Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
Believing that kids learn best when they’re not stuck behind desks in boring classrooms, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School created $500,000 open-concept flex spaces in the lower school.
Atlanta Science Festival
A smartphone, a tasty beer, and a drum concert by a musician with a prosthetic arm: All brought to you by . . . science.
The Creatives Project
You don’t need to be a Rockefeller to fund the arts. Founded by photographer Neda Abghari in 2011, the Creatives Project underwrites emerging artists and provides children with arts enrichment missing from schools.
Science of Fun
Instead of dance or music, Science of Fun offers STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) afternoon programs and summer camps to kids as young as five.
MUST Ministries
As unemployment surged during the Great Recession, Marietta-based MUST Ministries responded with nuts-and-bolts job training. MUST is the only nonprofit of its type to have alliances with OSHA and the National Safety Council for certification for specialized jobs like forklift operation.
Adam Marcus
In his day job, Adam Marcus directs a research laboratory focused on cancer biology at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute.
Culturally Relevant Computing Lab
Students who want to join Kinnis Gosha’s computing lab at Morehouse College can’t just work on their own projects; they must agree to be ambassadors for science and technology on campus and in the community.
Capitol City Opera
Give them a chance and kids love opera. Really. Capitol City Opera stages performances for as many as 20,000 students at dozens of schools every year.
Community Guilds’ STE(A)M truck
With all the focus on STEM education, one piece seems to be missing: training for kids who might not work in labs but want to do something hands-on.
Kennesaw State University’s Campus Awareness, Resource, & Empowerment Center
Georgia is now one of ten states identified by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth for having a higher-education network to combat collegiate homelessness.
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