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Character Education is everybody's business!
The Golden Rule Foundation, founded as a charity, performs as a service organization. It seeks the engagement of American children and adults in building character through generosity and service to others…fostering world citizenship through the exchange of community values and challenges across our global neighborhoods is the driving force of our international programs.
Brief History
The Golden Rule Foundation (GRF) was created in 1999 as a resource for educators to teach children to give to others by following The Golden Rule:
“Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You.”
From its beginning, GRF taught children the values of personal philanthropy by seeding hundreds of hand-on school children through these projects, we took character education to the state and national level by becoming Florida’s sponsor of the State Schools of Character Award program. This program, allied with the national Character Education Partnership (CEP) in Washington, D.C., recognizes exemplary Florida schools who then become eligible to apply for recognition as a “National School of Character” and to obtain a national outreach giant.
Today, GRF solicits and engages business partners in numerous philanthropic activities. Golden Rule Community Projects, a “brain child of Henry Vales,” are collaborative service learning projects that connect partners from the private, corporate, and public sectors with community volunteers to accomplish a common philanthropic purpose.
GRF is now moving to the next level by fostering community projects that include an international component. Projects incorporate aspects of GRF’s character education, service learning {link to service learning part on website}, and social marketing portfolios and may be local, statewide, national or international in scope, enabling children, teachers, adults, and State Schools of Character to extend their learning, to connect with people of other cultures, and to make a difference in the world. All of this is made possible by the generosity of business sponsors, community partners, and individual donors.
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