KnowledgeWorks Foundation provides funding and leadership for initiatives aimed at ensuring all students an education that prepares them for success in college, career and life in the 21st century. The work focuses on redesigning urban high schools, increasing college access, enhancing workforce education, and creating a seamless education system.

Notable change can occur, but it will be an arduous path. Visit the KnowledgeWorks Foundation to learn about more about its unique approach to education.

Assisting our public schools to become Community Learning Centers is the wave of the future – and key to strengthening our children, youth and families. Read this article from Charleston Mayor Joe Riley to learn more:
Community Learning Center Action Plan by Joe P. Riley, Jr. (22 KB)

darkness to light - the Mission:

•  to diminish the incidence and impact of child sexual abuse, so that more children will grow up healthy and whole
•  our programs will raise awareness of the prevalence and consequences of child sexual abuse by educating adults about the steps they can take to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to the reality of child sexual abuse
Darkness to Light's public awareness campaign seeks to raise awareness of the prevalence and consequences of child sexual abuse. Our ads are a "call to action" encouraging adults to call or go online for free materials that educate adults to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Darkness to Light is also actively educating adults through its newest initiative, Stewards of Children, a sexual abuse prevention training program that provides frontline training for organizations and corporations that serve children and youth.

In May of 2008, the SC Department of Education became the first in the nation to commit to a Statewide Adult Sexual Misconduct Prevention Initiative.  Their commitment to implement Stewards of Children will include the training of 86 Facilitators who will be responsible for training 40% of the first 10,000 instructional and instructional related staff – administrators, teachers, guidance counselors and other professional staff. The remaining 60% of will be trained online to ensure the immediate and successful training in each community while also factoring in available resources to reach our initial goal of training 20% of all educational staff between July 2008 and July 2009.

Personal Pathways to Success is an education initiative designed to do one simple thing—make students better-educated South Carolinians. The initiative's programs will provide all public school students with a more focused curriculum and the flexibility to choose coursework and job training opportunities aligned with their individual aspirations and abilities.
      
The result will be a better-prepared workforce, which will improve South Carolina's economy and quality of life.

SCPEN.NET   South Carolina Parenting Education Network
Under the leadership of a group of certified parenting instructors, facilitators and educators in Horry, Georgetown and Marlboro Counties, a parenting education movement is underway.  It is in the first stages of creation and development with plans and dreams to spread the membership and service organization state-wide to serve as an additional educational resource, supporting the desires of parents and child caregivers seeking to add to their effective parenting and family management skills.