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The Belk Foundation Educator Express Features Heart Executive Director Emily Elliott

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The Belk Foundation’s Educator Express posts quick interviews from leaders of partner organizations and other “trailblazers in education.”

In 2015, The Belk Foundation awarded $30,000 to Heart Math Tutoring.
The Belk Foundation’s mission is to invest in schools and organizations that work aggressively to ensure all students graduate from high school and continue on an intentional path toward college, career and life. Heart shares The Foundation’s belief that that education is a cornerstone of a productive … continue reading

GEM Grant Helps Heart Math Tutoring Expand Impact on Social Mobility in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jan. 19, 2016 – A $50,000 grant from Global Endowment Management Foundation (GEM), has helped Heart Math Tutoring (Heart) – a nonprofit group dedicated to helping students in high-poverty concentration schools develop math skills and academic confidence – expand its impact on social mobility in Charlotte.

Through its employee-led grant cycle, the GEM Foundation provided a $50,000 grant to Heart over two years including $40,000 in December 2014 and the $10,000 in December 2015. The $40,000 grant allowed Heart … continue reading

Billingsville Family Night

Watch this third grader show what she knows at family night. She has learned the parts of 10, and she’s ready to quiz her tutor!

Combinations to 10 is the title of Heart’s third concept notebook. It is considered the linchpin within the curriculum, as so many higher level skills depend on the ability to compose and decompose numbers up to 10.

The student shown in this video now knows all the ways that 10 can be broken into two parts, as demonstrated by naming the missing piece … continue reading

North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Awards Heart Math Tutoring $25,000 Grant to Expand Program

Heart Math Tutoring is proud to announce that we have received a $25,000 grant from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation’s Ribbon of Hope program to expand the volunteer math tutoring program to a new school site for the 2016-17 school year.

“We are excited to support the expansion of this very important math program” said Marilyn Foote-Hudson, Executive Director at the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation.

The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation emphasizes the importance of science, health, and education in North Carolina. Funding from Ribbon of Hope … continue reading

Global Endowment Management Sponsors Heart at Westerly Hills

Heart Math Tutoring at Westerly Hills Academy was made possible by a generous $40,000 grant from Global Endowment Management (GEM Foundation) in December 2014. Eight GEM team members also joined Heart as tutors this year.

This grant allows 56 students at Westerly Hills Academy to receive one hour of structured one-on-one math tutoring per week from September to May. This valuable resource would not be available to Westerly Hills otherwise.  Students work with their tutors to build foundational math skills … continue reading