Pencil Foundation

Programs: Pencil partners and pencil academy partners are businesses and organizations committed to student success through organized, coordinated activities that match the unique attributes of each partner with the specific needs of each school or academy. Schools turn to us and our wide network of business contacts to help them find partners that are a good match for their school. Businesses and organizations turn to us and our comprehensive knowledge of nashville schools when they want to connect with a school where they can help students. Pencil also serves as the coordinator of these ongoing partnership relationships. We facilitate communication, provide activity ideas, advise on volunteer management, and help the school and partner develop a year-long strategic plan. In addition, pencil hosts the (continued) pencilmein615. Org website where schools, partners and individuals log their volunteer hours and in-kind gifts. Pencil also shares its knowledge with communities accross the nation that are interested in building a network of strong partnerships within their school district.

the lp pencil box makes sure students have the school supplies necessary for success in the classroom -- and that teachers don't have to spend their own money to buy those supplies. Through generous donations from businesses, organizations and individuals, the box is stocked with school supplies such as pencils, pens, notebooks, crayons, scissors, reading books, backpacks and much more. Every metro teacher can make two shopping trips per school year free of charge.

pencil's six school-based family resource centers (frcs) act as a hub for community resources, helping families navigate outside agencies that can assist with social, emotional and physical needs. Frcs stock emergency food/clothing and develop services tailored to their school population, such as ged and english-language classes, parenting classes, eye exams and glasses, individual counseling and student leadership groups.

pencil served as a coordinating agency and an anchor partner with naza (nashville after zone alliance) during the 2017 fiscal year. Naza contracts with a coordinating agency to establish afterschool zones which provide afterschool engagement for middle school students in metro nashville public schools. The coordinating agency is an established and qualified provider responsible for ensuring that high-quality comprehensive afterschool programming is delivered on-site at middle schools (or at convenient alternative sites where preferable). The coordinating agency implements the coordinated scheduling, marketing, recruitment, tracking, and transportation processes developed by naza. The coordinating agency uses its knowledge of the resources and barriers in that geographic area to maximize effectiveness of these processes and of implementation of the afterschool as a whole. Additionally, as an anchor partner pencil provided programming at individual afterschool sites and met threshold tests of program quality with our pace (pencil academic & career enrichment) program. The curriculum was a stem-based approach with hands-on learning opportunities and engagement with community partners. Pencil ceased both naza and pace work at the end of fiscal year 2017.