Sentences with phrase «nonprofit school founded»

Isthmus Montessori Academy (IMA), 1402 Pankratz St., is a private, nonprofit school founded in 2012 that wants to become part of the district.

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The business strategy that Mathile details in the book is also taught at Aileron, the nonprofit school for entrepreneurs that he founded in 1996.

Musk made a name for himself by founding The Kitchen, a restaurant that emphasizes community through food and its attendant nonprofit, which helps build school gardens.

Story Pirates Founded in 2003 by a group of Northwestern grads, this New York City — and Los Angeles — based nonprofit provides after - school writing and drama programs to underserved schools and produces stage shows for the public.

So in October 2008, he founded Pencils of Promise, an education nonprofit that's now built more than 200 schools across the globe.

The shooting, which resulted in 17 fatalities, was not an isolated incident — nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety found that there were 160 incidences of gunfire on school campuses from 2013 - 15, with almost 50 percent taking place on college and university campuses.

Old - school government agencies and government - funded projects that mentor business owners must prove their worth, or be de-funded — so the money can go to the NGOs and nonprofits that have already found ways to combine scale, efficiency, and positive outcomes with cost reductions.

In 2009, Chef Ann founded the Food Family Farming Foundation (now the Chef Ann Foundation), a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh, healthy food.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were avaiSchool Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were avaischool districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

In 2009, Ann founded the nonprofit Chef Ann Foundation (CAF) to focus on solutions to the school food crisis.

In 2009, Chef Ann founded the Food Family Farming Foundation (now the Chef Ann Foundation), a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh, healthy food.

Without cancer, I would not be going to school for what I am majoring in, I would not have the aspirations of working for a cancer related nonprofit, and I would not have found my Kesem family.

In its recent report, Still Too Fat to Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk food vending machines in schools as a contributor to this problem.

Sections of Harris Field, a heavily - used park sandwiched between Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, were found to have four times the federally - established legal limit of lead contamination for public play areas, according to documents obtained by the Norwood News with the help of the nonprofit New York City Park Advocates.

Both SUNY Poly and the nonprofit entities that own its real estate have been seeking to stabilize their finances following last year's arrest and resignation of former SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros, who founded the high - tech school.

Today, Bullen is marrying Laura Reeder, founding executive director of Partners for Arts Education, a Syracuse - based nonprofit that partners schools with artists and cultural agencies.

Its founding president and CEO is Alain Kaloyeros, who in February stepped down from the two nonprofit development boards that worked on the school's projects.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

We've got stress, burnout, obesity, and this leads to mental and physical problems,» says Chi Kim, chief strategy officer of Pure Edge, Inc., an East Coast - based nonprofit founded in 2011 to offer wellness programs in schools and communities.

So she was thrilled to find the national nonprofit HealthCorps, which places young people in high schools around the country for two - year terms as health & wellness coordinators.

Program at Khan Academy, located in California's Silicon Valley, where Harvard Business School graduate Sal Khan founded a nonprofit educational company to teach myriad subjects through mini-lectures that get posted online.

Finally, you may want to check out the Institutes & Field Schools page, where you'll find an A-to-Z list of nonprofit organizations that offer K - 12 school programs, teacher training, field seminars, and other educational experiences in cooperation with specific parks throughout the country.

Nonprofits, including the Children's Scholarship Fund, founded in 1998, have provided vouchers to help low - income families afford private schools, and some are using the money to home school.

Not long afterward, Wood left Microsoft to found Books for Nepal, which rapidly developed into Room to Read, an international literacy nonprofit organization that builds bilingual libraries, schools, and computer labs in developing countries.

The next three most - common constructive responses, found in seven locations, are partnerships with successful nonprofit CMOs or for - profit charter school operators, education management organizations (EMOs), to operate schools; the replication of successful charter school practices; and an increase in active efforts to market district offerings to students and families (see Table 1).

Maycock's solution was to found a nonprofit organization that combines rigorous, standards - aligned assessments; data - analysis training and coaching for school leaders and teachers; guided peer review; and networking across schools.

Education Week, published by the 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), was founded in 1981 to serve the public interest by providing independent, nonpartisan reporting and analysis on American precollegiate education for school leaders, other educators, policymakers, and members of the general public.

In founding New Leaders for New Schools — a nonprofit organization that recruits and develops outstanding new principals for urban schools — our team discovered a vacuum of research on meaningful assessment for schools and prinSchools — a nonprofit organization that recruits and develops outstanding new principals for urban schools — our team discovered a vacuum of research on meaningful assessment for schools and prinschools — our team discovered a vacuum of research on meaningful assessment for schools and prinschools and principals.

The school is part of Achievement First, a nonprofit charter school management system founded in 2003 by two University of North Carolina graduates (Class of 1994), Doug McCurry and Dacia Toll.

students who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career, whether nonprofit or for - profit, by providing important tools and services to schools and districts, will develop a much deeper understanding of the systems and processes that exist in K — 12 education that they want to improve or replace, and are better at finding points of leverage that will make a big difference for educators and students.

Denise Moser has founded a nonprofit organization, Functional Fitness for Kids, Inc., which she hopes will spread the free, afterschool boot - camp model to middle schools throughout the country.

Later Taylor founded multiple education - related organizations including Future Generations and Future Generations Graduate School, an international nonprofit geared toward community - led development that now serves 19 countries.

In Chile, students are found in four types of schools: elite schools that do not accept vouchers and charge considerably more than the voucher; for - profit voucher schools; nonprofit (usually religious) voucher schools; and municipal schools.

We are a nonprofit school - reform organization that founded these schools in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

He had castigated for - profit charter managers, but the year after his passing the first nonprofit charter management network, Aspire Public Schools, was founded by a former California district superintendent named Don Shalvey.

In 2010, I founded 4.0 Schools in New Orleans as a nonprofit «incubator» of new ideas for doing school.

TNTP is a national nonprofit organization, founded in 1997, that helps school districts recruit AC teachers.

The nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bSchools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bschools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps by 2018.

What the former teacher and student enrichment coordinator at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School in Somerville, Mass., found was inspiration in the form of Families United in Educational Leadership (FUEL), a Boston - area nonprofit.

Last weekend, at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning, surrounded by educators, representatives from the nonprofit and business worlds, global education experts, academics, and education advocates of all stripes, I found it inspiring how committed the group as a whole was to not just improving family engagement in schools, but expanding engagement beyond the family, to the community in general.

Doug Lemov trains educators at Uncommon Schools, the nonprofit school management organization he helped found.

Larry Sand, a former LAUSD teacher who founded California Teachers Empowerment Network, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that seeks to educate teachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liabilities.

Founded in 2012, Student Voice is a student - run nonprofit dedicated to strengthening the student movement by empowering high school students to take action on the issues that most impact their education.

A recent poll conducted by the Leadership Conference Fund, a nonprofit civil rights group based in Washington, D.C., found that 86 percent of Latino families said their child's report card topped the list in judging school quality.

These findings come from a 2016 survey of more than 1,300 public school parents nationwide by Learning Heroes, a nonprofit that aims to help parents get involved in their children's learning.

Founded in 2012, this DC - centered nonprofit «dedicated to strengthening the student movement by empowering high school students to take action on the issues that most impact their education» lists no donors on its website.

For example, a report released recently (by the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group) found that more than 20 percent of all California charter schools have enrollment policies that violate state and federal law.

According to new findings released by YouthTruth, a national nonprofit that harnesses students» perceptions to help educators identify needs and accelerate improvements, 32 percent of high school students do not feel positively about their teachers» content knowledge of the subject matter being taught.

CSDC's nonprofit charter school clients are the very epitome of entrepreneurial small businesses founded and operated by community - focused leaders.

In 1995, we were founded as an independent 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, the Bay Area Coalition for Essential Schools, or BayCES.