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 [...]
Photo Credit: Dania Maxwell, Naples Daily News THANK YOU FOR CELEBRATING WITH US! Grace Place would like to thank everyone that attended Tuesday's Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Van Domelen Education Center - the cornerstone building of our Campus Expansion Campaign. More than 150 individuals, undeterred by the weather, celebrated this Grace Place milestone. [...]
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 [...]