RAFT serves over 4,000 Bay Area teachers providing them with hands-on interactive learning materials and professional training workshops to use those materials in the school curriculum. Through our members, RAFT enriches the learning experience of nearly 600,000 children in the Bay Area each year. In addition, over 170,000 cubic feet of reusable material are saved from landfill each year.
Children are our most important community resource, they literally hold our future in their hands.
Our children need to become life-long learners. We must do all in our power to engage them in learning, making it interactive and memorable. RAFT helps achieve this goal by providing exciting and unique hands-on materials to classroom teachers and community groups. RAFT offers workshops and ideas to our members which support creative teaching especially in the areas of science, math, technology, and art.