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Through one such program, The Fairchild Challenge, about 20,000 students at more than 120 K-12 schools across Miami-Dade County plant, maintain, grow, and learn in their school gardens. This program offers garden consultations and teacher workshops as well as provides school garden grants.
Foundation for Early Learning is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to supporting early childhood development from birth through age five. Founded by Mona Lee Locke, the Foundation grew out of former Washington Governor Gary Locke's Commission on Early Learning and was started with a $10 million gift from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The city’s population of 110,867 is 66.8% Black, according to recent U.S. Census data, making Miami Gardens the largest majority-Black city in Florida.Newcomers are bringing more diversity: In ...
In the early 1990s, as the homeless population of Miami-Dade county grew to more than 8,000 people, [3] the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce formed a Homeless Committee to find a permanent solution to homelessness. These efforts led the Chamber to establish Carrfour Supportive Housing as a nonprofit entity "whose mission was to provide both ...
A proposed mixed-use development could bring multi-family housing and retail stores to Miami Gardens, the latest in a string of development projects planned for the burgeoning city.. The city is ...
A part-time aide to top executives at a Miami agency that advocates for early childhood learning programs faces charges in federal court this week of trying to coerce a 14-year-old boy into ...
Miami Children's Museum logo. The Miami Children’s Museum (formerly the Miami Youth Museum) is a non-profit educational institution located on Watson Island in the city of Miami, Florida. [1] The museum focuses on programs, classes and learning materials related to arts, culture, community and communication. They also provide support for ...
Etched along the exteriors of Miami Gardens’ City Hall is the name Shirley Gibson, the woman largely responsible for creating the predominantly Black city — and who later became its first mayor.