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Founded in 1952, Broadway Children's School of Oakland provides education programs for preschool age children and their parents. The school's play-based programs are designed to develop all aspects of a child's growth (social, emotional, physical, creative and intellectual) and to prepare children for kindergarten. BCSO is a Family-First school. We combine child-centered learning through creative play with parent enrichment that extends developmentally appropriate learning deep into the home. We then cultivate a committed community that offers families a bedrock of support, knowledge-sharing, and friendship.

The mission of Mar Vista Family Center (MVFC) is to provide low-income families with early childhood education, youth enrichment, and educational tools to create positive change in their lives and their community.  Every program adheres to the basic premise that it is critical to empower children, teens and adults to play vital and responsible roles -- as decision-makers, community leaders, mentors, classroom volunteers and fundraisers.

The Child Development Consortium of Los Angeles, Inc. helps children grow and develop to the best of their capabilities and puts them on a path to school readiness.

Pearl Buck Center offers people with various abilities and their families quality choices and supports to achieve their goals.

Maryvale's mission, inspired by the compassionate service of our Vincentian founders, faithful to Catholic social teaching rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the charism of the daughters of charity, is to heal, empower and educate children and families in order to instill hope for a more fulfilling future. We do this by providing residential, educational, mental health and community-based services in an environment of dignity, love and respect.

Provide childcare in a co-operative, non-threatening, multicultural environment without regards to race or socio-economic background.

Potomac Crescent Waldorf school is devoted to educating children according Rudolf Steiner's insights and pedagogy. We educate the whole child: head, heart, and hands. The individual child is at the center of all we do. In the pre-school we prepare the child for schoolwork by encouraging healthy play. In the grade school, our teachers aim to allow each child to grow gradually and naturally into the subjects they study, because then they will love what they learn. Committed to serve and reflect our locality of Northern Virginia near the District of Columbia, the faculty work together as colleagues to allow the Waldorf approach to provide each child with a future-oriented education, in which lasting capacities and skills will serve the student for life.

Founded in 1967, the North Huntington Beach Community Nursery School is a parent participation preschool with a philosophy based on the respect of children as competent and capable individuals. It offers a child-centered, play-based curriculum that provides daily opportunities to build, create, get messy and take risks. NHBCNS is a parent-participation program that allows families to grow, learn and be nurtured together. We have amazing indoor and outdoor environments filled with adventure, creativity, challenges and wonder. Our guidance approach involves children in the process of problem solving and cooperation.

Abilities United champions people with developmental and physical challenges and provides the training, education, and support they need to lead the lives they choose.

The mission of Bright Beginnings is to 1) provide children with a safe, nurturing educational environment, 2) prepare children to enter kindergarten ready to learn and 3) support homeless parents to stabilize their home lives and become self-sufficient.

It’s simple: children thrive when families succeed. Inspired and guided by this truth for 30 years, The Child and Family Network Centers’ (CFNC) mission is to provide caring, high-quality, free education and related services to at-risk children and their families in their own neighborhoods in order to prepare them for success in school and life. Based in Alexandria, VA, CFNC was started in 1984 by a group of mothers living in public housing after seven of their children failed kindergarten. This endeavor was an immediate success and all of the children from CFNC’s first class were recognized by the public school as gifted. Over time, CFNC expanded both its reach and its range of services in response to community need. For families hovering near the poverty line, there is often no safety net. The working poor and their children struggle, often falling between the cracks. CFNC dramatically changes the trajectory of these children’s lives by providing accredited preschool and the support services their families need to succeed.  

Crayons to Computer exists to level the playing field in the classroom by providing every student in need the tools to succeed in school.