The Education Fund provides private sector leadership and support for innovation in public education. We design and implement initiatives that involve the entire community in improving our schools.

Hector J. Ponte, a Wells Fargo’s branch banking regional executive in South Florida, shares his insights into the impact of the work The Education Fund on teachers in Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

The Life Time Foundation is issuing a $50,000 grant to The Education Fund to support the Food Forests for Schools Program. The program leverages gardens and Food Forests as outdoor learning laboratories in Miami-Dade County's public elementary schools to instill in children the desire to eat nutritious food while learning to care for the environment.

The Education Fund unveils a pop-up school supply depot on Jan. 24, a move that expands the nonprofit’s reach to teachers and their students in Homestead and surrounding south Miami-Dade County communities of the nation's third-largest public school district.


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