Giving
Opportunities for Giving
A gift to the Collaborative for Educational Services offers an opportunity to support teaching and learning in personally meaningful ways through these tax-exempt funds:
Alternative Learning
Mount Tom Academy Alternative High School
Located on the campus of Holyoke Community College, Mount Tom Academy offers students an alternative route to high school graduation. Designed for 11th and 12th grade students who have not been successful in a traditional high school setting, the program identifies the strengths, talents, and unique abilities of participating students.
Arts Education
Unlocking the Light: The Arts and Juvenile Justice
Unlocking the Light (UTL) is an innovative, statewide professional development program created through a partnership between CES and the Department of Youth Services (DYS). Through residencies by visual and performing artists, educators working in Massachusetts DYS residential facilities learn to use the arts to teach core academic subjects. Integrating the arts into the curriculum helps to promote positive development and improved achievement by engaging and motivating youth to invest in themselves and their education.
Early Childhood
Success by Six - EasthamptonThe Hampshire County Success by Six Provider Network and the local Coordinated Community and Family Engagement Council supports early childhood activities in Easthampton.
Special Education
CES Special Education Programs
The Collaborative's Special Education Programs are offered for children and youth ages 5-21 in both public and private settings and are available for students with autism, developmental disabilities, intellectual impairment, learning disabilities, and emotional and behavioral disorders.
Summer Program at Camp Hodgkins
Special Education extended year educational programs are designed to help boys and girls with developmental disabilities maintain skills that they work so diligently to acquire during the school year. Recreational, vocational, and educational activities directed by highly skilled staff enable students to explore experiential learning and expand independent living skills.
The Ben DeMarino Scholarship Fund (HEC Academy Alternative School)
Established by the family of Ben DeMarino, a 1993 graduate of the CES's Alternative Learning Program, this scholarship fund honors Ben's determination and courage and his love for the program and teachers who helped him along his path to success. Funds from this scholarship support other HEC Academy students as they strive to achieve their goals.
Housed at the Collaborative's CCATT Center and named for one of the center's founding members, the PWC Lending Library will be a home for assistive technology equipment, products, and materials and will enable users to explore and match assistive technology resources to their communication needs.
Student and Adult Learning and Career Development
The Reunion Center (Eastampton) and The Third Place (Turners Falls)
Year-round community-based adult learning programs that provide assessment, customized instruction, and career counseling to support individuals in achieving their educational goals.
To make a contribution to the Collaborative, please download a Donor Form (1-pg PDF) and mail a check made out to Collaborative for Educational Services (with the name of the fund you wish to support indicated in the check's memo line) to:
Development Office, Attn. Anne Farrington
Collaborative for Educational Services
97 Hawley Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Checks that do not indicate a specific fund will support the Collaborative's Innovation Fund.
Thank you for your support!