AFRE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Academy for Restorative EducationAFRE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN! We are raising funds to secure a green, safe space to build our school!
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The Academy for Restorative Education (AFRE) aims to improve educational outcomes for African American students by regifting the love of learning. This love can only bloom in the context of safe learning spaces free from bias, neglect and low expectations. Our signature project, the School of Innovation, Leadership and Efficacy (SILE, pronounced See-Lay) is designed to do just that. Our master teachers have a passion for transformation of the educational experience and our dedicated team is determined to affect change.
We are building the premier school to uplift previously neglected youth.
Too often, African American students are left to attend low performing, low resourced schools in urban buildings in disrepair. One of the critical places we must start when creating a new learning environment is securing an adequate, safe healing space.
Schools that have recreational lawn areas, gardens, trees, and other flora reflect a commitment to providing students, staff, and the neighborhood with attractive, aesthetic, and nurturing green space and to promoting greater physical activity by students. Such spaces can be used to provide enriched academic, social, and emotional learning opportunities and to help relieve stress.
Without a permanent home, SILE has migrated around the Bay Area to engage the community in a variety of different locations and settings
including our Saturday Steam Days. Like any school, the security needed to truly be transformational first lies in the ability to have a consistent space. Only with consistency can academic excellence be realized.
But SILE is not just in search of any old space. The locations that many independent schools have settled for due to fiscal restraints are often counterproductive to creative, courageous learning. Our students deserve a wide open, green campus away from air and noise pollution zones. They deserve ample outdoor space, modern facilities with lots of natural light and in addition to spacious classrooms, auxiliary spaces for science, sports and the performing arts.
A campus of this magnitude will come at significant cost. But the cost of continuing to neglect the education of our local youth is much higher.
AFRE is in search of a gift or grant of 1 to 7 acres of land to build our school SILE on. Donors can also choose to gift or grant the funds of construction of the actual campus, the cost of securing utilities to the land or gift or grant an already built campus on a comparable amount of land.
Once a site is secure, AFRE will begin the search to fund ongoing development, repairs and site preparation to receive our eager learners.
This fundraiser supports
Academy for Restorative Education
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