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Why Donate to Montessori Family School?

MFS is a nonprofit school (EIN for MFS: 94-2698679) that relies on the funds from our tuition and fundraisers to run a high quality Montessori education for our students. Fundraising events like Giving Tuesday help to supply our Scholarship Program, purchase beautiful new materials, and maintain our school facilities. All of this aids in bringing an award winning program to your children.

Please read the touching letter below from the family of our current student, Eva, about the importance of donating to MFS.

Dear Montessori Family School, 

Our names are María (she/her) and Raymond (he/him), and we are the parents of Eva (she/her) who has been attending Montessori Family School for the last two years. 

We hope you will consider donating generously to the MFS Annual Fund to help keep this amazing place going for generations of children to come and learn and turn into wonderful emotionally intelligent, caring adults. Our daughter Eva's experiences and personal growth at MFS have been invaluable and sending her to this wonderful school has genuinely been one of the best decisions we’ve made as her parents. 

There were many things we had considered when we began searching for a school for Eva. There were qualities we noticed about her, like her resoluteness, empathy, and curiosity that we wanted to nurture. In so many school environments, a child who is a Latina with these traits might be called willful, sensitive, unfocused, or peculiar. For us, we know Eva’s resoluteness, curiosity, and empathy are parts of her essential self, and parts we know she will need to protect and harness in order to survive in this world. 

When we came to Montessori, we knew that even though it seemed out of reach for our family, it was the exact right place she needed to be. At Montessori Family School, we have experienced an environment where Eva has been able to build on her own interests, sense of self, and foster agency and emotional intelligence. 

Because the pandemic had isolated us when she was just 2 years old, we worried about Eva adapting to a structured social and educational setting for the first time. Thankfully, her teachers Kathleen and Sima were really supportive in guiding her. We see her love of learning amplified by the multi-faceted curriculum and learning approaches, with her interest in nature, real-world problem solving, and different ways she is inclined to express herself. It is special for Eva to have as her first classroom teachers educators who are invested in her development as a caring, social person.

If you have not yet done so, donating to the Annual fund is incredibly important; please consider making a donation that is meaningful to you. We are so grateful to be a part of this community and for the opportunity to share our story and experience with you. 

No gift is too small and EVERY gift makes a difference! You can donate in these ways:

Click the DONATE button on our Giving Tuesday Page

 Paypal: paypal.me/montessorifamily 

 Check:    Montessori Family School, 7075 Cutting Blvd, El Cerrito, CA 94530

 Invoice: Email Maria at MOSS, CPA to make a pledge and be invoiced

 Corporate Matching: Inquire of your employer to see if your gift can be matched. Our EIN is 94-2698679