Miami Beach Senior High College Tour 2016. Go Hi Tides!
For 40 years, The Education Fund has been transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of children by working side-by-side with the private sector to improve our public schools and ensure every student has a chance to succeed.
Our work reaches all 20,000+ educators in 470+ schools and makes a difference in the lives of 330,000+ students each year.
And we’re just getting started...With your continued support, we’re committed to driving excellence in public schools today and for the next 40 years.
The Education Fund makes a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of students:
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$86 million raised for public schools
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278,500+ harvest bags sent home with families served by Food Forests for Schools
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10,500+ computers provided to student homes, plus 500 in classrooms.
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1.2 million trilingual Parent Resource Guides distributed
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$3.1+ million in individual classroom grants to help teachers foster student achievement
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34% increase in college enrollment attained as part of a national demonstration project
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$26+ million in free supplies for classrooms, benefitting 3.8+ million students , provided by our free supplies warehouse, new teacher satellite location and new Southwest Miami-Dade location and professional development center
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$1.1 million for public schools' visual arts programs
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228,000 hours of one-on-one tutoring for students struggling with reading
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4,216 hours of in-class mentoring for first-year teachers
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$820,000 in grants for dropout-prevention programs
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$3.4 million leveraged for one of the nation's most comprehensive leadership development programs for secondary school administrators
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44,150+ teacher visits to our free supplies warehouse
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211 tons of computer hardware diverted from Miami-Dade landfills
