education
About Us
| Pip Start Master Builder Pip Start’s objective is to nurture young people by teaching them essential life skills, helping them to build character and by working to improve academic performance particularly in math, engineering and science. |
| Heart House North @ The Vintage Park Learning Center More than ever before, children are coming home from school to empty homes. Heart House North offers a free after-school program dedicated to providing a safe haven and academic support to low-income children. |
| For the Children School Supplier Each year, many Central Texas children start school without the supplies they need to do the work. For the Children provides free school supplies to thousands of elementary school students from low income households. |
| 4–H Capital SPARKS 4-H Capital’s SPARKS program provides extra-curricular educational opportunities in science and technology to children from elementary and middle schools in low-income and limited-resource areas of Austin. |
| Reading is Fundamental Family Fun Nights For children in economically disadvantaged surroundings, learning to read can be difficult. Family Fun Nights is a literacy program that focuses on showing parents how to create print rich environments in their homes. |
| Reach Out and Read ROR for Infants in Clinics Reach Out and Read promotes literacy by bringing books and advice about the importance of reading into the pediatric exam room. Medical staff also give books to children at visits from six months of age to five years. |
| Communities in Schools X-Y Zone Male Involvement at Johnston High School; Crocket High School; Lanier High School One in three Central Texas ninth graders does not go on to graduate from high school. To help young men, aged 13 to 17, stay in school, the X-Y Zone empowers and guides them and helps them to develop leadership skills. |
| Assistance League of Austin Operation School Bell Operated by the Assistance League of Austin, Operation School Bell provides children with enough clothing to be able to wear something fresh to school every day as well as essential school supplies such as backpacks. |
| Keep Austin Beautiful Green Teens To raise environmental awareness among young people, Green Teens utilizes the green space at the Brown, Alamo and Montopolis recreation centers in East Austin to introduce teenagers to the natural environment. |
| Austin Partners in Education Tech Corp Program Austin Partners in Education’s goal is to help students gain the technological and academic skills and the self-confidence they need to become successful learners, while reaching their potential in the community. |
| Girlstart Saturday Camps for Girls There has been a decline in the number of girls, particularly minority girls from disadvantaged backgrounds, in computer programs since the 1980s. To reverse this trend, Girlstart was founded in 1997. |
| College Forward East Austin College Prep Seeking to dramatically improve the college-going rate for low-income students by equalizing access to higher education, College Forward provides the support and assistance needed to apply to college and earn degrees. |
| Heart House South @ Trails in the Park More than ever before, children are coming home from school to empty homes. Heart House South offers a free after-school program dedicated to providing a safe haven and academic support to low-income children. |
| Austin Children’s Museum Family Learning Nights The museum believes every child deserves educational opportunities beyond those the schools can offer. It provides some of those opportunities by creating unique learning experiences for children and families. |
| Jacob Fontaine Museum After-school History for Youth Much of what historically made East Austin unique is being lost as fewer older residents are around to pass on the oral history of the area. The Jacob Fontaine Museum is involving young people in preserving that history. |
| Outreach Productions Puppet Theaters Outreach Productions is dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged youth, particularly those living in historically impoverished areas, through creative learning through literature brought to life in puppet shows. |
| True Light Day Care Center Technology for Youth The True Light Day Care Center’s technology program operates all year and remains open on weekends and school holidays. Youth use the center to complete homework, type reports and surf the internet for “child-friendly” activities. |
| Austin ISD Widen Early Learning Program As stay-at-home parents are becoming less common, early learning programs are playing an important role in the education process. The Widen program is helping to overcome a shortage of such programs for minority mothers in Southeast Austin. |
| World Preparatory Youth Global Citizen Young people are growing up in an increasingly global context as new technologies continue to make the world a smaller place. This program helps Austin youth better understand their role as global citizens. |
| Lasting Legacies East Austin History Since segregation ended, much of what made East Austin a unique community has worn away as neighborhoods have blended together. This project actively involves students in the process of becoming local historians. |
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- Glimmer TV: Badgerdog Literary Publishing
- To reduce the academic achievement gap for children from low-income families, Badgerdog Literary Publishing is teaching creative writing at schools throughout East and South Austin.
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- Glimmer TV: True Light Day Care
- Each year, the True Light Day Care Center provides affordable, high quality child care to hundreds of Austin families placing special emphasis on families headed by teenagers and unskilled single mothers.
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- Glimmer TV: Operation School Bell
- For more than two decades, Operation School Bell has been helping many of Austin's at-risk children to attend school in nice new clothes. A Glimmer of Hope has been supporting OSB since 2005.