Mi Escuela Montessori’s Brain-building Beginnings: Birth to Three Scholarship Program Receives $10,000 GiveWell Community Foundation Grant

[Lakeland, FL] – [8/21/2023] – Mi Escuela Montessori recently received a $10,000 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 Three Scholarship Program. The funding is part of GWCF’s recent Impact Polk 2023 grant cycle, which awarded a total of $750,523 to 90 nonprofit organizations. Impact Polk is GWCF’s annual competitive, donor-directed grant program with the goal of addressing community needs throughout Polk County. Impact Polk grants often support a broad range of needs, such as animal welfare, arts and culture, education, and health and human services. To learn more about this grant cycle, please visit impactpolk.org. 

The Impact Polk funds awarded will provide scholarships for infant, toddler or three-year-old students who qualify for subsidized child care through the School Readiness Program of the Early Learning Coalition of Polk. Families must have an income below the poverty line and must be working or in school for at least 20 hours a week. The School Readiness voucher will determine what co-pay the family can financially afford to pay and will subsidize the balance, however because the voucher only covers 62% of the tuition.  The scholarship will cover the balance. 

The Brain-building Beginnings: Birth to Three Scholarship Program was developed to support low-wage earning families in providing a quality educational foundation for their children.  The dual language program at Mi Escuela Montessori is a learning-based, bilingual, language-rich program with a well-supported educational approach to helping young children acquire fundamental skills and abilities and hitting developmental milestones on time. Students are taught independence and self-care. They are supported in developing motor skills and vocabulary in both English and Spanish. They are in a warm and nurturing environment with a low ratio of adults to children.
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