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The following organizations have recently received support from the LEGO Children’s Fund:
Second Quarter, 2008
Boys & Girls Club of Vista
To establish a student run weekly radio program at their club
Class Acts Arts, Inc.
To support performances and hands-on multiple-session visual and performing arts education residencies for four after-school programs
Drexel University
To implement a program designed to teach figure skating to inner-city, disadvantaged middle-school children in Philadelphia
Families First, Inc.
To introduce an Art Therapy Connection Program, utilizing creative activities such as painting, sketching, acting, dancing, etc.
Family and Children’s Aid, Inc.
To fund staff training in the Life is Good®, "Project Joy Powerplay Program" a program to assist children exposed to massive traumatic events to redevelop the ability to play.
Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
To help support weekly workshops for domestic violence centers to expose children to creative movement through dance instructions.
Indian Valley Middle School
To support a new pre-engineering curriculum, immersing youngsters in project-based learning
Jr. Achievement of Eastern MA
To support a new JA program at Page-Hilltop Elementary School in Ayer, MA
Majestic Theater
To fund an artist-in-residency program that will provide students with a hands-on interdisciplinary experience including the creation of a 17 foot mobile
Manatee County Family YMCA
To support the incorporation of a Computer Explorers Engineering For Kids Program into their summer camp curriculum.
Northampton Community Music Center
To help fund the new “Orff, Orff, and Away" program, an initiative geared towards music discovery and learning for disadvantaged children in Western Massachusetts.
Prevent Child Abuse Rhode Island
To host 20 child care center’s “Day of Play” where parents and their children will participate in a variety of learning-through-play activities.
Rockford Community Education
To support Science Fun Nights, a series of events where "pre-schoolers" are introduced to science facts while parents are learning how to “play” with their children.
Waterbury Youth Service System, Inc.
To help implement an after-school Innovative Art Project for under-privileged youth in Waterbury, CT. Voluntary mentors and local college students will work side by side with individual children teaching various art mediums assisting them in designing their own art projects.
First Quarter, 2008
Arts Council of Greater New Haven
To support educational activities, workshops, artists and entertainers for interactive sites and performances presented at their “Audubon Arts on the Edge” family day.
Berkshire South Regional Community Center
To fund a new Tracking Survival Program
Community YMCA
To support a new robotics program for their after school program
Falcom School District #49
To establish an Elementary Level Robotics Program
Fiddlehead Center for the Arts – Scarborough
To launch their new Technology through the Arts initiative for their after school program
HomeFront, Inc.
To establish an Artspace Program for children living in a homeless shelter
Jr. Achievement of Southwest New England
To support a new JA program at Enfield, CT’s Alcorn Elementary School
McCormick County First Steps
To implement a new project allowing at-risk children in the Head Start Program to discover and experience their creative art skills with different types of art, using several different media.
Multi-Talent Resource Center
To support their summer Cyber Camp “Mindstormers’ Explosion” Program
Ozark Foothills FilmFest, Inc.
To fund the creation of a new workshop called The Digital Flipbook that merges traditional hand-drawn and computer animation
Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc.
To support a creative science curriculum where hands-on lessons will be conducted in summer day camps, culminating in a Science Olympia.
Robotics & Beyond, Inc.
To implement the Deep Space Network challenge project, introducing students to NASA’s DSN providing them ways to learn about the roles of flight controllers and mission scientists while giving students hands on experience designing and using technologies necessary to operate the DSN.
Shaker Family Center
To fund their seven week pilot series where children will engage in creative, imaginative and fun ways to master counting, sorting rhyming and sequencing.
Technology Access Foundation
To support the TechStart Robotics Pilot Project where students will engineer and create a robot
UConn Foundation, Inc.
To support the initiation of the 4-H Science, Engineering and Technology program’s national curriculum for robotics in CT
Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
To support a pilot program as a preliminary and screening program to introduce instrumental instruction. Successful completion of the program will allow free instrumental group lessons with the goal of participating in the new Greater Waterbury Youth Symphony’s orchestra.
Fourth Quarter, 2007
Boys & Girls Clubs of Martin County
To support implementation of a robotics club
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Upstate
To provide club members a hands-on experience in TV and film production
Bridge Family Center
To support a creative writing project to assimilate information from field trips into a bound book of individual experiences
C.A.S.T.L.E. (Colchester Alternative School Age Total Learning
Experience, Inc.)
To support the visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpting) and musical performances to learn techniques, projects, songs, etc. from professionals
Children’s Discovery Museum
To support a traveling, hands-on exhibit for children to learn about physics principles and creative us of those principles
Fort Walla Walla Park Planet Walk
To support physical fitness while teaching solar system alignment and interaction
Girl Scouts – Red Lands
To support a creative learning opportunity to design, build and program robots
Heart of Los Angeles
To support a pilot program designed to expand the range of what students can create and design on a computer
Lancaster Recreation Commission
To support an arts project for children to learn about and create sculptures, paintings and other art work
Lawrence Hall of Science
To help introduce basic concepts in zoology and biology in a fun and interactive way
Neighborhood of Affordable Housing
To enhance creativity through a program of food growth planning, planting, cultivation and harvesting
Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club
To support hands-on science projects aimed at piquing student interest in science
SouthEast Effective Development (SEED)
To provide an after-school Public Art Workshop
The Works
To support two engineering based programs at the elementary schools in Minneapolis/St.Paul south metro area
William S. Baer School
To support an interactive, student run store for residents suffering from severe and multiple handicaps to foster creativity and learning to live on their own
Third Quarter, 2007
Alternatives, Inc.
To support a new project that will increase creative problem solving skills and innovative thinking through workshops and various activities.
California State University – Dominguez Hills
To support a "Discovery Play Garden" that will allow students to learn about the environment through exploration, discovery and their own creative imaginations.
Chicago Children's Museum
To support an Arts Day festival with workshops, visiting artists, and hands-on improvisation in an effort to expose children to the arts.
LA's Best
To support three unique art and science projects.
Lena Park Community Development Corporation
To support the installation of technology and software into 4 classrooms to enhance creative problem solving.
Loyola Academy of St. Louis
To support the purchasing of athletic equipment allowing children who are not currently exposed to sports, to participate in various sport activities.
North Star Elementary School
To support the creation of an engineering club as part of the after school program.
Nuts, Bolts, and Thingamajigs, Inc.
To support four "webisodes" that will encourage parents and children to explore manual arts together. The webisodes will feature John Ratzenberger and youth, tinkering together and building small projects.
Office of Children and Youth
To support "Gus Bus" Family Night, a mobile activity vehicle outreach program.
Oklahoma State University
To support a child-therapy play room that will be used to provide play equipment and associated materials for children in need, and for training of graduate students.
Private Industry Council – Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc.
To support the development and implementation of an after school robotics program for grades 3 through 5.
Southern Sierra Boys and Girls Club
To support a new program that emphasizes health and nutrition through exercise and good eating habits.
Total Child Preschool and Daycare
To support the installation of an aviary in the school to encourage experimentation and research.
VSA Arts of NJ
To support a one day arts festival for disabled children to include workshops, exhibits and performances.