Community Exposure Program
We often overlook social capital and its influence on a child’s ability to think critically. It’s a simple fact: the more a child experiences the broader their scope of the world will be.
Most students at Dillard and North Fork Elementary would like to engage in more community and cultural exposure to enhance their personal development. Ranger Good Works provides enriching experiences with community partners for Dillard and North Fork students, faculty, and friends.
We often overlook social capital and its influence on a child’s ability to think critically. It’s a simple fact: the more a child experiences, the broader the scope of their world will be. Ranger Good Works, along with our extensive list of local partners, hosts community events, visits, and field trips that create an exciting and stimulating school year full of adventure and learning experiences.
Many of the students at North Fork or Dillard Elementary have little or no access to the beach, a mall, or even an elevator ride. Ranger Good Works aims to broaden its students’ horizons with field trips to local businesses, museums, civic events, colleges, theaters, and more. Visits can be a simple reception, tour, presentation, and or educational session related to a company or organization. These educational field trips supply students with a window into the world and let them explore what’s outside their own neighborhood – igniting a natural curiosity to learn more. Ranger Good Works works with our community partners to raise funds that pay for transportation to and from field trips as well as nourishment.
Can providing students with enriching experiences change the way they experience school and help them create a vision of life outside of poverty? Yes, we believe it can!
Let’s help Dillard and North Fork Elementary level the playing field and see what can happen when students have more community engagement opportunities!
The highlight of the community exposure program is our annual May event: Career City. The students we serve look forward to this major occasion all year long and start dreaming of what their future holds.
In 2016, Ranger Good Works’ Career City hosted more than 70 local South Florida companies and organizations with 150+ volunteers involved. Ranger Good Works provides funding and produces the whole affair, bringing all our community partners together at one time. It’s a perfect chance for local businesses to display their organizations while inspiring and engaging students, their families, Dillard and North Fork faculty and staff, and of course, each other.
Through the College Tour Program, Ranger Good Works is providing Dillard and North Fork Elementary’s 5th grade students with “life changing” college tour experiences that promote dreams. Students get to walk through academic, residential, athletic and administrative buildings on a college campus, meet with the faculty and discuss college programs and speak with on-site college students to discuss campus life.
Our 2016 college tour was at Florida Atlantic University, and Dillard Elementary students stayed in dorms for 3 nights, attended classes, interacted with college students and explored the campus.
Many of Dillard and North Fork’s students will be first generation college students, therefore the College Tour is essential to inspire students and develop young minds in order to instill the value of higher education and how to attain it.
College tours include most South Florida Universities and other universities within the State of Florida. Sometimes tours are given for schools out of state as well.
Funding is needed for transportation, food, lodging and miscellaneous expenses. Click here to Donate or Contact us to help sponsor a College Tour.
We are always looking for companies to host community exposure visits for the students we serve! Visits can be a simple reception and tour or up to a 2-hour presentation or education session related to your company or organization. Our goal is to show the students that the world they live in can offer more than what they have witnessed within their school’s five-mile radius. We encourage you to share your story and express how hard work and education pays off in the future!
If you would like to sign your company up to be a host, please contact us at 954-527-0090.
If you would like to help fund this program, please visit our donation page.
Students start dreaming big once they attend the Ranger Good Works Career City at Dillard Elementary School and North Fork Elementary School!