Our vision is that children living in the Children’s Corridor, regardless of birth or circumstances, have access to high quality education, comprehensive health care, and a supportive environment.
Businessman and philanthropist Sam Gary explains our goals for the Children’s Corridor, a 20-year effort to support the development of several targeted neighborhoods so that every child living there will graduate from high school and have a medical home. “Education and health care are the civil rights issues of our generation,” says Piton Foundation CEO Terry Minger in this candid interview.
Joni Gilmore has her four-year old twins enrolled in the Early Excellence preschool program in Cole, where the boys are being prepared cognitively, socially, emotionally and physically for success in kindergarten. And as a parent, Joni is benefiting too. Read more
Large-scale change, like that envisioned in the Children’s Corridor, requires broad cross-sector coordination. The Piton Foundation will create an enabling platform that supports communication, collaboration and innovation.
Data is a lens through which we can explore and transform the Children’s Corridor. By adding context to numbers, data become a powerful tool for change. Consider these sobering facts:
- More than 54,000 children live in the Children’s Corridor
- Nearly 35,000 of them are at risk
- More than 80% of schools in the Corridor are under-performing