Rushman-Micah Angel Foundation Mission Statement:
The Rushman-Micah Angel Foundation will give gifts of technology and knowledge that will empower children with special needs and their families to gain the confidence needed to lead a lifestyle of independence and creativity. |
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Rushman-Micah Angel Foundation Vision Statement:
The Rushman-Micah Angel Foundation is striving to become an internationally recognized collaborative organization, impacting and enhancing the lives of special needs children and their families throughout Florida and the world |
THE RUSHMAN MICAH ANGEL FOUNDATION (RMAF) is a 501(3c) charity located in Naples, Florida. It was organized over a Saturday brunch discussion with Micah, age 20, who is a high school special needs student who residing in Naples, Florida.
Micah disclosed to Eddie Rush and his mother Barbara Brown that his reading materials were limited in availability after school. He indicated that variety and diversity of computer based reading and vocational material was limited in availability.
RMAF was created in the summer of 2011. Eddie Rush, a National Basketball Association referee decided to fund the charity with the help of his professional sports network and the southwest Florida community to help students and families feeling isolated from their children’s educational process. RMAF empathizes with these special families, in order for any child to succeed a child needs to feel inclusive in an environment that is empathetic and demand an equal playing field to learning tools accessibility.
RMAF was created to help close the gap of accessibility to technology and multimedia arts and make learning an engaging experience. This project is in direct response to the special needs and at-risk youth who are failing or falling through the cracks of a still great divide of those who have access to technology and arts or those who do not.
RMAF interviewed several parents with special needs children who felt their children were not meeting their academic and life skills potential. Due to lack of enough (computers, Smart pens, laptops, EBook readers, I-Pads, Leap Frog Systems, Talking Books, Intel Readers and other adaptive educational material) many students and their parents found themselves losing faith and hope, that their special needs student would be graduating without acquiring the basic learning skills to function on a daily basis.
RMAF strives to help empower the disabled students and at-risk children totaling over 15,000, which include families with limited and no-income in Collier and Lee counties. The foundation will disseminate information and provide a forum on strategies to provide IT equipment for the disabled youth population.
RMAF was designed primarily to provide technology tools to disabled and at-risk students ages 4-24 with developmental and physical disabilities. RMAF goals include developing our special population’s capacity to improve their learning curve and fostering socialization through multimedia arts.
RMAF is taking a lead role in bringing awareness to bridge the gap of technology and education for the special needs community and their families.
RMAF potential participants come from diverse cultures, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Therefore to effectively address their technological needs, tools are provided specifically designed for the participant’s specified needs to be used exclusively in the home and after school. In order for this to be successful, parents are required to play an active role in the education process.
RMAF understands collaborative and community efforts must be made to bring awareness in regard to technology options and multicultural access. Addressing the need and leveling the playing field for our disabled and at-risk youth and their families; tt is a joint and collaborative effort needed to assure education is engaging and challenging experience, to prepare all our children for the Twenty First Century learning.
We are confident that you will find the information provided throughout the Rushman-Micah Angel Foundation website to be helpful. Browse at your leisure and feel free to contact us for any additional information. RMAF is focusing in meeting the community needs for our special population and their families
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