Contact: Joan Rappaport, Director of Community Service, ext. 511
Brooklyn Friends School has a long-standing commitment to community service as an integral element of our preschool through grade 12 curriculum. As an outgrowth of that commitment, we incorporate four days of community service in the academic calendar for group projects. In addition, each Upper School student is expected to complete approximately 150 hours of community service. Many of our graduates continue to pursue community service in their adult lives.
Middle school teacher Ticia Vreeland (left) and Community Service Director Joan Rappaport (right) at the annual blood drive. In the background is science department chair and teacher Janet Villas.
BFS has worked with numerous public schools, service organizations and non-profits over the past five years. See a list here. For greater detail about the community service program at BFS, please visit the sidebar links to the left of this page.
DID YOU KNOW? In 2006, Brooklyn Friends School received the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education's Community Service Recognition Award (Honorable Mention) for "Service Learning Leadership: Pairing Our Classrooms with Our Communities"