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The Education Fund Receives First-Ever $1 Million USD Grant from 2021 TD Ready Challenge
2021年TD Ready挑战将帮助立博中文版应对2019冠状病毒病大流行造成的预计学习损失

MIAMI, Jan. 26, 2022 – The Education Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to developing innovative programs for public school students and educators in Miami-Dade County, was recently named by TD as a 2021 TD Ready Challenge recipient, receiving a $1 million USD grant for its ‘Edible Outdoor Eco-labs to Accelerate Learning’ programming.

Through these Eco-labs, which are forest gardens installed on school grounds, The Education Fund provides students with hands-on lessons in science. 加速学生的学业成功——67%的学生提高了他们的科学水平——该项目还为迈阿密戴德县的混凝土社区带来了当地的新鲜食物和树冠. Thanks to the $1 million TD Ready Challenge grant, tens of thousands of students in 51 program schools will receive a nature-based, hands-on approach to math that builds on students’ knowledge while eliciting student thinking. Thanks to TD, The Education Fund and Miami-Dade County Public Schools will ameliorate the significant academic losses in math suffered by our students due to the pandemic.

在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，北美各地的立博中文版我们的时事通讯多次关闭和重新开放，以遏制病毒的传播, with students and teachers quickly adapting to online instruction. As a result, research predicted students could experience significant learning loss. Given the potential widespread and long-lasting impacts of predicted learning loss, the issue was selected as the problem statement for the 2021 TD Ready Challenge. Eligible non-profit and charitable organizations were encouraged to submit their innovative, 可扩展的解决方案，以帮助在数学和阅读方面遭受大流行相关学习损失的K-12年级学生受到不成比例的影响.

“TD Ready承诺的支持将帮助立博中文版通过户外生态实验室将创新项目扩展到更多的学生。. 这一规划不仅对帮助我们一些最脆弱的学生加快学习和克服与大流行病有关的学习损失至关重要, but also fostering connections among classmates," said Nick Miceli, Regional President for Metro Florida at TD Bank. "As the first-ever $1 million USD TD Ready Challenge recipient here in the U.S., 我们非常感谢立博中文版在我们当地社区所做的一切，并迫不及待地想看到这种支持将产生的影响. Congratulations on this incredible accomplishment."

“TD Ready挑战赛的100万美元赠款将帮助我们在如何使用户外生态实验室方面迈出一大步, expanding the power of these outdoor forest classrooms to significantly accelerate math knowledge and performance,” says Linda Lecht, president of The Education Fund. “With this grant, we change the dynamic for students, who have lost almost 20 percentage points in math achievement. Studies show students who learn in nature are more engaged, more attentive, more self-regulated, and less stressed. To recover from COVID-induced learning loss, students desperately need the cutting-edge learning methods our program and this TD grant provide.”

A key component of the TD Ready Commitment, the Bank's corporate citizenship platform, TD Ready挑战是一项年度倡议，旨在为专注于帮助解决社会问题的项目提供资金. Acting as a springboard for social innovation, TD established the TD Ready Challenge in 2018, 自那以来，该公司已向其北美业务范围内的50家组织提供了4000多万加元的资金，以支持在TD Ready承诺:金融安全的四个驱动因素中确定的可扩展解决方案, Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities and Better Health.

In total, TD awarded $10 million CAD for the 2021 TD Ready Challenge to organizations in Canada and the U.S. that are addressing predicted learning loss in math and reading.

To learn more about the Ready Challenge and for a full list of this year's winners, please visit http://www.td.com/us/en/about-us/communities/ready-commitment/funding-opportunities/ready-challenge/

About The Education Fund
Raising more than $70 million to improve education for public school students in Miami-Dade County, The Education Fund focuses on bringing innovative methods to our schools, informing the community about public education, and encouraging private sector investment in public education. The Education Fund is currently directing Food Forests for Schools, a first-in-the-nation effort to install food forests as Eco-labs on school grounds; Ideas with IMPACT, Miami-Dade’s only district-wide best practices network; Ocean Bank Center for Educational Materials, the state’s first free-supplies warehouse and distribution program; and SmartPath, a college and careers service for students. Visit EducationFund.org. Connect with us at @educationfundmiami on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and @educationfund on Twitter.

About The TD Ready Commitment

TD has a long-standing commitment to enriching the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities. As part of its corporate citizenship platform, the TD Ready Commitment, TD is targeting CDN $1 billion (U.S. 到2030年，总共投入7.75亿美元用于四个领域的社区捐赠，这些领域对帮助打开更加包容和可持续的明天至关重要, Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities and Better Health. Through the TD Ready Commitment, TD aspires to link its business, philanthropy and human capital to help people feel more confident - not just about their finances, but also in their ability to achieve their personal goals in a changing world. For further information, visit td.com/tdreadycommitment.