As you may know, Grace Place is a volunteer driven organization. This means we rely on our generous change makers to help in our mission to provide pathways out of poverty by educating children and families. As a small recognition of these amazing people, we will be highlighting individuals once a month in a new [...]

1) Educational benefits Gardening offers hands-on, experiential learning opportunities in a wide array of disciplines, including the natural and social sciences, math, language arts (e.g., through garden journaling), visual arts (e.g., through garden design and decoration) and nutrition. With recent concern over relatively weak science and math skills among American children, the need for innovation [...]

A firm and healthy family support system promotes a successful transition to, and completion of, college for a student. The AP Leadership Program requires a family commitment, which includes specific responsibilities of involvement in the Program, such as parental attendance, participation and volunteering. Last week, the AP Leadership Program welcomed the parents of our AP [...]

Daily voting has begun for the Harry Chapin Food Bank to receive a Walmart $60,000 grant! As a partner of Harry Chapin Food Bank, a portion of the grant will go to Grace Place to purchase a new refrigerator for our Friday Food Pantry.  With this new refrigerator we will be able to offer more healthy [...]

Hannah Vet - Volunteer Coordinator We welcome Hannah Vet as our new Volunteer Coordinator. Hannah comes to us from Big Brothers Big Sisters where she served as Mentor Manager. At Grace Place, Hannah is responsible for developing and implementing an action plan for volunteerism and coordinating volunteers to enhance the mission of Grace Place. To [...]

This summer we put out a call to fund a need. We set a goal to raise $8,000 to send 350 Grace Place students back to school with the supplies they need to be ready for the new school year. Once again because of you, our loyal supporters, we succeeded! Because of YOU, 350 students [...]

Grace Place worked with a community partner to serve as a conduit between an exciting new opportunity and our students. Chuck Garrity, a long time Grace Place enthusiast, recently visited campus to present two MicroGrants to select Grace Place alums. Yazmin Hinojosa, a single mother of two, has been involved with Grace Place for many [...]

Alex at his internship at Algenol "Working for a Bio-Tech company is definitely not something that the majority of teenagers will ever do; I get to set up experiments for ACTUAL scientists!" -Alex, AP Leader We are getting reports back from many of our rising senior AP Leaders on the exciting opportunities they [...]

This week takes our Academy of Leaders Summer Program to The Von Liebig Art Center for week long collaboration with Naples Art Association. Students are enjoying painting, pottery and craft classes instructed by some of the community's finest art educators! THE BENEFITS: The arts have the power to influence and mold a child's development on [...]