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Grimes Education Foundation, Inc. 

  • Training future leaders who advocate for excellence, equity, and access toward quality education, work, and business opportunities.

  • The mission of GRIMES EDUCATION FOUNDATION is to advocate, develop, organize, promote, and publish information, policies, and programs in pursuit of cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary leadership development. 

  • We believe when communities of interest are organized and properly trained, leadership germinates serving as a transformative force for students, families, communities, business, & labor within a competitive “global” frontier.

Grimes Education Foundation is a California-based 501c3 non-profit organization connecting the capabilities of literacy and learning to the resources of private sector, public sector, and nonprofit sector organizations in developing partnerships of greater cultural, intellectual, and entrepreneurial global insight toward innovative "glocal" leadership. 

 

Who We Are:

Grimes Education Foundation, Inc. focuses on delivering value-added inputs to global and domestic educational entities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector. Through education, cultural understanding, and innovative thinking we ensure capability combined with the synergy of external and internal supporting resources for the customized execution of culturally complex projects. Additionally, GEF is dedicated to providing interactive learning experiences for educators, students, scholars, and professionals furthering positive global synergies and alliances.

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What We Do: (Past Iteration)

Grimes Education Foundation encourages global logistical alliances between public, private, community-nonprofit, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) connecting students, teachers, and schools to foster opportunities of cultural, intellectual, and entrepreneurial exchange. This education supply chain focus on K-12 student to student interaction, K-12 teacher to teacher interaction, and K-14 workforce development exploration enhances the education value chain and sustainable competitive advantage. We anticipate the establishment of independent cultural exchange programs linked to literacy, entrepreneurship, and language immersion; and furthermore, by assisting with closing the digital divide and distribution of educational related materials, we promote domestic and global education/business synergies through collaborative partnerships.

 

Value-Added Services / Programs

  1. Global Education Ambassadors

  2. Cultural and Academic Exchanges 

  3. Global Book Delivery

  4. Strategic and Collaborative Partnering

  5. Public School Linkages

  6. Non-Profit Management / Development 

  7. Knowledge Partnership Cultivation

  8. Urban Education / Urban Economics 

  9. Independent Education Global Ambassador

  10. Global Citizen 

  11. Cultural Summer Academies

  12. Education Global Exchanges

  13. Closing the Digital Divide

  14. Executive Education Management

  15. Foster Youth Strategies

 

 

CULTURAL EXCHANGE 

Grimes Education Foundation works with domestic and global organizations to foster goodwill educational exchanges between schools and students through programs such as Teacher & Student Exchange, Sister Schools Program, and Cultural Summer Academies.

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LANGUAGE IMMERSION ADVOCATE

Grimes Education Foundation works with global & domestic schools to develop and establish language immersion programs. We assist in the development of seamless immersion programs to ensure continuity in language proficiency development. 

 

INDEPENDENT EDUCATION AMBASSADOR

Grimes Education Foundation acts as an unofficial International Education Diplomat and Advisory.

Closing the Digital Divide

Grimes Education Foundation works as an intermediary with participating organizations and key knowledge partners seeking to close the Digital Divide within the education supply chain.

 

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

Grimes Education Foundation works with school districts and key knowledge partners to collect and distribute useable new and surplus textbooks and other educational materials to economically emerging regions and countries.

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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Grimes Education Foundation may engage global, federal, state, and local agencies to assist with the development of innovative strategic plans to coordinate various education, training, and employment programs into an integrated workforce system. 

Our Previous Partners:

Twin Rivers Unified School District

  • Grant High School

  • Foothill High School

Global Education Alliance

FundimarMargie

Evergreen Education

TSS

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Advisory Board: (Not updated)

  1. Jelena Konieczny, M.A., (Ph.D. Candidate) Technology Literacy (Europe)

  2. Celia Ruiz, JD, Partner, Ruiz & Sperrow Law Firm

  3. Barbara McNeil, Ph.D., Professor (Canada)

  4. Faith Chao, PH.D., Professor (US/China)

  5. Cherie Cabral, Executive, Construction Industry

  6. Muhamet  Dia, MBA, CFO, FabLogistics, Inc.

  7. Quynda Fleming, M.A., J.D., Attorney 

  8. Jared Grimes, B.A., Business Technology Specialist 

  9. Max Medina, A.I.A., Principal WLC Architects

  10. Bruce Dong Cai, MBA, Owner, DH Alliance

  11. Donna Burke, Retired AT&T Executive

  12. Dru Brown, Owner, Agcel

  13. Sonney Chong, D.D.S., CAPITAL

  14. Jordan Knighton, A.I.A., President, NTD Architects

  15. Scott Henry, MBA, Vice President, De La Rosa, Investment Advisors

  16. Dale McKinney, JD, Attorney

  17. Tahir Ahad, MBA, CPA, President, Total School Solutions

  18. Mellissa Truitt, B.A., Certified Construction Manager, Cumming, Inc.

  19. Patrick Kennedy, JD, Attorney, Patrick Kennedy Law Firm

  20. Gloria Grimes Banks

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