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The following organizations have recently received support from the LEGO Children’s Fund:
Third Quarter, 2008
Brooklyn Children's Museum
To establish an Art Studio section, a multi-sensory activity area, for children under age five
Cardinal Cushing Centers
To implement a program called CLIMB that will creatively encourage children, who are cognitively impaired, to become more challenged and physically active
Children’s Law Center
To support a pilot program where children will learn creative ways to cope with issues precipitated by divorce, separation or loss
Children’s Museum of Science and Technology
To establish a Girls in Science and Technology Robotics and Engineering Camp within their day camp program
Discovery Museum
To provide funding for their “Science at the Center” program that will bring science and technology enrichment to children through local neighborhood community centers
Family Service Society, Inc.
To fund a new, creativity-inspiring educational program entitled “Inspiring Creativity through Science” for its Big Brother, Big Sister’s Program.
Greater Manchester Family YMCA
To support their Artist in Residence/Creative Movement after school program that will concentrate on dance/creative movement, working with children in the YOU (Youth Opportunities Unlimited) Program
Hartford Stage Company
To support “Innovation”, a new in-school, arts integrated science program, linked to state standards in science, and providing students the opportunity to expand their creativity while learning conceptual themes that challenge different cognitive abilities
NY Foundling Hospital
To fund a pilot program where the hospital will collaborate with NYU’s Information Technology Program to use adaptive technology to create accessible photography equipment for children with multiple disabilities.
reDiscover Center
To support a reDiscover It Day program where their center will be turned in an artist’s studio that will invite children of all ages to explore clean, discarded materials as tools for creativity
Sea Research Foundation
To implement an early childhood lecture series on baby sign language where sign language will encourage hearing impaired children to interact naturally in a playful and engaging way
Southwest Training Services
To support two interactive summer camps in 2009 for disadvantaged youths to introduce students to career opportunities and the latest technologies used in the building and construction industry
Tincan
To fund Tincan Game Academy where students will be taught to create video games that address serious issues such as the environment
U.S.D. #261 Parents as Teachers
To support a weekly “Explorer Lab” start-up program where creativity and self-exploration in the arts and sciences will be explored by children through “hands-on” activities
Village for Families and Children
To assist in the establishment of the Academy for Successful Families at the Village, an integrated early childhood and family service model grounded in existing Village programs
Second Quarter, 2008
Boys & Girls Club of Vista
To establish a student run weekly radio program at their club
Class Acts Arts, Inc.
To support performances and hands-on multiple-session visual and performing arts education residencies for four after-school programs
Drexel University
To implement a program designed to teach figure skating to inner-city, disadvantaged middle-school children in Philadelphia
Families First, Inc.
To introduce an Art Therapy Connection Program, utilizing creative activities such as painting, sketching, acting, dancing, etc.
Family and Children’s Aid, Inc.
To fund staff training in the Life is Good®, "Project Joy Powerplay Program" a program to assist children exposed to massive traumatic events to redevelop the ability to play.
Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
To help support weekly workshops for domestic violence centers to expose children to creative movement through dance instructions.
Indian Valley Middle School
To support a new pre-engineering curriculum, immersing youngsters in project-based learning
Jr. Achievement of Eastern MA
To support a new JA program at Page-Hilltop Elementary School in Ayer, MA
Majestic Theater
To fund an artist-in-residency program that will provide students with a hands-on interdisciplinary experience including the creation of a 17 foot mobile
Manatee County Family YMCA
To support the incorporation of a Computer Explorers Engineering For Kids Program into their summer camp curriculum.
Northampton Community Music Center
To help fund the new “Orff, Orff, and Away" program, an initiative geared towards music discovery and learning for disadvantaged children in Western Massachusetts.
Prevent Child Abuse Rhode Island
To host 20 child care center’s “Day of Play” where parents and their children will participate in a variety of learning-through-play activities.
Rockford Community Education
To support Science Fun Nights, a series of events where "pre-schoolers" are introduced to science facts while parents are learning how to “play” with their children.
Waterbury Youth Service System, Inc.
To help implement an after-school Innovative Art Project for under-privileged youth in Waterbury, CT. Voluntary mentors and local college students will work side by side with individual children teaching various art mediums assisting them in designing their own art projects.
First Quarter, 2008
Arts Council of Greater New Haven
To support educational activities, workshops, artists and entertainers for interactive sites and performances presented at their “Audubon Arts on the Edge” family day.
Berkshire South Regional Community Center
To fund a new Tracking Survival Program
Community YMCA
To support a new robotics program for their after school program
Falcom School District #49
To establish an Elementary Level Robotics Program
Fiddlehead Center for the Arts – Scarborough
To launch their new Technology through the Arts initiative for their after school program
HomeFront, Inc.
To establish an Artspace Program for children living in a homeless shelter
Jr. Achievement of Southwest New England
To support a new JA program at Enfield, CT’s Alcorn Elementary School
McCormick County First Steps
To implement a new project allowing at-risk children in the Head Start Program to discover and experience their creative art skills with different types of art, using several different media.
Multi-Talent Resource Center
To support their summer Cyber Camp “Mindstormers’ Explosion” Program
Ozark Foothills FilmFest, Inc.
To fund the creation of a new workshop called The Digital Flipbook that merges traditional hand-drawn and computer animation
Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc.
To support a creative science curriculum where hands-on lessons will be conducted in summer day camps, culminating in a Science Olympia.
Robotics & Beyond, Inc.
To implement the Deep Space Network challenge project, introducing students to NASA’s DSN providing them ways to learn about the roles of flight controllers and mission scientists while giving students hands on experience designing and using technologies necessary to operate the DSN.
Shaker Family Center
To fund their seven week pilot series where children will engage in creative, imaginative and fun ways to master counting, sorting rhyming and sequencing.
Technology Access Foundation
To support the TechStart Robotics Pilot Project where students will engineer and create a robot
UConn Foundation, Inc.
To support the initiation of the 4-H Science, Engineering and Technology program’s national curriculum for robotics in CT
Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
To support a pilot program as a preliminary and screening program to introduce instrumental instruction. Successful completion of the program will allow free instrumental group lessons with the goal of participating in the new Greater Waterbury Youth Symphony’s orchestra.
Fourth Quarter, 2007
Boys & Girls Clubs of Martin County
To support implementation of a robotics club
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Upstate
To provide club members a hands-on experience in TV and film production
Bridge Family Center
To support a creative writing project to assimilate information from field trips into a bound book of individual experiences
C.A.S.T.L.E. (Colchester Alternative School Age Total Learning
Experience, Inc.)
To support the visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpting) and musical performances to learn techniques, projects, songs, etc. from professionals
Children’s Discovery Museum
To support a traveling, hands-on exhibit for children to learn about physics principles and creative us of those principles
Fort Walla Walla Park Planet Walk
To support physical fitness while teaching solar system alignment and interaction
Girl Scouts – Red Lands
To support a creative learning opportunity to design, build and program robots
Heart of Los Angeles
To support a pilot program designed to expand the range of what students can create and design on a computer
Lancaster Recreation Commission
To support an arts project for children to learn about and create sculptures, paintings and other art work
Lawrence Hall of Science
To help introduce basic concepts in zoology and biology in a fun and interactive way
Neighborhood of Affordable Housing
To enhance creativity through a program of food growth planning, planting, cultivation and harvesting
Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club
To support hands-on science projects aimed at piquing student interest in science
SouthEast Effective Development (SEED)
To provide an after-school Public Art Workshop
The Works
To support two engineering based programs at the elementary schools in Minneapolis/St.Paul south metro area
William S. Baer School
To support an interactive, student run store for residents suffering from severe and multiple handicaps to foster creativity and learning to live on their own