Founded in 1997 with General Colin Powell as Chairman and chaired today by Alma Powell, America’s Promise Alliance is a cross-sector partnership of more than 300 corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations and advocacy groups that are passionate about improving lives and changing outcomes for children. The Alliance’s work involves raising awareness, encouraging action and engaging in advocacy to provide children the Five Promises: Caring adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, An Effective Education and Opportunities to Help Others.
The nation's leading voice for afterschool, the Afterschool Alliance is the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments. The Afterschool Alliance works with the Administration, the U.S. Congress, governors, mayors and advocates across the country. Today the Afterschool Alliance boasts more than 25,000 afterschool program partners and its publications reach more than 65,000 interested individuals every month.
The United States Air Force has partnered with Destination ImagiNation to bring the creative problem solving program to bases across the country to provide both the core program and summer camps to their youth.
NASSP works to provide school leaders with the information and resources they need to address the many challenges in today's schools.
ESF (which stands for Education, Sports, and Fun) has been a pioneering force in summer day camps since its humble beginnings in 1982 by co-founders and brothers Michael and Bill Rouse. Since then, ESF has had a profound impact on children by Building Life Skills through a dynamic staff, high-quality programs, premier locations, time-honored traditions, and commitment to safety and FUN! Each camp is staffed by teachers and college students who possess a boundless passion for working with children and ESF boasts one of the lowest staff-to-child ratios in the camp industry. ESF's full-time staff works year-round to ensure that each child's camp experience is both memorable and life-changing.
The Motorola Foundation, the company's philanthropic arm, was formed in 1953. Today, the Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially programs that support math and science teacher-training programs and charitable organizations that excite young people about these subjects.
For almost 10 years, 3M has been a member of the Destination ImagiNation, Inc. team. 3M has 70,000 employees who put science and creativity to work every day by developing products that make people’s lives better. 3M knows the importance of supporting organizations that encourage kids to think creatively. Thanks to the partnership of 3M and Destination ImagiNation, Inc., there will be imaginative employees who can continue 3M’s tradition of producing innovative products.
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