Vision

Through quality education, we give hope to one child, one classroom, and one corner of the
world at a time.

Mission Statement

Hungry Minds bridges global divides to provide high performance educational initiatives for disadvantaged children, empowering and inspiring them to succeed in life.

Core Values

Compassion

• Stretch to understand and feel the suffering of others
• Dare to be in situations that expand one’s experience
• Notice resistance to empathizing with perspectives of others
• Develop capacity of listening and dialogue
• Wrestle with responses to whatever seems overwhelming
• Practice gentleness with oneself and others

Excellence

• Execute to high standards
• Assume the great promise of every life
• Define high expectations and hold to standards
• Continuously evaluate results against goals
• Dare to face the brutal facts
• Tune into the varied faces of excellence

Nurturing

• Foster growth through labor and care
• Engage all learners’ best energies
• Evaluate current development
• Identify and remove blocks to growth
• Fertilize with readily absorbable materials
• Celebrate each unique life

Trustworthiness

• Reliably tend reputation for integrity
• Work to match word and deed
• Offer trust to others
• Deliver what is promised
• Say what needs to be said
• Foster trust by consistent, positive behavior

Bayanihan (Filipino word meaning shared community effort)

• Act as a community to accomplish hard tasks
• See own efforts as part of a larger community effort
• Partner to accomplish more
• Clearly identify common goal
• Tend relationships
• Contribute fair share