Elementary School

The Foundation’s Enrichment and Accelerated Learning Grants are designed to provide targeted support at the elementary school level. Grantees offer exceptionally promising K-5 students with financial need the rigorous academic experiences they need to develop their talents, a community of peers, and the opportunity to explore new interests through challenging school-based, summer, and after school enrichment programs.

BELL

The Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) summer and BELL after school programs are nationally-recognized models of excellence. These innovative programs are designed to improve the academic achievements, self-esteem, and life opportunities of children living in low-income, urban communities.

BELL's programs, currently operating in Baltimore, Boston, and New York City, provide small-group tutoring, mentoring, field trips, guest speakers, community service, and support for parents. Through rigorous evaluation, BELL ensures continual improvement and success for children. With a three-year grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, BELL is expanding its programs to ensure that thousands of elementary school children receive the support they need to reach advanced levels of academic performance.

Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY)

The Foundation’s grant to Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) has established an Honors Program for elementary students in ten Title I school districts nationwide that have implemented the EPGY math curriculum. Approximately 250 accelerated students in these largely low-income schools will receive three years of scholarship support for advanced math, reading, and science instruction.

For more information about this program, please call (800) 372-EPGY or send an email to info@epgy.stanford.edu.

Education Program for Gifted Youth
Ventura Hall
220 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305-4101
epgy.stanford.edu

Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI)

Through the Foundation’s grant, Purdue University’s Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI) has implemented Project HOPE (Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence) in five school districts in Indiana - two urban and three rural - to provide exceptionally promising, lower-income students with Saturday and summer enrichment experiences.

For more information about this program, please call (765) 494-7243 or send an email to geri@purdue.edu.

Gifted Education Resource Institute
Beering Hall, Room 5108A
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
www.geri.soe.purdue.edu

Human Development Foundation (HDF)

The Foundation’s grant to the Human Development Foundation has helped expand its OPEN GATE Program for gifted and talented education, reaching students in additional low-income school districts throughout San Diego County.

For more information about this program, please call (760) 944-9224 or send an email to info@opengatehdf.org

Human Development Foundation
PO Box 231665
Encinitas, CA 92023
www.humandevelopmentfoundation.com

Center for Talent Development (CTD)

The Foundation’s grant to Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development (CTD) provides support for academically talented students from three low-income school districts in the Chicago area to participate in its rigorous Saturday Enrichment Program.

For more information about this program, please call (847) 491-3782 or send an email to ctd@northwestern.edu.

Center for Talent Development
617 Dartmouth Place
Evanston, IL 60208
www.ctd.northwestern.edu