REACH Community Fund

NOTE: The REACH Community Fund has limited funds available to assist nonprofit tutoring programs for 2011-2012.

 

About the REACH Community Fund

The REACH Community Fund supports organizations engaged in promoting school success for marginalized children and youth in grades 1-8 who are at-risk of not reaching their academic potential in math.

The REACH Community Fund helps non-profit and charitable community organizations that deliver tutoring, mentoring, or homework clubs to marginalized children and youth and schools that have a community volunteer program for tutoring outside of the classroom. REACH provides these organizations with student workbooks, tutor guides, and tutor training.

 

Program Impact

The program impacts the community by:

  • Raising math and overall academic achievement.
  • Improving attitudes toward math and other areas of learning
  • Increasing academic confidence and student satisfaction with school
  • Improving the classroom environment and academic performance across the board by reducing rates at which at-risk students act out and / or check out
  • Raising expectations for marginalized students

The REACH Community Fund is supported by generous donations from corporations, foundations, and individuals. If you would like to support this innovative fund, please donateThe 2010-11 REACH Community Fund is made possible by the generous support of Capital One, the Paloma Foundation and MTS Allstream.

 

Who Can Apply

  • Non-profit and charitable community organizations that deliver tutoring, mentoring, or homework clubs to marginalized children and youth in grades 1-8 throughout Canada; and
  • Schools that have a community volunteer program for tutoring outside of the classroom throughout Canada.

 

Responsibilities of Community Partners

  • To work with JUMP Math to evaluate the effectiveness of using JUMP Math in your program
  • To provide feedback to JUMP Math on the usefulness of the resources
  • To provide testimonials from tutors and students about their experience of the JUMP Math program

 

Questions?

If you would like to speak with someone at JUMP Math about the REACH Community Fund, please contact:

Noreen McLean, Office Manager

One Yonge Street
Suite 1006
Toronto, ON  M5E 1E5
Canada

Tel.  416-596-7716       ext. 228

Fax 416-596-1208

noreen.mclean@jumpmath.org