Letsfund.it brings crowd sourcing to the community by teaming nonprofits into the project development fray.
It provides a domain where fans can discover how inspiring students to discover the beauty of Nature and the power of the written/spoken word can now gain friends to improve school performance and student outcomes.
NEO's LA Riverbank- Aloha from the HeART Social Media Campaign launches this week online using this new tool set to fund at risk arts programs that use STEM to build school success. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math=STEM)
This California 501 c 3, New Education Options, Inc. (NEO)has just launched a social media next 50 days (i.e. the holiday through year-end to Valentine's Day) to help others organize their march of time with a beautiful new year's calendar. With a drought across the Western States, this beautiful reminder of water, geography, and creatures can remind us of Nature's fragile web.
The goal to help young children read, think, relate, and communicate by learning new words. Each donation will go to provide supplemental services arts and reading development programs for PK-5th grade.
The web offering will serves three fold: 1) providing failing students exercise in English to catch up in academics through California's standards and rubrics to accelerate vocabulary and so comprehension; 2) enable program development, staff building, and resources; 3) matching funder requirements to receive federal or state or local funds.
By featuring Oahu's flora and fauna especially an island watershed in Dana Wellborn's DEW Drop Productions first title, (her "Aloha from the HeART" LA Riverbank Letsfund.it campaign,offering) NEO is telling the story of Kenneth Grahame's Riverbank and how the book and the Mindspan Project's initiative became WaterBuddy.
Launched on Christmas Eve, the program is linking new technologies to archives that allow the project to show its "chops", talk about Musical Linguistics, artists in the schools, and reach for music programs for youth in Los Angeles County's 3rd District.
Each $30.00 will underwrite one music and literacy development program for two San Fernando Valley Elementary Schools. These donations will underwrite WaterBuddy Programs at NOBLEKids Programs in Woodland Hills, and elsewhere and for Gault Elementary School in Lake Balboa.
Letsfund.it has provided a venue to revisit the California Arts Council Award from 2012-2013 and the numerous accomplishments of the founders, the school program, their concerts, their community outreach and awards.
NEO, Inc. conducts AB 1548 informed, arts integration STEM programs, that apply the Common Core Standards to enhance academics. Children with Science vocabulary can soar. They have a familiarity with sophisticated terms that are reinforced through enrichment services and group or solo academic inquiry.
Whether before anyone nearby knew about the WaterBuddy Program, Letsfund.it's IT supports finding friends, making friends, and a new kind of "spreading the news by word of mouth" via social media about the program that was inaccessible before.
Formed in 2002, the nonprofit now can tell a story about the children served now, its formation and history, ELL pedagogy, and its SFV 10 school project.
This Christmas from Google nonprofits, to Amazon Smile, to Twitter, to Letsfund.it, the WB Program is being exposed in a 50 day "Aloha from the HeART" project. At year end and year beginning it expects to give good cheer and motivation to children along LA's Riverbank while raising charitable donations.
In remembering the legacy of The Wind in the Willows (never out of print), the present First Family, President Theodore Roosevelt, Edith Roosevelt and the kids, and Los Angeles County's precious and irreplaceable resources along several watersheds, it's teaching many sciences and developing recreational readers.
Providing nonprofit leadership and training in technology through SEO tools, elements, archives, video, and copy, this NEO campaign assisted by donors, the Board, in put and planning with NOBLE, Inc., Principal Albion, and Millie's Restaurant is an act of community, ingenuity, and faith.
Dana Wellborn's images light the way to protecting our Riverbank and to appreciating Nature.
It highlights although these pictures speak loudly.....children begin recreational success at reading by learning words like crab, wave, surfer, weather, turtle, lizard, frond and others,.
Photos, films, artwork, or from field trips, students are familiarized with concepts necessary to understanding from experience.
When they learn about where they live and about habitat, they build a strong foundation from informal science to STEM.
From the Green Songbook to the Smithsonian Folkways collection, and other catalogs, Bo Lebo, Director and lead teacher uses stories, songs, mimicry to reach young hearts and minds.
Writing and exploration bridge the AATVC career cluster with the VAPA standards. Creativity and technology combine past vocational and academic distinctions into the classroom activities and aids teachers to try new ways to make Science fun and memorable through music, writing and brain targeted techniques and individual application.
By doing what nonprofits must to reach an audience and a funder base, NEO is learning about tools and maximizing its outreach.
In a city and county that has so many great nonprofits, so many people in need, and so many children who are failing to achieve and scared of testing, this is a wonderful platform (letsfund.it) to find the means to be of service.
Bringing crowd sourcing to small agencies is an innovation that can change the bottomline. It adds to work on the phone or on the web affordably.
The NEO Letsfund.it (The LA River Aloha from the HeART) Campaign is reaching out to make a difference with each dollar raised and each calendar that inspires and delights.
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STEM Info:
http://cslnet.org/ http://www.cde.ca.gov/pd/ca/sc/stemintrod.asp http://www.castemsummit.com/ NAMM Foundation working with the President's Committee:
http://www.pcah.gov/ Australia and California Approaches:
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/primary/hsie/crosscurriculum/environment/index.htm http://www.calepa.ca.gov/education/EEI/Curriculum/GradeK/K3a/K3aVA.pdf Nontraditional Education for Girls:
http://www.ngcproject.org/engaging-girls-stem http://cdefoundation.org/stemconference/ http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/10/17/for-these-schools-adding-arts-to-stem-boosts-curriculum.aspx