(View: Mayerson Academy)
The Mayerson Academy is a private non-profit
organization that provides professional development
to school principals, teachers, and other staff.
In its first 7 years of operation it has delivered
more than 1 million participant hours of training
and has established itself as one of the best
of its kind in the country. The Academy has
a primary role with the Cincinnati Public Schools
and reaches out to other districts with its
innovative on-line offerings. It resulted from
collaboration with the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
and the Cincinnati Public School District.
(View:
VIA (Values In Action) Institute)
VIA is a non-profit organization created by
the Foundation to catalyze scientific investigation
of human character strengths. It is founded
on the belief that a sustained and coordinated
scientific effort to understand character will
yield tremendous growth in knowledge and practice
as most all prior scientific efforts have produced.
VIA has produced the preeminent classification
of personal character strengths, a manual summarizing
what we know to date about the various strengths,
and tools for measuring these character strengths
in youth and adults. It works to mobilize research
on the strengths and to bring awareness of new
and promising interventions to youth practitioners,
parents, educators, and business people.
(View: RISE Learning Solutions)
The Foundation established RISE to focus on
training needs of early childhood providers
in pre-schools and child care facilities. RISE’s
mission is to develop and deliver cutting edge
adult distance learning programs for the enrichment
of children, youth, and families, with a special
emphasis on training early childhood providers.
The RISE model integrates broadcasted video
learning events with trained on-site facilitators
and internet support. RISE programming is delivered
throughout the United States and has become
the premiere non-profit provider of video based
distance training in the country.
(View: Inclusion Network)
The Inclusion Network was established by the
Foundation in 1996 to focus exclusively on helping
the Cincinnati community become more inclusive
of people with disabilities in school, at work,
in religious congregations, and in public venues.
The Inclusion Network fields requests from individuals
and organizations for information, referral,
and technical assistance, hosts a fully inclusive
annual awards event, and conducts a variety
of specialty projects.
