Forbes: How Goal Zero & Heart Of America Are Making Electricity Literally Accessible To The Navajo Nation

Heart of America’s vital work supporting students in Native American communities, in particular Navajo Nation, has always been a collaborative effort in partnership with community, corporate and civic leaders. Thank you to Forbes and Steven Aquino for sharing this important story and encouraging others to join the movement. Empowering students’ and their family’s learning by providing solar power and education materials is an initiative that is certain to continue until every student has the resources they need to succeed. We are better together and are strengthen by learnings and our determined partners - SOLV EnergyGOAL ZERO and our many school district partners and community leaders!

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NEWLY FORMED DIVERSE BOOKS FOR ALL COALITION LAUNCHES

A first-of-its-kind collaborative effort with literacy non-profits


Heart of America has joined 26 other nonprofits to tackle a challenge that has impeded children’s literacy for decades: the lack of high-quality, affordable children’s books by and about diverse races and cultures. Read more here.

Why color matters

Positive learning environments set students up for success. Read the Op-ed authored by Malesia Dunn, the executive director of the PPG Foundation and corporate global social responsibility and Jill Heath, President and CEO of Heart of America.

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Our Work on Native American Lands

On reservations across the US, many students live in homes with no power – making learning at home nearly impossible with no ability to charge school-issued laptops or do homework once the sun goes down. Since 2020, Heart of America has been working with HOA’s Native American Liaison, Mylo Fowler, to provide 10,000+ home learning kits (with solar lanterns, books, art materials, STEM games, and more) to Indigenous communities across the southwest and install solar panels on more than 100 homes. Help us do more.

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WHY WE DO THIS WORK


Too many students in America go to school in buildings that are dark, drab, and in serious disrepair. Poorly maintained environments like these communicate to students that they are not a priority and this can result in lower self-esteem, lower achievement, and lower overall participation in school and community affairs.


Heart of America transforms learning spaces, bridges the resource gap, and strengthens communities to give every student room to learn, discover and thrive. Since 1997, Heart of America has transformed almost 1,000 educational spaces nationwide, provided $4.4 million in library and take-home books, and vital technology valued at more than $9.5 million.



The classroom, home, and community are all essential elements of quality education, and the pandemic has brought a new focus on educational inequities across the United States crystalizing the importance of the work.

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