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Lessons in Legacy
Jan Alexander
05/03/2004
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The children at Marin Country Day School, a private K-8 school on 35 lush
acres in Corte Madera, CA, spend class time talking about the ways in which they
might save the world. “We teach them about the root causes of social
problems, and encourage them to come up with creative ways to address those
problems,” says Kyle Redford, who, as the school’s service learning coordinator,
is the person responsible for overseeing community service programs wherein the
second-graders visit homeless shelters. The sixth graders wrote a business plan
and a fund-raising letter for Smile Train, an organization that pays for plastic
surgery for underprivileged children with facial deformities.
“It is a very important value to our family that our kids be exposed to the
idea that we don’t all look, think and talk alike.”
Carrie Schwab Pomerantz |
“It is a
very important value to our family that our kids be exposed to the idea that we
don’t all look, think and talk alike,” says Carrie Schwab Pomerantz, whose two
younger children attend Marin Country Day. She has witnessed their excitement
when they come home and search the pantry for cans to give to disadvantaged
children, and she has been thrilled to find private schools that function as
partners in perpetuating an important part of her family mission. Pomerantz’s
father, Charles Schwab of the brokerage firm, believes in identifying a personal
passion and then devoting philanthropic time and money to that cause. The oldest
of Pomerantz’s three children, Ross, 12, goes to Marin Academy, an equally philanthropically-inclined prep school in San Raphael, and has already decided
that next year he will do volunteer work for the Special Olympics to fulfill a
community service requirement.
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