Community Wellness to help students thrive academically and socially
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Here are some recent programming highlights! We’ll be highlighting other Bright Mind programming here shortly.
–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.
Ongoing Bright Mind classes and co-programming in the Baltimore area, New York City, and Ellicott City (MD).
Ongoing in California and the Philadelphia area.
–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 have created partnerships with community organizations and will be rolling out these programs in their entireties.
Bright Mind is deeply grateful for in-kind or monetary support from many organizations including:
This is our board. Click here for their and other team members’ bios.
-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.