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Starfish Impact School hits the mid-year mark and makes great strides
The Starfish Impact School (SI) is officially at the mid-year mark, and we’ve learned and achieved so much in just six months. Our school opened in January 2017 with a cohort of 48 young women entering the 7th grade. Each year, SI will expand by one grade level, until it is a fully operational 7th…
Read MoreStarfish Impact School opens
The Starfish Impact School is an innovative, intensive girls school program in an indigenous area of Sololá. For the past two years, Starfish has been preparing for the first class of 7th graders. The first group of students started school in the second week of January.
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Starfish is a powerful model of education and student support focused within the native Mayan community in Guatemala. Throughout their history, they have a track record of empowering Girl Pioneers, increasing student and parental literacy, encouraging traditional education, and strong mentorship for girls after the sixth grade. They developed a wonderful process of identifying girls…
Read MoreStarfish advances teacher knowledge through intense training
Starish is an innovative Guatemalan education program geared to mentoring and education of middle year native girls. Our 2015 Compassionate Impact Grant provided funds to prepare teachers to instruct Starfish students in their new high performing school, The Starfish Impact School. Since this is a new endeavor not only in Guatemala but much of Central…
Read MoreStarfish program offers life-changing opportunities
This guest post is from Ana Teresa, a young woman who has participated in the Starfish program for five years. Starfish is our Q1 2016 Education beneficiary. They also received the Compassionate Impact Grant Q2 2015. Their model is simple: they work with young women from low-income, traditionally marginalized communities who have the talent and desire to…
Read MoreBBN Guides: Starfish and DNSI Fundraising Ideas
Looking for new and creative ideas to mobilize your community and maximize your impact? This month host a fundraiser for one of Foundation Beyond Belief’s beneficiaries. Beyond Belief Network teams are in the unique position of being able to connect with several of FBB’s programs while bolstering their own team. Your team doesn’t have…
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Starfish is a powerful model of education and student support focused within the native Mayan community in Guatemala. Throughout their history, they have a track record of empowering Girl Pioneers, increasing student and parental literacy, encouraging traditional education, and strong mentorship for girls after the sixth grade. They developed a wonderful process of identifying girls…
Read MoreStarfish’s impact school offers change in educational model
In previous posts we have mentioned the plans of our compassionate impact grant recipient, Starfish, to open an impact school for middle- and high school-aged Guatemalan girls. The generous contributions of Foundation Beyond Belief members have helped launch the rigorous teacher training courses that will serve as the core of that school and the launch…
Read MoreLatest education guide teaches the mission of Starfish
Starfish, our current Compassionate Impact Grant beneficiary, teaches young girls in Guatemala how to be leaders. To teach young people everywhere about Starfish and the importance of their work, Foundation Beyond Belief has put together an activity book. Designed for children of all ages, this book outlines some of Starfish’s techniques for developing leaders while…
Read MoreBeyond Belief Network Guides: Starfish
Starfish is Foundation Beyond Belief’s Compassionate Impact Grant beneficiary, a program in the Humanist Giving program that combines all member donations into one high-impact capacity-building grant. As with all FBB beneficiaries, Starfish was chosen based on compatibility with the FBB mission, program effectiveness and evaluation, an innovative approach to solving a problem and devising a…
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