$6,245 raised by 22 donors
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$15,000 Goal
Denver Center for International Studies (DCIS) Foundation takes global education beyond the classroom by supporting student travel and cultural opportunities. These experiences foster academic success, expand global understanding, promote community involvement, and help students become active citizens and informed leaders. Helping create global citizens since 1997.Â
"What I really discovered is that even though we all inhabit the same planet, we live in monumentally different worlds, and the way that we approach the worlds and that we build bridges between them is really what defines who we are and the future of our world." Eliza Cummings, Class of 2013
"I believe that while in Brazil, I had an inconceivable stroke of sonder. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept, sonder can best be described as "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own-populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness-an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.", the term was coined by John Koenig. I had a taste of this while looking out across the massive stretches of the Rocinha favela (Portuguese for the slums) from a bridge over the highway and when you see it you're just speechless- and the sheer number of people, activities, and daily occurrences taking place is just incomprehensible for the mind. These experiences and the exposure they entail align with this idea of global competency and the other domains of global leadership of Denver Center for International Studies." --Joseph Marrujo-Montoya, DCIS Montbello, Class of 2018
DENVER CENTER for INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (DCIS) FOUNDATION's mission is to raise money for student travel scholarships and associated programs that augment the DCIS curriculum. This includes exchanges (local, national, and international), educational excursions (zoos, museums, and nature centers), cultural immersion, and multi-lingual language education. Helping create global citizens since 1997.
All about us: https://www.dcisfoundation.org/
In 1985, Denver Public Schools opened the Center for International Studies, a global studies program housed at West High School. This special certificate program offered courses with a strong emphasis on world cultures, a variety of languages, and encouraged travel. In 2006, Denver Center for International Studies opened as a DPS magnate school with grades 6-12 housing just 265 students. In a few short years, the school has grown to over 700 students. In 2011, DCIS at Ford Elementary and later DCIS at Fairmont were opened.
Over the years students have traveled to over 45 countries including Mexico, Poland, France, Cambodia, China, Italy, the Czech Republic, Israel, Nambia, Sierra Leone, Argentina, and India. The language program includes Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Lakota.
Aside from gaining a global outlook on the world, students perform over 5,000 hours of community service locally each year. DCIS Baker has been recognized among the best high schools in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. The DCIS network is part of the Asia Society's International Studies School Network (ISSN) which includes 29 schools across the United States. The DCIS schools in DPS are the only ISSN schools in Colorado.
DCIS Foundation was started in 1997 to help DCIS schools create global citizens.
Organization name
Denver Center for International Studies Foundation
other names
DCIS Foundation, Center for International Studies Foundation
1997
Tax id (EIN)
84-1229412
Category
Education, Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
PO BOX 9044Mailing
PO BOX 9044Denver County, CO, US