Our
Mission
To
provide Stepping Stones for Success through education
of children and families who have limited opportunities.
Our Preschool
Providing a preschool program;
tuition free, high quality, developmentally appropriate and comprehensive, to
create success for children at risk of school failure due to literacy issues.
Family
Literacy
To ensure family
literacy and success of the parents, with their children and in the community,
by requiring them to attend tuition free adult education classes, requiring
parental classroom participation, and providing tuition free child care and
enrichment for the siblings of our preschool students.
Community
To further ensure success by providing our preschool children with
meals in partnership with the hosting school district, partnering our
preschool program with colleges to assist family literacy by providing
adult education, and to reach as many preschool children as possible.
Success
To reward our former preschoolers who are now high school
graduates, and continue to promote family literacy, by enabling access
to college through our college scholarship fund.
Program
Values
Ensuring Access to Education
Our
legacy past, our present, and our future are to provide equal opportunity
for a preschool education to all 3 and 4 year old children, and support
family literacy through adult education, regardless of economic status.
Volunteerism
Our inspired community volunteers, who participate
through foundation membership, fund raising activities or in the preschool
classroom, are vital to the success and welfare of the foundation's preschool
children.
Parental
Involvement
Our requirement that parents of our
preschool students attend adult education and parenting skills classes,
providing them with lifelong learning opportunities. Our requirement
that parents volunteer in the preschool classroom and allow home visits
by the teacher, underscores the importance of education and family literacy
to the parents.
Children!
Our providing tuition free child
care and enrichment for the siblings of the preschool students allows
the parents to fulfill the participation requirements of the family literacy
component, and demonstrates the importance of education to the children.
Community
Partnerships
Our individual and corporate sponsored
support through grants, financial aid or "in kind" donations, assures
the continuing success of our preschool program. We also value all other
existing high quality preschool programs that will prepare the children
for school success.
We thank
you for investing in our children's futures. We assure you that you
will make a difference for our children, their families, and the
community as a whole.
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updated on:
5 February, 2008
