There is perhaps no calling higher than mentoring students who need and desire adult interaction to help enhance their lives.  We believe that every child deserves to have adults in their lives who are “irrationally crazy about them,” to borrow a descriptive phrase from the great American Psychologist, Urie Bronfenbrenner. These are adults who do not seek to replace parents but to enhance and expand upon the opportunities students require outside school or home, to navigate the important aspects of growing up.  Mentors become wise advisors.

Too often organizations appended to schools become primarily fundraising organizations.  While New Frontier surely needs funding, we also need people who are willing to invest themselves, personally and directly, in the lives of our students.  We seek adult mentors to partner with teachers, counselors, social workers who are doing the hard work in the classroom every day, but who often ask for outside support to help Frontier students fulfill their high aspirations for academic and career success.  These may come in the form of mentoring, tutoring, assistance on field trips, assisting with ESL courses and introductions to potential employers.

The New Frontier Educational Foundation was formed in 2016 as a non-membership, not-for-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Missouri. The IRS has granted it the status of 501c3, tax-exempt, public charity.