{"id":3349,"date":"2010-06-28T05:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T05:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floc.org\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2018-10-04T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T05:29:00","slug":"in-short-we-teach-we-empower-and-we-transform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/in-short-we-teach-we-empower-and-we-transform\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIn short, we teach, we empower, and we transform.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3349 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/in-short-we-teach-we-empower-and-we-transform\/20100610_flochildrendinner_050-2\/'><img width=\"942\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100610_flochildrendinner_050-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100610_flochildrendinner_050-1.jpg 942w, https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100610_flochildrendinner_050-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100610_flochildrendinner_050-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/in-short-we-teach-we-empower-and-we-transform\/20100604_flochildren_129\/'><img width=\"680\" height=\"942\" src=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100604_flochildren_129.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100604_flochildren_129.jpg 680w, https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100604_flochildren_129-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/in-short-we-teach-we-empower-and-we-transform\/20100604_flochildren_213\/'><img width=\"942\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100604_flochildren_213.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100604_flochildren_213.jpg 942w, https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100604_flochildren_213-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100604_flochildren_213-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The following is a transcript from a speech given by Tim Payne, FLOC\u2019s Executive Director at the 2010 Fundraising Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, good morning and welcome \u2014 and if you weren\u2019t here for the opening remarks, I\u2019m Tim Payne, executive director of FLOC.\u00a0 Thank you for joining us.<\/p>\n<p>Now because this is FLOC, please join me in a brief educational exercise.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to ask you to stand if you were among the first generation in your family to earn a post-secondary degree. I stand with you:\u00a0 I\u2019m the first person in my family to earn a college degree. OK, thanks \u2014 you may be seated.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all of you who were just standing, and frankly everyone in the room who has a post-secondary degree, take a second to remember how you got there.\u00a0 What were some of the challenges you may have faced? What type of support did you have? How has having that degree impacted that your life?<\/p>\n<p>My parents didn\u2019t go to college, but I was always told that I could be anything I wanted as long as I worked hard and aimed high.\u00a0 I graduated from The George Washington University in 2001 (Go Colonial\u2019s!) and I joined FLOC\u2019s staff full time the day after our graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Now consider that fewer than 10% of DC high school students are likely to earn a post-secondary degree.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Fewer than 10%.<\/em>\u00a0Just think about all of that wasted opportunity \u2013 for the individuals involved, for their families, and for our community.<\/p>\n<p>To me, that is simply unacceptable.\u00a0 There is plenty of compelling evidence that when students are challenged academically and given high expectations, they can and do achieve at higher levels.<\/p>\n<p>The students that FLOC serves face many more obstacles that I did.\u00a0 But I see hope in every one of those kids and I believe they have has as much promise, if not more, than I did when I was there age.<\/p>\n<p>I believe, as a community, we should embrace the power we have to come together and help the next generation realize their potential.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where FLOC and all of you come in.\u00a0 Our experience shows that students from the most challenging situations can complete a high school and post-secondary education if they are encouraged and prepared.<\/p>\n<p>At FLOC, we start in the earliest stages of elementary school and stay with our kids, regardless of where they live or what type of school they attend, creating an educational pipeline to college and career success.<\/p>\n<p>In elementary school, students start with weekly one-on-one tutoring with professionally trained volunteers. We teach fundamental reading, writing, math, and critical thinking skills.\u00a0 For example, if you walked into one of our classrooms you might see a third grader and her tutor throwing a ball into a trashcan.\u00a0 What you might not realize is they are working on core math skills.<\/p>\n<p>In middle school, students attend weekly workshops with our experts in leadership development, diversity education, and community engagement. During the summer, they are invited to climb, canoe, and learn about green living at our Outdoor Education Center. Stop by our middle school program, and you might see our young leaders learning about global distribution of wealth and inequality by slicing up a chocolate cake.<\/p>\n<p>In high school FLOC students receive personalized college and career planning with dedicated, weekly coaching. Last month, while many of us were following the NCAA tournament and filling out our brackets, our high school students used that event to research 65 different opportunities for post-secondary education.\u00a0 Our post-secondary scholars are eligible for scholarship funds along with guidance and continued support, to get on \u00a0\u2014 and stay on \u2014 a successful college or career track.<\/p>\n<p>All together, about 25 staff and 300 volunteers serve nearly 500 students a year, including the 57 scholars who have already graduated from high school and are currently pursuing the post-secondary dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Through all of our activities, we provide powerful experiences that foster intellectual, social, and emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In short, we teach, we empower, and we transform.\u00a0 These words really capture our work.\u00a0 Each of our programs\u00a0<em>teach<\/em>; each of our programs\u00a0<em>empower<\/em>; and all of our programs combined help students\u00a0<em>transform<\/em>\u00a0their futures.<\/p>\n<p>You can see this in the student who is not afraid to read in front of the class, because his tutor helped him gain not only reading skills, but greater confidence in himself.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it in our middle school students who realized their ability to make positive change and organized a cell-phone recycling drive to send school supplies to their peers in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>And we see it every time another student takes a risk to pursue a greater learning opportunity, whether it is starting a plumbing apprenticeship, going to a prestigious university, or attending an art school.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very proud to report that for the last three years in a row, 100% of FLOC\u2019s high school seniors have graduated and all are now pursuing post-secondary education. In the lower grades, on average, students improve by one year of grade-level equivalency in reading and math after just 22 weeks of one-on-one tutoring.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the numbers, these kids are just remarkable; students like Durrell.\u00a0 When I asked Durrell, \u201cWhen did you start coming to FLOC?\u201d his response was pretty typical. \u201cOh, I don\u2019t know, when I was a little kid.\u201d\u00a0 Now if you could picture Durrell, 6\u2019 2\u2019 \u2013 played defensive line on his football team \u2013 I\u2019m not sure he was ever a \u2018little kid\u2019\u00a0 In any case, he started with FLOC 14 years ago, when he was in the first grade and falling behind in reading. Since then, Durrell has been involved with every possible opportunity FLOC has provided, from his days in elementary school through his college experience.\u00a0 When I asked him to describe the impact FLOC has had on his life he said, \u201cIt\u2019s simple, in the acronym \u2013 For Love of Children \u2013 it provides immediate rewards and benefits; its about uplifting children; keeping kids close and down to earth.\u00a0 FLOC kept me challenged and kept me going.\u00a0 It\u2019s the reason I\u2019m in college today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had the opportunity to watch Durell develop into the man he is today, a senior at Bowling Green University, set to graduate in a just a few short weeks with a degree in Sports Management. And every time I see one of FLOC\u2019s students, I see the same hope and potential I saw in Durrell some 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For transformations like Durrell\u2019s and the hundreds of other students we serve, we need your help.\u00a0 Our capacity is directly correlated to your support and action.<\/p>\n<p>And so I\u2019d like to ask you to ask yourself \u2013 how can\u00a0<em>I<\/em>\u00a0help teach, empower and transform?<\/p>\n<p>Its pretty easy, we need your time, your ideas and your resources.<\/p>\n<p>Give a few hours of each week to tutor one of our amazing kids.\u00a0 Come and join our middle school students in cleaning the Anacostia River.\u00a0 Introduce a high schooler to your career and bring them into your workplace for a day.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Our waitlist never goes away, and every volunteer who can commit 2 hours a week means one more student we can serve.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or offer your unique skills and resources like event planning, technology, or media relations. Tell your friends about FLOC.\u00a0 Introduce us to your network.\u00a0\u00a0 Come to a FLOC 101 tour and see our programs in action, and bring a friend along. Open your checkbook and give generously, if you are able.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>New networks and new investments for FLOC mean more opportunities for our kids<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However you are moved, I hope you\u00a0<em>will<\/em>\u00a0invest in For Love of Children. Rest assured:\u00a0 Your time and resources\u00a0<em>will<\/em>\u00a0make a difference for young people like Durrell, Luis, and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m proud to be a part of advancing a vision of our community in which\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0students \u2013 regardless of the situation they were born into \u2013 can receive a great education and achieve their dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in advancing that vision.\u00a0 I leave you with this challenge:\u00a0 Help us teach, help us empower, and help transform the futures of our students.\u00a0\u00a0 Because 10% is simply unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a transcript from a speech given by Tim Payne, FLOC\u2019s Executive Director at the 2010 Fundraising Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, good morning and welcome \u2014 and if you weren\u2019t here for the opening remarks, I\u2019m Tim Payne, executive director of FLOC.\u00a0 Thank you for joining us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cIn short, we teach, we empower, and we transform.\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cIn short, we teach, we empower, and we transform.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The following is a transcript from a speech given by Tim Payne, FLOC\u2019s Executive Director at the 2010 Fundraising Breakfast.  \u201cAgain, good morning and welcome \u2014 and if you weren\u2019t here for the opening remarks, I\u2019m Tim Payne, executive director of FLOC.\u00a0 Thank you for joining us.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/in-short-we-teach-we-empower-and-we-transform\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FLOC-For the Love of Children\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-06-28T05:23:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-10-04T05:29:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20100610_flochildrendinner_050.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"384\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"256\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"StaffFloc\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\">\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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