DSVP Partner teams are working with four Investment Committee finalists – Jubilee Community Center, Real School Gardens, Trinity River Mission and Vickery Meadow Learning Center – on Engagement Strategies and Final Presentations. The Investee Selection meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 30th from 4-8pm (RSVP here) and is open to the entire DSVP Partnership! Read below to learn a little more about our finalists...
Jubilee Community Center serves 1,027 children and 173 adults daily through programming at OM Roberts Elementary School, Davids’ Place Head Start, an afterschool program, and at ESL, literacy, and computer classes. The mission of Jubilee is to be a catalyst for community renewal and enrichment to the South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood, with special emphasis on comprehensive, community revitalization and the education of children and adults.
www.jubileecenter.org
Lead Partner: Rod Armstrong
Real School Gardens is a grassroots gardening program that serves children 41,000 children annually in low income, urban neighborhoods by partnering with elementary school communities to design, install, and use outdoor classrooms (gardens) to improve academic achievement and promote healthy development. The mission of Real School Gardens is to cultivate relationships with elementary schools to create learning gardens that raise hope, spark imaginations, and connect children to nature.
www.realschoolgardens.org
Lead Partner: Robin Minick
Trinity River Mission is a volunteer-based community learning center that serves 450 children per year. Trinity River Mission promotes literacy, encourages academic success and develops effective life skills among disadvantaged youth in West Dallas, in the belief that education connects us to life’s possibilities.
www.trinityrivermission.org
Lead Partner: Jim Pasant
Jubilee Community Center serves 1,027 children and 173 adults daily through programming at OM Roberts Elementary School, Davids’ Place Head Start, an afterschool program, and at ESL, literacy, and computer classes. The mission of Jubilee is to be a catalyst for community renewal and enrichment to the South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood, with special emphasis on comprehensive, community revitalization and the education of children and adults.
www.jubileecenter.org
Lead Partner: Rod Armstrong
Real School Gardens is a grassroots gardening program that serves children 41,000 children annually in low income, urban neighborhoods by partnering with elementary school communities to design, install, and use outdoor classrooms (gardens) to improve academic achievement and promote healthy development. The mission of Real School Gardens is to cultivate relationships with elementary schools to create learning gardens that raise hope, spark imaginations, and connect children to nature.
www.realschoolgardens.org
Lead Partner: Robin Minick
Trinity River Mission is a volunteer-based community learning center that serves 450 children per year. Trinity River Mission promotes literacy, encourages academic success and develops effective life skills among disadvantaged youth in West Dallas, in the belief that education connects us to life’s possibilities.
www.trinityrivermission.org
Lead Partner: Jim Pasant
Vickery Meadow Learning Center is dedicated to improving English literacy levels among non-English speaking adults and children by providing programs in communication and life skills. Vickery Meadow serves 725 adults and 200 children annually and does so in the belief that the ability to understand, read, write and speak English contributes to independence, productivity and the overall well-being of our students, their families and the greater community.
http://www.vmlc.org/
http://www.vmlc.org/
Lead Partner: Elaine Bernstein
Once again all DSVP Partners are welcome to attend this event. Please let us know if you will be able to attend. We look forward to seeing everyone and choosing who the next Investee will be!
Once again all DSVP Partners are welcome to attend this event. Please let us know if you will be able to attend. We look forward to seeing everyone and choosing who the next Investee will be!
