RE LOG - Spring 2017

24 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2017 Ransom Everglades also provided the city with a formal summary of the school’s extensive public and community service. That document serves as a snapshot of current activities at the school, as well as the starting point for expanded service opportunities. By this summer, Ransom Everglades hopes to have successfully completed the approval process so it can launch the eagerly awaited rejuvenation of its Upper School campus as early as next winter, and continue to build on the school’s long tradition of public and community service. What follows is taken from the public benefits statement provided in its application: R ansom Everglades students read books to preschoolers and tutor elementary school children. They collect canned goods for nearby food banks, diapers for young mothers, and books for local families. They participate in beach clean-ups, mangrove re-planting and home building. They play music in hospitals and help underserved students navigate the college application process. The school itself lends its facilities to worthwhile causes and non-profit entities. As Ransom Everglades seeks to enhance its Upper School campus by uniting it with the recently acquired La Brisa property to its north, the school also plans to nurture and strengthen its service-oriented bond with the local community. Ransom Everglades has been pursuing the necessary approvals from the City of Miami to incorporate the La Brisa property into the overall Master Plan for the development of the Upper School campus. As part of that process, the school has crafted a 30-year vision of a new Ransom Campus that includes the creation of additional green, open space, preservation of the existing tree canopies, the development of innovative LEED certified state-of-the-art classrooms, an improved circulation plan, and an allegiance and enthusiasm to a sustainable campus. As RE grows it will never lose sight of its mission Expanding our RE ach