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Our Work & Results

The Education Fund's first program in 1985 awarded small mini-grants to support classroom projects for under-funded teachers. Two decades and more than 1,000 projects later, our programs have made a difference in the lives of more than 500,000 students and 22,000 teachers throughout Miami-Dade public schools.

In addition to awards of almost $2 million in grants to teachers, The Ed Fund's initiatives have contributed $5.6 million in free classroom supplies, 10,000 computers to parents and students, 1.2 million trilingual Parent Resource Guides, thousands of hours in educator training and numerous other efforts that target critical needs during this critical time.

The objective of each Ed Fund program is to support and promote quality public education for every child in Miami-Dade public schools by providing teachers and students with resources they need to succeed in the classroom.

The Education Fund is making a difference in the lives of children:

  • $5.6 million in free supplies for classrooms
  • $1.9 million in individual classroom grants to teachers
  • 228,000 hours of one-on-one tutoring for students struggling with reading
  • 10,000 refurbished computers plus internet access and training for schoolchildren and their families
  • 1,200,000 trilingual Parent Resource Guides to help parents get involved in our public schools
  • $450,000 in funding for visual arts programs in our public schools
  • 4,216 hours of in-class mentoring to help new teachers survive and thrive during the first year of teaching
  • 7-million media impressions in a campaign to educate the public on teacher recruitment and retention
  • $3.4 million leveraged in leadership training to help assistant principals assume the role of principal in the hardest-to-staff schools
  • 211 tons of computer hardware diverted from Miami-Dade landfills
  • $30 million-plus raised to benefit public education