About Us


Innovative Non-profit Organization

Bright Mind is an educational nonprofit. We are a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization and a 2019 recipient of Guidestar’s Bronze Star for transparency. A robust operations team guides our work. We are proudly volunteer-based.

Enrichment Programming

Bright Mind offers tuition-free enrichment classes, one-time programs, camps, and micro-classes (10-minute or shorter lessons at the start or end of allied organizations’ classes or events), for children and adults. Please contact us if you are interested in programming for your community, in the US or beyond.

Diverse Network

We are a highly diverse network of like-minded socially-engaged educators and allied professionals located around the US and world. Our team features curriculum developers and many types of educators. We are absolutely passionate about Bright Mind’s work.

Proven Curricula

Our unique materials are the result of decades of teaching experience and mastery. They are for children and adults, and include scope and sequence documents, assessment materials, and comprehensive operational planning documents.

Our Approach

We aim to foster the following in students, both children and adults:

● Well-Being: a holistic approach to help students focus as individuals, as scholars, and as community members

● Tenacity: inspiring students to achieve the highest levels academically

● Curiosity: through exploratory activities

● Creativity: incorporating the arts continually, solving problems in new and exciting ways

Wellness is at the heart of our approach, as a way to help students to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

What Community Wellness means to us:

  • tuition-free programs of excellence, notably for those who lack educational options
  • embracing diversity, including support for those in challenging circumstances
  • enriching students at all levels of need and learning
  • commitment to creating a community-driven progressive public school in the near future
  • community-centered– deeply integrated academically and socially within the larger community

Programming

Here are some recent programming highlights! We’ll be highlighting other Bright Mind programming here shortly.

Partnerships

–Partnership with Baltimore-area Kiddie Academy, a Department of State- and federally-accredited nursery school and educational childcare center, with Bright Mind providing ongoing teaching to 0-5 year-old students.
–Ongoing organizational partner of Global Dignity. Its work has reached 1 million students in 2019, and it counts Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu as an international honorary board member and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a longtime supporter. Bright Mind has provided programming.

Classes

Ongoing Bright Mind classes and co-programming in the Baltimore area, New York City, and Ellicott City (MD).

Mentoring

Ongoing in California and the Philadelphia area.

Community Workshops & Projects

–Fall 2019 workshop in Binghamton, NY
–We have created two 3-part yearlong wellness projects, one to counter youth-on-youth violence and the other to provide education to immigrant communities. We will be rolling out these programs in their entireties.

Our Team

This is our board. Click here for their and other team members’ bios.

Jennifer Griffin
Bright Mind Chairperson
Terrence Calhoun
Bright Mind Vice-Chairperson / Treasurer
Martin Brooks
Bright Mind Secretary
Craig Kaufman
Bright Mind Executive Director

Support Us

Bright Mind is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit, with an 80% success rate in seeking institutional support. We are volunteer-based, so your support will go extra far toward helping us educate children and their communities!

Click here for how to Support Us:

-Donating: Paypal, checks, AmazonSmile, bequests, and more, are welcomed.
-Asking your company, community institutions, co-workers, and friends to support our work.
-Requesting new classes for your community.
-Spreading the word to co-workers and potential collaborators.
-Donating in-kind: laptops and more are needed.
-Volunteering: Volunteers are always needed.

Click for How to Support Us

We look forward to hearing from you!



Contact Us

info@brightmindenrichment.org