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 [...]
Grace Place for Children and Families Board of Directors is honored to announce the appointment of Dr. Timothy B. Ferguson as Executive Director of Grace Place, effective July 1, 2015. Dr. Ferguson is currently the Executive Director for Student Related Services with the Lee County School District, overseeing Exceptional Student Education, Intervention Programs and Student [...]
Each year Grace Place's AP Leadership Program's students and staff attend Riverside Retreat Center near La Belle, Florida. It is a highly anticipated event that proves year after year to be well attended by our high school AP Leadership students. Last Saturday, the AP Leadership students spent a portion of their spring break at the [...]
Give Where You Live 30!, the inaugural online giving initiative is less than a week away! Beginning next Tuesday, March 3 at noon and ending at 11:59 a.m. on Wednesday, March 4 you can help support our mission of putting faith into action by providing pathways out of poverty by educating children and families. [...]
On March 3-4, 2015 you have an opportunity to support Grace Place by participating in a new and exciting giving initiative called, Give Where You Live 30!, Collier County's largest one day online giving event. Thanks to Community Foundation of Collier County and Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, Give Where You Live 30 features a [...]
Grace Place AP Leaders, Yesica and Alex, and Don Grandi, Grace Place Board Member at the 2015 Meet the Kids Day The Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF,) founders of the Naples Winter Wine Festival and one of the country's premier wine fundraisers, kicked-off this year's Festival with its Meet the Kids Day! The [...]
Grace Place Employees at 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Workshop At Grace Place for Children and Families our employees strongly believe in the power of education - and that does not end with our students. This week our employees began the new year participating in a two-day workshop on the highly-acclaimed [...]
"Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give." - Dr. Ben Carson While you grant your friends, families and co-workers' wishes this holiday season, please consider giving a gift that will make our children and families' lives better and brighter for years to come by giving the gift of education today. [...]
It's #GIVINGTUESDAY We just celebrated a day for giving thanks. When counting your blessings did you remember to count your education among them? Literacy is such a basic ability for many of us that we forget for many in this world it is a privilege. There are roughly 774 million people in the [...]