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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:

  • $86 million raised for public schools

  • $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

  • $3.1+ million granted to teachers to foster student achievement in 5,400+ classrooms  
  • $1.1 million+ raised for public schools' visual arts programs
  • 75% improvement in students' math knowledge, and 71% 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
  • 278,500+ Food Forest harvest bags provided to low-income students’ families
  • 44,150+ 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 
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