It’s another beautiful morning in Naples, Florida. Celia and I sit on a bench in the Grace Place playground as her three-year-old daughter, Jazmin, runs in circles around us. Our attention shifts as Jazmin begins to loudly sing her A, B, C’s while she skips along, first in English, then in Spanish. I examine Celia’s [...]
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Grace Place for Children and Families is looking for an Early Childhood Education Teacher Assistant for its three-year-old classroom. For more information, check out our listing on website.
In honor of #GivingTuesday, a special day designed to kick off the charitable season, you can help support the Grace Place team that works so hard to ensure the success of our organization’s programs and families through a gift to “Meet the Overhead” drive. Meet Helga Reinisch…our finance and data associate at Grace Place, who multi-tasks [...]
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, a special day designed to kick off the charitable season.This year you can help support the Grace Place team that works so hard to ensure the success of our organization’s programs and families through a gift to “Meet the Overhead” drive. Meet Helga Reinisch...our finance and data associate at Grace Place, who multi-tasks [...]
On June 3, the staff at Grace Place for Children and Families met to reflect on The Leader in Me insights gathered over the past school year and to discuss plans to implement those discoveries in the fall and beyond. The Leader in Me is a Franklin Covey program that follows a whole-school transformation model [...]
Naples, FL – April 25th – At Grace Place for Children and Families, twenty local philanthropists have fulfilled the $350,000 matching gift challenge that was recently offered by Mr. and Mrs. William Schoen to benefit the organization’s campus expansion campaign.Ultimately, the roughly 13,000 square foot campus at Grace Place is slated to expand to 30,000 [...]
Maria smiles as she places a few children’s books into her shopping cart. This will be the first year she reads Christmas stories to her two children Antonia (3) and Jose (5). When she enrolled Jose in the Bright Beginnings program at Grace Place for Children and Families a little over a year ago, Maria [...]
School may be out for summer, but the learning hasn’t stopped at Grace Place. Last week marked the beginning of the 2015 Academy of Leaders Summer Program for rising 1st through 8th graders, and Kindergarten Readiness for rising kindergartners. Academy of Leaders Summer Program: Elementary Academy of Leaders elementary age students spent a week at [...]
"I know that Grace Place is helping benefit the kids future, if I have a part in that it makes me feel like I have accomplished something." - Angel Flores Meet Angel Flores. Angel is a Grace Place volunteer and a student in our high school program, AP Leadership. Angel is 15 years old and [...]