to provide summer enrichment through a research-based and multicultural program model that supports K-12 scholars and their families through five essential components: high quality academic and character-building enrichment; parent and family involvement; civic engagement and social action; intergenerational servant leadership development; and nutrition, health and mental health.

Let’s all pull together!

By fostering environments that support children and young adults (known as “scholars” in the CDF Freedom Schools program) to excel and believe in their ability to make a difference in themselves and in their families, schools, communities, country, and world with hope, education and action.

There is something inside so strong; I know that I can make it, though you’re doing me wrong.

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and the work of young people during the Mississippi Freedom summer of 1954.

It’s an empowerment model - children learn they can make a difference in themselves, their families, their community, and their world with hope, education and action.

Marian Wright Edelman

St. Cyprian’s, Christ Church, St. Christopher’s, St. John’s, Holy Trinity, and Holy Cross.