Playbox

My playbox was about activism and was fun learning about activism and the different activist groups. There are many curriculum based activties for classrooms and teen centered activities. This is very relevant topic now a days because the teens in parkland are showing youth leader qualities and showing the world what youth led activism could accomplish. My favorite part of the assignment was coming up with the activity and coming up with different ways to present the activity and topic. Working on the activity was great because it made me come up with a activity that was engaging and had a purpose. One of the comments that were made in class was to have an slide with how to form an activist March and the planing behind the movement to change a law or anything else. There was a picture of steps and the things to plan change that I wished I included on the slides and had while the groups were working. The activity was to have groups talk about the topics that meant something to the group and then what plan of action they can implement to make awareness. This activity used the groups members knowledge to come up with the plans or to just talk about what needs to be changed.

Not So Snowy Snow Day Project

HSLI is a six week summer program that is a learning experience for campers and it is serviced all over Rhode Island. During the summer students lose math and literacy skills and while they are in the HSLI program the continue to build and improve those skills. They seem to use a purposeful play activities and they are helping improve student communities in learning and improving their mathe and literacy skills. There are a lot of kids in the program from upper to lower class students and scholarships and financial aids are included for students. This program brings students and teachers together in a non classroom style of learning and teaching. This bond also helps the teachers bring in things they learned in the summer into the classroom during the school year. there are many requirements that have to be met to have the grant approved. There needs to be a show of data and curriculum in the program and professional development among many more requirements that are involved in this program. There are many pluses to this program, like helping lower class students maintain their math and literacy skills during the summer and being offered in many towns in RI. One thing I would change is make it an eight week program and give more time for learning experiences in the summer.

RI Foundation

The foundation was organized in 1916 by the Rhode Island Hospital Trust CO. The first donation was given by Jesse Metcalf who was an industrialist and a senator.Their mission is to meet the needs of the people in RI from a philanthropic level. To me it seems like they get donations from many different resources, like private donors and different funds. One of their donations was from the Frederick B. Wilcox Endowment Fund Gift and that was a gift from Wilcox's family and he gave to the Rhode Island Foundation before as well. They give to communities and nonprofits to promote educational success, healthy living, and many more. The gave over 270,000 dollars in grants to Newport County in 2017. One of the recipients is the Newport County YMCA and their program called Prescribe the Y. Prescribe the Y is a program to help reduce childhood obesity in their community. Prescribe the Y gives kids ages 6 to 16 a physical fitness and nutrition educational program. One question I have is what kind of nonprofit employees reach out to the foundation, like CEO or directors? Another question I have is what is the guideline of funding a community project? I did not find on the website what the qualifications for a community based grant are.