Frequently Asked Questions:
What is a Walk On?
What is the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children?
What is a Bright Space?
What is a Bright Horizons center?
How do I learn more about homeless children?
What is a Walk On?
A Walk On is a walkathon led by Bright Horizons teachers, children, and families. The goal is raise money and awareness about the needs of children in crisis. Walk Ons raise money to help the Foundation’s work of brightening lives for children who are homeless or experiencing other major crisis.
What is the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children?
The Bright Horizons Foundation for Children is a nonprofit organization focused on brightening the lives of children, youth, and families in crisis. The Foundation believes that we can make the world a better place by engaging Bright Horizons’ employees, clients, families, friends, and community partners, and their passion for meeting the needs of all children. We do this by creating comforting places for children in crisis to grow and play, strengthening their families, supporting our communities, sharing our knowledge, and encouraging others to join us in making a difference.
Our signature program is Bright Spaces, partnering our early care and education programs and our clients with local community agencies to create warm, enriching places for children and families in crisis to play, learn, and have fun.
Our grant programs (Gleason, Founders, and Make a Difference grants) support charitable causes that matter to our employees by giving in their names.
Our Community Champions program recognizes outstanding employees who make the world a better place by volunteering their time to charitable causes.
What is a Bright Space?
Bright Spaces are warm, enriching places in homeless shelters and community agencies that give children and families in crisis a place to play, learn and have fun. Bright Spaces are created in partnership with Bright Horizons employees, corporations, community agencies, and others.
To learn more about this program, please click here.
What is a Bright Horizons center?
Founded in 1986, Bright Horizons Family Solutions is the world's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, early education, and work/life solutions. Conducting business in the United States, Europe, and Canada, we have created employer-sponsored child care and early education programs for more than 700 clients, including more than 90 of the Fortune 500. Bright Horizons manages more than 600 child care centers and schools for many of the world's leading corporations, hospitals, universities, and government agencies.
All of our child care centers are designed to meet the standards of excellence set by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). We are proud to help children worldwide develop the skills they need to prepare for academic excellence and success in life, while we partner with employers to support their employees as they strive to balance the demands of work and family. In addition, we provide back-up care solutions for children and elders, college counseling services, and an array of other work/life solutions for working families.
To learn more about Bright Horizons Family Solutions, please click here.
How do I learn more about homeless children?
Here are links to other organizations that have more information about homelessness:
Inspiring kids to end hunger and poverty in their communities, their countires, their world:
http://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org
The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
http://www.naehcy.org/index.html
The National Center on Family Homelessness
http://www.familyhomelessness.org/
The National Coalition for the Homeless
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
Mission is to provide homeless families with the opportunities and support necessary to move out of shelter and live independently.
www.homesforthehomeless.com
The faces and stories of Homeless teens in America
http://www.do1thing.org/
HEAR US, a national organization giving voice and visibility to homeless children and youth.
http://www.hearus.us/
Read More...
CNN Reports 1 in 50 Children Face Homelessness in America
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/10/homeless.children/index.html?iref=newssearch
Tidal Wave of Homeless Students hits Schools
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29356160/from/ET/
Homeless Families Rise 22% in one year
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/06/homeless_families_rise_22_in_a_year/
Tenant evicted even though she pays rent on time
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/23/landlord.foreclosure/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Homeless Student Numbers on the Rise
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-homeless-studentsfeb13,0,2748284.story |
