Can providing students with enriching experiences change the way they experience school and help them envision a life outside of poverty? Yes, we believe it can!
Program Information
Most students at Dillard and North Fork Elementary would like to engage in more community and cultural exposure to enhance their personal development. Ranger Good Works provides enriching experiences with community partners for Dillard and North Fork students, faculty, and friends.
Ranger Good Works, along with our extensive list of local partners, hosts community events, visits, and field trips that create an exciting and stimulating school year full of adventure and learning experiences.
Career City
Students look forward to this interactive and unique future-focused experience where they explore diverse career paths and envision their futures. As our most anticipated event each year, the annual Career City allows students to walk through a makeshift city environment, meeting professionals from over 95 local companies and discovering opportunities they never knew existed. This hands-on experience helps students dream beyond their current circumstances and see opportunities that lie ahead.
As career exposure is often limited in under-resourced communities, Career City is essential for broadening their horizons and helping them understand the connection between education and career opportunities.
Field Trips
Many of the students at North Fork or Dillard Elementary have little or no access to the beach, a mall, or even an elevator ride. Ranger Good Works aims to broaden its students’ horizons with field trips to local businesses, museums, civic events, colleges, theaters, and more. Visits can be a simple reception, tour, presentation, and or educational session related to a company or organization. These educational field trips supply students with a window into the world and let them explore what’s outside their own neighborhood – igniting a natural curiosity to learn more. Ranger Good Works works with our community partners to raise funds that pay for transportation to and from field trips as well as nourishment.
Can providing students with enriching experiences change the way they experience school and help them create a vision of life outside of poverty? Yes, we believe it can!
Let’s help Dillard and North Fork Elementary level the playing field and see what can happen when students have more community engagement opportunities!
College Tour Program
Through the College Tour Program, Ranger Good Works is providing Dillard and North Fork Elementary’s 5th grade students with “life changing” college tour experiences that promote dreams. Students get to walk through academic, residential, athletic and administrative buildings on a college campus, meet with the faculty and discuss college programs and speak with on-site college students to discuss campus life.
Many of Dillard and North Fork’s students will be first generation college students, therefore the College Tour is essential to inspire students and develop young minds in order to instill the value of higher education and how to attain it.
College tours include most South Florida Universities and other universities within the State of Florida. Sometimes tours are given for schools out of state as well.
Often we create unique experiences for our scholars. We created a college tour at Florida Atlantic University for our Dillard Elementary students. They stayed in dorms for 3 nights, attended classes, interacted with college students and explored the campus.
Funding is needed for transportation, food, lodging and miscellaneous expenses. Click here to Donate or Contact us to help sponsor a College Tour.
How You Can Help
We are always looking for companies to host community exposure visits for the students we serve! Visits can be a simple reception and tour or up to a 2-hour presentation or education session related to your company or organization. Our goal is to show the students that the world they live in can offer more than what they have witnessed within their school’s five-mile radius. We encourage you to share your story and express how hard work and education pays off in the future!
If you would like to sign your company up to be a host, please contact us at 954-527-0090.
If you would like to help fund this program, please visit our donation page.
Students start dreaming big once they attend the Ranger Good Works Career City at Dillard Elementary School and North Fork Elementary School!
