Foster Grants and Giving Inc

• Providing books to underserved students to support literacy to combat learning gaps due to COVID and post-pandemic education slides.
• Providing books to schools to build classroom libraries and supporting literacy programs to combat learning gaps due to COVID and post-pandemic education slides.
• Providing consistent and personalized high-impact and high-dosage (offered three or more days of the week) tutoring to struggling, underserved students.
• Providing PERT, SAT, and ACT test preparation, including study guides, online access, and tutoring.
• Focusing on closing achievement gaps and accelerating student reading achievement for our identified students.
• Providing laptops to students and underfunded schools to allow every student to have one-on-one computer access and the ability to work from home in case school closures occur again.
• Providing nutritious and appealing meals while being served by caring professionals in a friendly atmosphere.
• Ensuring homeless children have access to education and other services meets the same standards to which all students are held.
• Ensuring all high school students of every race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic level have accurate information, tools, knowledge, and opportunity to attend the country's best colleges.
• Getting 99%-100% of our students into some College (Technical, Vocational, Community, Junior, or University).

During these unprecedented times, Fostering High-Quality Education for All is honored to support students in Central Florida, help close learning gaps, and provide vital services to support elementary, middle, and high school students' well-being during these uncertain times. Post-pandemic, we are committed to supporting remediation and literacy programs to keep our students up from being behind due to the year and a half of academic learning loss from digital learning due to COVID. In addition, we provide brand new books to underserved students and books to schools that serve low-income African Americans and students of color to create classroom libraries. We also provide high-impact and high-dosage tutoring to provide targeted tutoring to our struggling population of students who might be struggling more in one subject area than another. In contrast, teacher-assigned tutoring allows schools to provide intensive support as needs arise. The personalized attention our students will receive will help pinpoint the root causes of their struggles while bridging gaps that will set up our students for a future of academic success and lead to the goal of improving grade-level reading by the end of our programming. Our programs will engage research-based practices and implement literacy-rich schedules for identified students that would benefit from these additional supports. Our tutors will utilize high-quality materials and practices to ensure every student understands phonics, basic reading skills, vocabulary, spelling, reading comprehension, word meaning, critical thinking skills, and other identified needs.

Our high-school program provides free PERT, SAT, and ACT testing preparation study guides and tutoring, complimentary breakfast and lunch during tutoring sessions, scientific calculators, up to five free college books for their first semester of college, gas cards, paid college application costs, and ACT/SAT waivers. Our high school programming will build critical thinking skills for our student's future higher education and post-high-school career endeavors.

High School Services
• Providing strategies, advice, support, and guidance to students and their families from the application process throughout their time in high school makes the best-individualized choice for college.
• Assisting students in identifying resources for scholarships and financial aid for colleges and universities.
• PERT, ACT, and SAT preparation/payment assistance.
• Setting short-term and long-term academic and career goals.
• Mentoring services.

Foster Grants and Giving Inc. makes Community Collaboration with community leaders, nonprofits, schools, local school districts, churches, small businesses, and social agencies a priority for our company. That is the reason our slogan is "Helping the Helpers" because we collaborate and do everything humanly possible to provide aid where it is needed the most with a dedication and understanding of humanity and care. Collaboration with community leaders, businesses, programs, volunteers, and social agencies is invaluable for our program, which provides all the necessary support and wraparound services for our students. We are blessed to have partnerships from Wal-Mart, Costco Wholesale, CVS Health, Walgreens, Publix, Uber, Wawa, Pizza Hut, Celebration Restaurant Group, KFC, Taco Bell, A Yum! Brands Franchise, Panera Bread, Oriental Trading, Zevia, Cobb Theatres, Medieval Times, Jeremiah's Italian Ice, WonderWorks Orlando, Chuy's Tex Mex, Topgolf Orlando, Ross Dress For Less, Orlando Solar Bears, 4 Rivers Smokehouse, 4imprint.com, Otter Box, Crayola Experience, University of South Florida Athletics, Nora Roberts Foundation, Lucky’s Market Winter Park, Orlando Apollos, Alliance of American Football, ALDI/ALDI Smart Kids Program, USA Today Networks, Facebook, Amazon, Southeastern Grocers, Winn-Dixie, Fogo de Chao Churrascaria, Microsoft, Foxtail Coffee Co., Rubio's Coastal Grill, TPC Tampa Bay, Insight Community Foundation, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Osceola County Government, Margaret McCartney & R. Parks Williams Foundation, Harper Family Charitable Foundation, Kissimmee Utility Authority, Google, Registry for Good, Whole Foods Foundation, One-By-One Foundation, City of St. Cloud, IronMan Foundation, RDV Ice Den, Toho Water Authority, Lisa Libraries, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Hindi’s Libraries, Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tree House series, and Random House Children's Books.

 Wrote a $450,000.00 Bi-partisan grant approved through congress for an innovative school in Osceola County.
 Funded five-class libraries for underserved students to have access to books year-round.
 Wrote a $940,000.00 Bi-partisan grant approved through congress for an innovative Youth Business School in Osceola County.
 Partnered with legendary author Mary Pope Osborne and delivered 3,150 Magic Tree House books worth $19,000.00 to underserved Title I schools.
 Provided $30,000.00 worth of books to schools to provide Classroom Libraries to support Summer Literacy and Academic Acceleration.
 Wrote over $350,000,000.00 in foundation grants to nonprofits and private schools across the state to support low-income students.
 Wrote a crucial $100,000.00 grant that fed 1,000 homeless students for five months.
 Established a partnership with two major Central Florida Healthcare companies to provide healthy snacks to needy communities and low-income/homeless students.
 Established the Imani Foster Scholarship Fund, which gives $500.00 scholarships to African American High-School Seniors.
 Provided five-hundred backpacks and school supplies to underserved students and schools for the beginning of the 2022 school year.
 Wrote and managed $245,000,000.00 in ESSER (CARES) and ARP grants to support students, schools, and teachers affected by COVID for a prominent school district.