Causes: Arts & Culture, Dance
Mission: Mindleaps uses dance to develop the cognitive skills and social-emotional learning of at-risk youth to ensure they can succeed in school, enter the workplace and leap forward in life.
Programs: Mindleaps currently has programs in six countries, including Rwanda, Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Mauritania, and North Macedonia. These programs attract vulnerable youth through dance to help develop cognitive skills and improve emotional regulation. Over 10,000 youth have completed the MindLeaps’ Dance & Data program and over 600 students have received school scholarships. Based on the measurement & evaluation system used to measure the students' learning progress, we found that, on average, children improved their cognitive and non-cognitive skills by 35% over 7-10 weeks in the program: www. Mindleaps. Org/research. While participating in the program, children also receive a daily meal, health/hygiene products, HIV/AIDS testing, IT training, and clothing. Students advance from the dance program into skills training and can also receive academic acceleration courses to help them catch up to the appropriate school level and be ready to enter formal education. Courses include language lessons, math, science, and social studies courses.
In FY17, MindLeaps grew its partnership model, where MindLeaps partners with organizations serving vulnerable youth in order to provide our dance program. In January 2017, we worked with Hias to improve the life skills of 75 refugee children from 7 different countries. A team of four MindLeaps staff provided 8 hours of training each day: 3 two-hour dance classes for students, followed by a two-hour training for 10 Hias staff. The program served refugee children from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Mindleaps also partnered with local Mauritanian NGO SOS Pairs Educateurs, which serves youth and vulnerable people in El Mina, the poorest of the nine sectors of Nouakchott. The joint program provided three months of dance classes for 117 youth at the SOS Pairs Educateurs centre and at Nouakchott's juvenile detention centre. MindLeaps staff also provided training in the MindLeaps' methodology for 10 local Mauritanian teachers to continue the program. In total our partnerships served 272 youth. Amounts presented as grants represent donations restricted to these partnership programs, and revenue is where the program was paid for by the partner as a fee-for-service.
MindLeaps has increased its number of local staff from 12 in 2016 to 105 in 2021.Many former students go on to join the MindLeaps staff where they have the opportunity to manage and oversee programs at a higher level, and over 80 Youth Trainers from around the world are currently teaching the dance curriculum. This ensures that people from various age groups benefit from MindLeaps, creating long lasting and sustainable development in local communities.
Mission: Mindleaps uses dance to develop the cognitive skills and social-emotional learning of at-risk youth to ensure they can succeed in school, enter the workplace and leap forward in life.
Programs: Mindleaps currently has programs in six countries, including Rwanda, Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Mauritania, and North Macedonia. These programs attract vulnerable youth through dance to help develop cognitive skills and improve emotional regulation. Over 10,000 youth have completed the MindLeaps’ Dance & Data program and over 600 students have received school scholarships. Based on the measurement & evaluation system used to measure the students' learning progress, we found that, on average, children improved their cognitive and non-cognitive skills by 35% over 7-10 weeks in the program: www. Mindleaps. Org/research. While participating in the program, children also receive a daily meal, health/hygiene products, HIV/AIDS testing, IT training, and clothing. Students advance from the dance program into skills training and can also receive academic acceleration courses to help them catch up to the appropriate school level and be ready to enter formal education. Courses include language lessons, math, science, and social studies courses.
In FY17, MindLeaps grew its partnership model, where MindLeaps partners with organizations serving vulnerable youth in order to provide our dance program. In January 2017, we worked with Hias to improve the life skills of 75 refugee children from 7 different countries. A team of four MindLeaps staff provided 8 hours of training each day: 3 two-hour dance classes for students, followed by a two-hour training for 10 Hias staff. The program served refugee children from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Mindleaps also partnered with local Mauritanian NGO SOS Pairs Educateurs, which serves youth and vulnerable people in El Mina, the poorest of the nine sectors of Nouakchott. The joint program provided three months of dance classes for 117 youth at the SOS Pairs Educateurs centre and at Nouakchott's juvenile detention centre. MindLeaps staff also provided training in the MindLeaps' methodology for 10 local Mauritanian teachers to continue the program. In total our partnerships served 272 youth. Amounts presented as grants represent donations restricted to these partnership programs, and revenue is where the program was paid for by the partner as a fee-for-service.
MindLeaps has increased its number of local staff from 12 in 2016 to 105 in 2021.Many former students go on to join the MindLeaps staff where they have the opportunity to manage and oversee programs at a higher level, and over 80 Youth Trainers from around the world are currently teaching the dance curriculum. This ensures that people from various age groups benefit from MindLeaps, creating long lasting and sustainable development in local communities.
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