The Necessitous Foundation assist academic institutions equip all of their classrooms with computers and we design the latest software solutions for them to use to ensure that disadvantaged youth (including those with Special Needs and Disabilities), young women, socioeconomically low-income and minority students in underserviced academic institutions are prepared for the future.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. – Peter Flemming

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Chinese Proverb

From small beginnings come great things. – Proverb

After all there is but one race – humanity. – George Moore

How wrong it is for women to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself. – Anais Nin

Most Americans have never seen ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness and futility in which many other Americans live….They won’t become involved in economic…change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them. – Shirley Chisholm

What I argue against is the notion that there is only one way to learn how to read, only one way to learn how to compute, only one way to learn about biology. I think that such contentions are nonsense. – Howard Gardner, Checkley, © 1997, Page 10

Choices provide opportunities for students to make decisions. Making decisions leads to development of an internal-locus control and empowerment. Students who feel they have some control over what happens to them will be more engaged in the learning process. – Building Resilient Students, Page 77, © 2002, Corwin Press, Inc.

The Necessitous Foundation
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