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 [...]
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 [...]