Dear Highland Park Community, Education Innovations, Inc. would like to send all of you our best holiday wishes. We would like to remind you of the wonderful organizations that are working hard every day, making Highland Park a great neighborhood for you. I would like to encourage each of you to keep at least one of them in your giving list. Education Innovations, Inc. is working on education at the grassroots level, developing programs that have direct effects on the achievement of children. SchoolSynapse, which we will unveil in the new year will provide a magnet program of sorts in the out-of-school time. This network of after-school, week-end, and summer programs will give students the ability to choose a K-12 specialty around various topics such as Ecology, Architecture, Engineering, Health and Fitness, The Arts, Civics, Entrepreneurship, and Technology. And all this will be available to students in places that are familiar to them, their own neighborhood schools. Look for NatureLAB to sprout at Fulton Academy some time next year. The Union Project continues to champion the arts as a vital form of community development. The Community Club continues to be a forum for neighbors to stay connected to happenings in the community. The Highland Park Community Development Corporation continues to work toward a vibrant business community on Bryant Street, welcoming features at the portals into the park and community, and most important, an improved Mellon Street. Whether your interest is education, the arts, community development, or just a plain community support, there is an organization in Highland Park that would appreciate your support this year. Please consider making a pledge to any one of them. Sincerely Salvador A. Wilcox President & CEO Education Innovations, Inc. s.wilcox@educationinnovations.org 5808 Bryant Street, Suite 2 Pittsburgh, PA 15206 412.363.7707 (voice) 412.363.7706 (fax) Support NatureLAB, our ecology-based out-of-school time experience. NatureLAB will allow children to explore nature while building a sense of stewardship over the earth. Don't throw away your printer cartridges. Allow us to recycle them through our Cash-4-Kids project.