Frost Equity Initiative: 2022 Accomplishments

 

Frost Equity Initiative, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit affiliate for Frost STEAM Labs, is launching our annual Giving Tuesday campaign to expand our reach. All of Frost STEAM Labs’ contracts for STEAM enrichment clubs in schools and non-profits have been funded by grants and individuals like yourself. Your donation will help provide elementary and high school students with financial need scholarships for Coding Clubs and Money Clubs. Our work is helping to expose underrepresented groups to the S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) fields and to promote financial literacy.  

Frost Equity Initiative supporters have helped sponsor the following events in 2022: 

  • Frost Equity Initiative launch: We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation launched to help Frost STEAM Labs fund coding clubs for underprivileged students.  

  • MLK Academy Kids Coding Club launch: In March, we helped Frost STEAM Labs launch an on-site coding club at Martin Luther King Jr. Academy for Social Justice in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood--one of the toughest neighborhoods in the country. The program supported 30 students in the 3rd through 5th grades. 

  • Teen Money Club: Finance 101: A free, virtual event where youth learned about budgeting, interest rates, and credit scores from a professional money coach hired through Frost STEAM Labs.  

  • Diverse Game Characters project: Frost STEAM Labs created diverse game characters to use in our coding exercises. 

  • Amazon Smile campaign launch where our supporters raise money for us as they shop with Amazon at https://smile.amazon.com. 

 

Additionally, we hosted two all-girls hackathons: 

  • Sister Share: An event with A New Day Foundation founded by actress Dawnn Lewis and sponsored by Rashida Jones, President of MSNBC.

  • Coding Clubs for Sigma Gamma Rho Rhoers: Rhoers is an affiliate group of Signma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. that supports girls aged 12 - 18. Our partnerships included the: Mu Kappa Signa and Theta Epsilon Sigma chapters. 

We are excited about 2023 and are planning the following events: 

  • An MLK week science club event with materials

  • Two free financial seminars 

  • Two free all-girls STEAM events

  • Launching more STEAM enrichment programs in schools and nonprofits

If you are inclined to sponsor our programming, please donate here.

Best,

Ronnie Frost 
President/Founder Frost Equity Initiative, Frost STEAM Labs

 
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