Program Evaluations
Orders Construction
- 2019-2020
- Business Coordinators
Orders Construction partnered with Education Elevators in hopes of making at least a small improvement in our community and state over the long-term. Today’s elementary students are tomorrow’s citizens, and so many of those students lack a positive role model. Our Elevators can be those role models, and hopefully, at least one of us is making an impact that will last a lifetime.
The immediate impacts of the partnership have been to raise Orders Construction’s corporate profile in the community, and improve morale of our team members who see our company doing good things for local children.
Nate Orders, Owner
The Education Elevators Foundation has provided games and activities, answered questions when asked and been extremely helpful! Building a relationship between Central and Orders has been very rewarding.
Janette Peggs
Advantage Technology
- 2019-2020
- Business Coordinators
We were first introduced to EE through a presentation at our local Rotary Club. Personally, what attracted me to the organization was having the opportunity to be the difference in a child’s life. Thankfully, I always had a solid role model in my mother. Without the fortune of having her in my life, I could have been that student that needed someone. I want each of the students seeking an Elevator to know that someone in the world cares about them, no matter what may be going on in their lives.
Many employees say that their favorite day of the week is the day they’re able to visit their student. It’s important to Advantage to give back to the community in any way we have the opportunity. With the struggles West Virginia faces, it’s important to make an impact in the future of the state we call home; I can’t think of a better investment of time than improving the life of a child, encouraging them that they are worthy and capable.
-Nina Shell
Edgewood Elementary
- 2019-2020
- School Coordinators
The Elevators who visit our building have a direct impact on the students they are working with. We know this and value this. We often miss the indirect benefits of Elevators. They support the teachers of the students they are working with by providing needed attention to their students weekly. They also bring a strong sense of community partnership into the building.
Leah Kersey, School Counselor
Piedmont Elementary
- 2019-2020
- School Coordinators
Our students light up when they find out they are getting matched with an Elevator and when they get to see them weekly. They truly do make a huge impact on our students and their lives.
Caitlin Lastoria, School Counselor
Kanawha City Elementary
- 2019-2020
- School Coordinators
These students have become more successful in all areas of school. They look forward to Elevator visits and light up when with them.
Rebecca Thomas, School Counselor
Central Elementary
- 2019-2020
- School Coordinators
The Elevator program has helped children form much needed healthy relationships with great adult role models. Students really look forward to their weekly mentor visits. It has helped us be more mindful of those kids that need that positive adult interaction in their lives.
Our Elevators have been amazing during the Coronavirus crisis! They prepared goody boxes for their students along with hand written notes. They brought them to the school in prepaid mailing boxes and all we had to do was put the addresses on them! They also sent pictures and messages to their students to make them feel special!
Beth Sturgill, Principal
Pro-Kids Afterschool Program
- 2019-2020
- School Coordinators
Education Elevators provides mentors for some of our struggling students. Students eagerly look forward to the day their Elevator comes. They are so excited to have someone just for them and I have already noticed changes in behaviors and attitudes as a result!
Jill Woodrum, Executive Director
School Coordinators 2022-2023
Teachers 2022-2023
Our Corporate Partners
Education Elevators is a West Virginia based, non-profit organization that partners businesses and organizations with local schools to match their employees with students in need of mentors, role models, friendship, academic support, and individual attention.By impacting individual students, we respond to fundamental needs in our communities.Education Elevators is designed to facilitate and support meaningful mentoring partnerships of businesses and organizations with local elementary schools.
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