This ONE piece of kitchen equipment helps us serve roughly 24,000 meals per month to students from Kuumba Academy, Great Oaks Charter School, High Road School, Freire Charter School, First State Montessori Academy, and Positive Change Academy. We serve breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks with hot and cold options for our students to select from. We make 80% of our meals from scratch and increase access to reliable nutrition for our students.
Double Stack Steamer
These convection ovens allow us to heat and warm the food we serve to our students for breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. This allows us to prep food ahead of time and raise it to the temperatures required by the FDA, to coordinate the high number of meals being served from our kitchen. Without this steamer, we will not be able to feed our students hot meals.
We need your help to reach our goal of collecting $5,000 to buy a new steamer. On behalf of our 1,600 students in the City of Wilmington, we thank you for your generosity.
About Community Education Building
Mission: To build the best educational support system possible that allows every student who walks through our doors an equitable opportunity to be successful.
The Community Education Building (CEB) has a vision to transform lives through equitable education opportunity.
Our Why: The CEB exists to ensure that every child has an equitable opportunity to succeed in school and is prepared for life after high school. We envision a world where families thrive, and students succeed regardless of their race or zip code. It starts with what we know about the inequities in education and with a recognition that schools can’t do everything alone. We understand that many students are affected by many adversities and come to school with all of that on their shoulders. We believe that student success begins with family stability. We seek to provide every student equitable access to a high-quality education by meeting the needs of the whole child and the whole family.
How We Work: The CEB is an innovative model to ensure that every student in achieves his/her potential. CEB is a connector, a navigator, and a gap filler. We integrate with schools to connect students and their families access to resources and opportunities that mitigate the many different challenges they face. CEB provides students and parents with a navigator that provides coaching, mentorship, and coordination of resources. With a growing network of over 40 partners, we connect or provide needed resources to families. CEB is a learning and growing organization with a focus on authentic and trusting relationships with our community. Through these relationships, we are responsive to the changing landscape of challenges and opportunities in our community.
What This Looks Like: Roughly 1,300 students in grades K-college come to the CEB to learn and grow. Our population is primarily Wilmington residents. We owns and operates the 9 story former MBNA building which has been transformed into an educational hub with 4 schools, and 6 mission aligned nonprofit organizations. Together with CEB, our tenant partners with expertise across five areas of wellness to provide a holistic community of care and support for both students and families. In addition to services provided by our partners, we directly support students through our Student Advocacy System and families through our Family Resource Center.
History: Thanks to the generosity of Bank of America more than a decade ago, Longwood has been on a journey to change education in Wilmington. In 2012 The Longwood Foundation was gifted BBIV from Bank of America and supported the 270,000 sq ft building renovation to create an integrated home for schools and social service partners. Longwood established the Community Education Building as a non-profit to manage the building and coordinate the efforts of the resident partners with the purpose of support schools and students so that our coordinated whole is greater than its parts.
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