We’re excited to announce the DPS Community Assembly: Priorities for the Best Year Ever, in partnership with DPS.
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The Durham Public Schools Foundation (DPSF) has launched a partnership with Duke University Health Systems (DUHS) and Durham Public Schools (DPS) to focus on urgent mental health needs of public school communities. The WHOLE Schools Campaign (Wellness | Healing | Opportunity | Learning | Equity) is creating new ways for the school environment to be a holistic, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive support system for everyone.
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This short video (below) shares how Community Schools dig deeper into the problems they’re facing to find root causes and work collaboratively to find the best solutions.
Last Monday, seven DPS principals logged on to a Zoom call to hear from and support each other. They talked about the challenges they are facing with reopening school in the midst of a pandemic to and how to make decisions in a way that is inclusive of many different opinions and expectations.
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Durham Public Schools Foundation and Durham Public Schools Scholarship Foundation have merged, a move that strengthens two organizations whose missions align and whose programs reach across Durham Public Schools. The work of the DPS Scholarship Foundation will continue as programs of DPS Foundation, and the 2021 Scholarship Application has just launched on their website.
DPS Foundation is teaming up with Duke University and Duke Health’s “Doing Good” employee giving program to provide rapid response funds to…
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Although we've met our initial $1.5 million Accelerating Digital Equity Campaign goal, students will need significant ongoing support during this time of crisis and on the other side of it.
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The DPS Foundation has worked closely with the school system and other community partners to allocate campaign funds raised to the most urgent digital equity areas of need. Already, Campaign funds have been deployed to:
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We set out with bold goals back in June 2020 when the DPS Foundation launched the Accelerating Digital Equity Campaign. Fewer than 8 months later, we're excited to announce that we have crossed our Campaign goal line – raising more than $1.5 million to help ensure all DPS students have equitable access to the resources needed for high quality digital learning this year and beyond!
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For the past couple of weeks, 35 DPS students, led by DPS Foundation’s Youth Advisory Council and LEADurham, have been mobilizing to get out the vote.
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