Summer programs started this week! The first week of Academy of Leaders Summer Program involved collaboration with the Community School of Naples (CSN). The CSN high school students created a lesson plan for the week and instructed and assisted in all classes. Each day academic enrichment activities in reading, math and technology were based around [...]
Our Grace Place team has worked with staff from Florida VPK and Head Start to identify 35 children determined as "not yet ready for kindergarten" for an eight-week Kindergarten Readiness course. The Course is part of our Bright Beginnings program for parent and child and focuses on key kindergarten readiness skills such as writing, letter [...]
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." -Dorothy Canfield Fisher Grace Place has seen many graduations in the last two weeks. We graduated 210 K-8th grade students from our Academy of Leaders after-school program, 20 high school AP Leadership students, 200 Beginnings 101 students, 50 Mom [...]
Bargain Box in Naples opened their doors and their hearts to Grace Place for Children and Families’ soon-to-be high school grads for a special congratulatory graduation gift last week! They allowed the students to fill one bag with items for college, complimentary. This year, Grace Place’s AP Leaders boast a 100 percent graduation rate with [...]
The third annual A Swing of Grace golf outing brought in $100,000! The funds raised set a record for the event, surpassing its cumulative total from the first two years. "This year's event was really fantastic. The timing was smooth and kept a good pace. It was well organized and I especially enjoyed hearing from [...]
2014 NCEF funding, expand programs
We are pleased to announce Grace Place recently accepted a $79,000 grant from the Naples Children Education Foundation (NCEF) for its high school AP Leadership program. This is the first year Grace Place has received funds from the Naples Wine Festival. The AP Leadership program at Grace Place works to break the cycle of poverty [...]
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We may have some budding novelist here at Grace Place! We want to congratulate our AP Leaders Patricia and Anissa. These promising young ladies recently accepted their awards for first and second place at the local level of the 2013-2014 Optimist International Essay Contest. Our AP Leadership Program Coordinator, Mary LeVine, was informed of the [...]
MAKE IT A SUMMER YOU'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER; MAKE AN IMPACT. Two-thirds of the ninth grade reading achievement gap can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities during the elementary school years; nearly one-third of the gap is already present when children begin school (John Hopkins School of Education Journal, 2010). College Mission Interns [...]