The mission of Hearing For A Change is to foster the love of audiobooks and build vocabulary, knowledge, comprehension and imagination for struggling readers to choose to listen to audiobooks daily. The goal is to create Hearing for a Change clubs at every high school in Palm Beach County to help more struggling readers. There are currently Hearing For A Change clubs at Olympic Heights Community High School, Spanish River Community High School, and A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts.
Hearing For A Change
Teaching young students about their environment and how to sustain it is the mission of The Environauts. Composting, recycling and solar energy and just a few focuses of this after school-based program.
There are so many resources and programs that are youth centered but many youth do not have the access or understanding of how to tap into them. SparkED will create a digital platform that allows students to find programs and opportunities that meet their interests and provide experiences they can capitalize on.
With music programs being limited around the country, Bmore Youth Notes aims to work with students who want to learn to play instruments or enhance the skills they already have through after school and weekend music programming. This program is currently functioning in Howard County.
Bmore Fresh is a project focused on bringing fresh, locally sources produce to food desserts around the city, through the renovation of a city bus and partnerships with urban farmers.
Hooks with Heart is a crocheting club with the mission of teaching the art of crochet while providing a safe space to encourage human connection, promote animal welfare, and mental health improvement of youth and adults.
Down to Earth seeks to educate fourth and fifth grade students in Palm Beach County public and charter schools about climate change, and mobilize them and their families to practice sustainability through the perspective-shifting opportunity to view Science on a Sphere, a six-foot diameter NOAA globe projection screen that visualizes Earth systems in three dimensions.
Endgame Education is a chess centered organization that provides young people with exposure to the game, as well as tutoring for those looking to compete by hosting in person and virtual events. The goal of the organization is to expand the minds of youth through the problem solving and critical thinking that is needed to excel at the incredible game of chess.