The Education Fund transforms the lives of hundreds of thousands of children by working side-by-side with the private sector to improve local public schools in Miami-Dade County and ensure every student has a chance to succeed.
Our Impact by the Numbers:
310,000+ Students empowered annually.
20,000+ Educators supported across 470+ schools.
We’re just getting started. With your continued support, we are committed to driving excellence in public education for the next 40 years and beyond.
The Education Fund makes a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of students:
- $90 million raised for public schools
- $29 million+ in free supplies for classrooms, benefitting 4.1 million+ students, provided by our free supplies warehouse, new teacher satellite location, and new Southwest Miami-Dade location and professional development center
- $3.1 million+ granted to teachers to foster student achievement in 5,400+ classrooms
- $1.1 million+ raised for public schools' visual arts programs
- 73% improvement in students' math knowledge, and 65% increased science achievement obtained via STEM lessons provided in outdoor eco-labs
- 34% increase in college enrollment attained as part of a national demonstration project
- 303,000+ Food Forest harvest bags provided to low-income students’ families
- 45,000+ teacher visits to our free supplies warehouse
- 3,000+ business professionals recruited to step into the shoes of a teacher for a day, providing lessons including STEM and financial literacy to 84,000+ students
- 10,500+ computers were provided in student homes, plus 500 in classrooms.
- 1.2 million trilingual Parent Resource Guides distributed
- 228,000 hours of one-on-one tutoring for students struggling with reading
- 4,216 hours of in-class mentoring for first-year teachers
- $820,000 in grants for dropout prevention programs
- $3.4 million leveraged for one of the nation's most comprehensive leadership development programs for secondary school administrators
- 211 tons of computer hardware diverted from Miami-Dade landfills
