Taxpedite Partners
Welcome to our Partner’s page. Taxpedite has partnered with several organizations in an effort to support education. This works by you selecting an organization, and beginning your return. By doing so, Taxpedite automatically sends the organization you selected $10. That’s right, at no additional cost to you, Taxpedite is supporting education. This is our way of giving back to the communities we serve. If you would like to learn more about any one of the listed organizations, please follow the link to their website.
Are you involved with a non-profit organization that supports education? Would you like to participate in our Taxucation Program? Contact us at taxucation@taxpedite.com.
Partners:
- Jumpstart
- National Hispanic Institute
- Urban Business Initiative
- Writers in the Schools (WITS)
- YES Prep Public Schools
Jumpstart
Every child enters the world with potential. Yet without the involvement of a caring adult, there is no guarantee that he or she will reach that promise. Enter Jumpstart. For over 12 years, we've been bringing at-risk preschool children and caring adults together. Working alongside their parents and a strong community, Jumpstart builds relationships that focus on building literacy, in combination with social and emotional readiness. Time and again, we've seen how consistent, committed and caring one-to-one relationships between children and adults help to create a lifelong love of learning. Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed.
For more information: www.jstart.org
National Hispanic Institute
NHI engages Latino youth in intellectual development through leadership experiences that inspire new thinking and compel them to become motivated learners. This type of interaction helps to supply the critical mass of highly educated thinkers needed to eventually transform and lead communities of the future. These were the beliefs and vision that guided the development of the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) in 1979. They continue being the basis for its work 26 years later. Today NHI works with the largest growing constituency of high ability, high achieving, college-bound and college educated Latino youth in the United States. NHI programs engage young men and women as early as their freshman year of high school and continue working with them through undergraduate college studies. Each leadership program demands excellence in education, skill in working with people, and an understanding for organizational and management skills that make change and advancement possible.
For more information: www.nhi-net.org
Urban Business Initiative
The Urban Business Initiative fosters economic independence among inner city business owners and disadvantaged individuals (the disabled, battered women, etc.) by providing self employment or small business training, mentoring, and a business information library. In doing this, we develop the leadership and business skills of our young professional volunteers and create a supportive economic development community.
For more information: www.urbanbusiness.org
Writers
in the Schools (WITS)
Writers in the Schools (WITS) engages children in the pleasure and
power of reading and writing. Since 1983 WITS has sent professional
poets, fiction writers, and playwrights into classrooms in the Houston
area to share their love and knowledge of the written word with students
and teachers. This year WITS writers will work in year-long programs
in over 350 classrooms in order to help students develop their creative
and analytical thinking skills. Although our focus is on at-risk
inner city students, we also offer workshops in art museums, hospitals,
community centers, and private schools.Regardless of where we teach
and whom we teach, our years of experience have shown us that creative
exploration can indeed have a positive effect on the self-confidence
of almost any child, regardless of race, gender or economic standing.
For more information: www.writersintheschools.org
YES Prep Public Schools
Can we expect more from our public schools? The Answer is YES! YES College Preparatory Schools is a network of free, open-enrollment, public schools that prepare low-income students for collegiate success. In 2006, YES will serve nearly 1,500 students on four campuses in the greater Houston area. The comprehensive 6th-12th grade includes a longer school day, Saturday and summer school sessions, access to special enrichment experiences, and an intensive college counseling and alumni program. Since 2001, five classes of YES seniors have graduated and 100% have been accepted to a four-year college. YES graduates have been accepted to 170 schools nationwide and have earned over $10 million in scholarships and financial aid. Most significantly, 85% are the first generation in their family to attend college.
For more information: www.yesprep.org