Mi Escuela Montessori’s Brain-building Beginnings: Birth to Four Scholarship Program Receives $2,500 GiveWell Community Foundation Grant
[Lakeland, FL] – [11/03/2025] – Mi Escuela Montessori recently received a $2,500 Impact Polk grant on behalf of the George W. Jenkins Fund within GiveWell Community Foundation (GWCF). This grant will support Mi Escuela Montessori’s Brain-building Beginnings: Birth to Four Scholarship Program. The funding is part of GWCF’s recent Impact Polk 2025 grant cycle, which awarded a total of $665,933.73 to 92 nonprofit organizations. Impact Polk is GWCF’s annual competitive, donor-dir
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United Way of Central Florida and the George Jenkins Foundation Award $20,000 Youth Opportunity Grant to Mi Escuela Montessori
Lakeland, FL — 11/03/2025 — Mi Escuela Montessori is honored to announce that it has been awarded a $20,000 Youth Opportunity Grant from the United Way of Central Florida (UWCF) and the George Jenkins Foundation in support of its Project CONNECT initiative. This competitive grant program received a substantial number of outstanding applications from across Central Florida, and UWCF was able to fund only about one-third of the proposals submitted. Mi Escuela Montessori is pro
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Healthy Eating, Healthy Learning: A Schoolwide Effort to Nourish Every Child
Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/food-and-drinks-inside-the-carton-box-6590920/ As we celebrate World Healthy Eating Day , we’re reminded that not every child has that opportunity. According to recent reports, nearly 15% of Polk County residents — more than 110,000 people — live with food insecurity, including tens of thousands of children  ( Polk Vision, 2024 ). At our school, over 30% of students qualify for SNAP benefits , and we know many families m
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