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 [...]
Hannah Vet - Volunteer Coordinator We welcome Hannah Vet as our new Volunteer Coordinator. Hannah comes to us from Big Brothers Big Sisters where she served as Mentor Manager. At Grace Place, Hannah is responsible for developing and implementing an action plan for volunteerism and coordinating volunteers to enhance the mission of Grace Place. To [...]
This summer we put out a call to fund a need. We set a goal to raise $8,000 to send 350 Grace Place students back to school with the supplies they need to be ready for the new school year. Once again because of you, our loyal supporters, we succeeded! Because of YOU, 350 students [...]