Synergy School
The Oram Group is advising the 40th anniversary campaign to double the endowment fund for this K-8 teacher-run school. Synergy School offers a superb progressive education, affordability, and deep diversity. Synergy’s mission is to provide a quality education to children by enabling them to flourish academically, to blossom as individuals, and to become self-confident, creative learners. Active, hands-on learning fosters each child's curiosity, critical thinking skills, and love of discovery. Strong conceptual foundations are built through challenging explorations in all academic subjects. A rich and varied curriculum is taught with the expectation that each child will strive for personal and academic excellence. It is an environment based on encouragement, cooperation, mutual respect and responsibility.
www.synergyschool.org
Prostate Cancer Foundation
The Prostate Cancer Foundation funds high-impact research to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. Founded in 1993, PCF has raised more than $288 million. The Oram Group is helping PCF greatly expand its fund raising over the next several years.
The Foundation was founded by Michael Milken whose vision, energy and fund raising skills have moved prostate cancer into the forefront of biomedical research.
www.prostatecancerfoundation.org
Luna Productions
“My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Marian Diamond” (in production)
My Love Affair with the Brain is a feature-length documentary about our human brain featuring the legendary professor and researcher Dr. Marian Cleeves Diamond, the pioneering 84-year-old neuroscientist, continuing UC Berkeley professor, grandmother and now, YouTube sensation. Dr. Diamond led the way to our understanding of “use it or lose it” brain health. Her findings changed how we can understand and care for our brains throughout our lifetimes. She shattered glass ceilings for women in science, and she has immeasurably enriched the lives of legions of professionals, parents, and children everywhere.
www.lunaproductions.com
Chautauqua Institution
Founded in 1874 and in continuous operation since Chautauqua is a center for the arts, education, religion and recreation. It is perhaps best known for its emphasis on civic discourse and its lecturers come from every field of endeavor and inquiry. The Oram Group is advising the Institution on the establishment of Digital Chautauqua a multi-million dollar project to carry content in all forms to the Internet thereby going far beyond its lakeside home to creation of a global presence.
www.ciweb.org
