Immigrant Education

We are a nation in educational crisis, particularly when it comes to immigrant students. Nearly 50% of Latino students fail to graduate from high schools and colleges. Efforts to solve this problem focus on improving schools and instruction with little attention given to the role of the Latino family.

Our Foundation’s answer to this crisis was to establish the Immigrant Family Education Fund. To learn more, click here

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PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT:
In 2007 La Vida, an after school center founded by Bob Hildreth, designed a competition for the highest performing Latino students and their families in Lynn, MA, to join a college preparation/scholarship program. Families had to agree to contribute fifty dollars a month into a back account to be matched by the program until at graduation the student would receive a $4000 scholarship. Forty-five families are now registered in the savings program. Many of the parents are also enrolled in La Vida’s ESL, citizenship, and literacy classes.

In designing its programs, the Foundation seeks the collaboration of immigrant families on multiple levels. Projects are designed to foster family involvement through both payments and decision making around tutoring, after school programs, school selection, and scholarships.

Our past projects include
   • Construction and funding of an early childhood learning school,
   • Creation, direction, and expansion of an after-school/remedial center,
   • Development of a college preparatory/scholarship program,
   • Overhaul of a 120 year old ship into a floating school (Schooner Ernestina),

For media coverage of our education support efforts, click here

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