Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, Miami-Dade School Board members, school district administrators and interested citizens

Superintendent’s Special Recognition for members of the “M-DCPS Angel Patrol”

Wednesday, March 9, 2016
11 a.m.

School Board Administration Building, Auditorium
1450 N.E. Second Ave.
Miami, FL  33132

Superintendent Carvalho will honor 10 local, philanthropic individuals – dubbed the “Angel Patrol” for always stepping forward to take care of the district’s needy students.

·  Karen and Jonathan Fryd - South Florida Youth Foundation - have donated tens of thousands of dollars to help hundreds of homeless and needy students via the foundation, but just as important, with their personal involvement.

·  Mark and Honey Revitz – Vista Memorial Park – have provided dozens of funerals and burials at no cost for children whose parents cannot afford the services.

·  Paulette Pfeiffer - Silent Victims of Crime – empowers children of incarcerated parents through positive mentoring and educational enrichment. She collaborates with local prisons to sponsor father/daughter dances and events uniting sons with their fathers.

·  Gloria Tucker and her Macy’s Miami Beach Store Team help homeless students keep up with the latest fashion with sales at Macy’s and fashion shows through Project UP-START.

·  Julie Grimes Heafey is an advocate for our hospitality academies, and is directly involved in our schools helping students and with the Foundation for Educational Initiatives, Inc.

·  Melissa Mc Caughan White – Key Biscayne Foundation – connects organizations to programs in Miami-Dade public schools. She helped create a sister city initiative between Key Biscayne and Liberty City to help fund projects so all students can have the same school experiences.

·  John Batchelor - Batchelor Foundation – funds a program that teaches baking skills to young adults with special needs. He also funded Project UP-START supporting homeless students.

·  Matthew Foreman - Himan Brown Charitable Trust – supports individual schools throughout the county and provides funds for various projects such as after-care programs and is the sole funder for the teen outreach program: Girl Power. The firm also partners with the Key to Giving matching program to award 100 percent matched donations to 16 organizations.

Diana Venturini, Director, Fund and Resource Development, Office of Community Engagement, 305-995-1367; DVenturini@dadeschools.net.