Miami Beach Education Foundation

The Miami Beach chamber Education Foundation also spearheaded the school healthcare initiative to provide on-site healthcare in three Miami Beach feeder pattern schools. The three schools - ruth k. broad k-8 center, north Beach elementary and treasure island elementary - previously did not have access to medical attention, but thanks to the efforts of the Foundation and the unprecedented collaboration with five municipalities and more than a dozen organizations, they now do. With the funds raised, the initiative was able to fully implement the health connect in our schools model, currently utilized throughout miami-dade county public schools by children's trust, in the feeder pattern schools. Each school now has a nurse, medical assistant and social worker on staff.

Current components provided by the Miami Beach chamber's Education Foundation include a variety of donations for scholarship funds supported by events hosted throughout the year as well as programming to help educate the future leaders of the community. Proceeds help fund programming costs for the international baccalaureate (ib) programs available at all the public schools in the city of Miami Beach, a unique school system in itself as there is a feeder pattern program with five public schools on Miami Beach feeding into one public high school. The ib program helps develop the intellectual, personal, emotional, and social skills of students from age 3 to 19 to live, learn, and work in a rapidly globalizing world. In addition to this program, the Education Foundation is able to provide scholarships at the end of each school year to graduating seniors at Miami Beach senior high school.