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DeLaSalle North Catholic High School's mission is to serve a racially diverse community of capable, interested and motivated college-bound students, primarily from North /Outer-Northeast Portland who would not otherwise have access to an excellent, faith-based education.

Seeds in the Middle, named by fourth graders in central Brooklyn, inspires parents, educators, students and their community to access all opportunities beginning with improving their health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We are joyful, respectful, educational and engaging. We nurture the whole child. Our innovative strategy to fight obesity and combat health disparities initiates at schools. We weave proven programs into a comprehensive package to turn around ills driving down opportunity and advancement. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale disparities. Our pilot Hip2B Healthy schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with one of New York City's highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. Our programs are models for replication. We have run community farmers markets and founded Soccer for Harmony tournaments, inspiring social change through soccer. We are proud to boast that our focus 4th grade class test scores in 2012 surpassed the citywide average! At Seeds in the Middle, we partner with faculty. We teach how to grow, market, access and prepare nutritious food, how to exercise and engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our partners come from all walks of life: chefs, athletes, educators, artists, builders and more. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.

The Foundation is an independent, not-forprofit organization, whose purpose is to provide extended financial support to Saint Cassian School. Our goal is to provide the additional funds that may be needed to help ensure a superior educational experience at Saint Cassian School while supporting a Catholic school education within our Parish. The Foundation is an exempt charitable organization under section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Founded in 1950, Coast Episcopal School's purpose is to foster a life-long love of learning and to develop each student's potential: intellectually, creatively, emotionally, socially, physically, and spiritually, in preparation for college and life. The Gail Keenan Art Gallery furthers the mission of Coast Episcopal School: fostering a lifelong love of learning while enhancing our longstanding emphasis on both academic excellence and the arts. The mission of the art gallery is to accompany and enhance arts education at CES and its connection to the development of the whole child. The gallery provides a visual space for the students to nurture and express their artistic talents and "experience" themselves as creative contributors to our world. It serves as a teaching resource to enable students to make connections between art and life, while expanding learning opportunities through the robust visiting artists program. Through exhibiting works of regional artists, the gallery serves the community at large and increases awareness of the broad education offered at Coast Episcopal School. The Gail Keenan Art Gallery brings artists from local and regional areas to engage with the students allowing them to better understand themselves and to foster a lifelong appreciation for the arts.

It is the mission of AFPCS to ensure the achievement and success of every students through a technologically rich and individualized learning environment. Using the latest tools, including technology, research-based methods of instruction, and hands-on learning in the tradition of John Dewey, we aim to help our students and their families set and achieve ambitious educational and personal goals. We provide for students a rich, integrated curriculum, focusing on language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, art, technology, and physical education. We set high standards for all members of our community, students, teachers, parents and staff, and we provide the support necessary to attain those standards. We expect the highest code of conduct from everyone in our school, including respect for each other, honesty, integrity, personal responsibility, and the willingness to work hard to achieve the goals set for our students and ourselves.

The purpose of the Education Foundation of Eagle County is to support the creation and delivery of an excellent learning experience for students within the Eagle County public school system. The Education Foundation of Eagle County provides funding for tools, technology and staff within Eagle County Schools through public grants and private donations. EFEC works to provide sustainable funding sources through local and statewide legislative advocacy on K-12 education funding policy and mobilizes community engagement by recognizing excellence in teaching. The Public Education Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization established in 2001, now the Education Foundation of Eagle County (EFEC), has worked in partnership with Eagle County Schools to fund strategic initiatives and programs for quality education in Eagle County.

The mission of Concord Children's Center is to cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.

Urban Prairie Waldorf School educates the whole child fostering the intellect to identify problems, the creativity to find new solutions, and the will to put them into practice.