The Giving Guide - Supporting NonProfits

Mission:"To provide disadvantaged elementary school students with positive feedback and rewards for academic achievement and good citizenship that will establish the foundation for educational success."

The Winners Circle Program is an incentive system thathelps students to set personal academic and citizenship goals and publicly recognizestheir achievements. Winners Circle provides professional support to teachers in theform of goal setting materials, recognition awards and quarterly classroom incentives.Parents also receive recognition for attending both Parent Teacher Conferences. The program provides motivation and incentives to the students through publicquarterly recognition celebrations. Goal Buddy volunteers from local corporationsvisit classrooms twice a quarter and encourage students to reach their goals.

Giving Opportunities:

The Winners Circle Program could not exist without the generosity of donors. Some giving opportunities are:

Adopt one of our twelve schools, one of our 227 classrooms or one of the approximately 4,500 students we serve.

Donate Our students have limited access to materials that further their learning at home. Donate new elementary reading level books, educational games or fitness equipment to be given to students who reach their goals.

Sponsor Become an Academic Gold Medal, Uniform School Polo
or Winners Circle Celebration Sponsor.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Goal Buddies Community volunteers, called Goal Buddies, visit students in their classrooms twice a school quarter to encourage them to pursue the personal goals in math, reading and citizenship that they have set with their teacher. Each Goal Buddy team is composed of 2-3 community volunteers who are assigned to two specific classrooms for the year. These volunteers will spend 30 minutes in each classroom talking with individual students about their academic and citizenship goals. Goal Buddies are also invited to the quarterly celebrations to recognize and award the students for meeting their goals. The annual schedule of meeting dates and celebrations is provided in September of each year.