Growing Student-Run Businesses in Beaverton high schools
BEF empowers student-run businesses that are part of many Career Technical Education (CTE) programs offered in high schools. With seed funding from BEF, businesses were able to purchase new equipment and supplies so students could learn through hands-on experiences, develop business acumen, and explore future career pathways.
PE & Play Initiative
Thanks to Nike, and other community partners, all elementary schools and several middle schools received new equipment to reenergize their students during PE class.
Beaverton Science Expos
BEF, Beaverton and Hillsboro School Districts partnered to put on a robust science expo program in 2025. BEF focused on empowering middle school students to see themselves as scientists who are capable of problem solving, discovery, and knowledge creation.
BASE Rocks Afterschool Music Club
During the 2024-2025 school year, BEF’s support launched an afterschool club that focused on creativity and music at this predominantly STEM option school.
Trades Exploration
BEF invests in career-connected learning activities that help 75 middle schoolers learn about construction, auto tech, and manufacturing CTE programs available in Beaverton high schools. As a result, these 7th and 8th graders are better prepared to move onto high school and many discover new career aspirations. High school students benefit as well as they provide peer-to-peer learning opportunities as they show off the skills they have learned and talk about career and college plans after graduation.
Aloha Coffee Caboose
BEF invested in career connected learning at Aloha High School where students in the special education programs were able to explore new job skills through working in the Coffee Caboose, a classroom coffee shop experience that helped students develop barista, marketing, and customer service skills.
Middle School Summer Band Camp
BEF makes Middle School Summer Band Camp affordable for everyone by providing financial support that served 240 students this summer with a two-week intensive musical experience.
After School Reading Enrichment Program
BEF invested in core academics at Montclair Elementary School, and as a result students made tremendous progress in their reading and writing abilities. Over the course of three months from January to March 2025, BEF supported readers after school to improve proficiency. This approach of finding ways to support students after school or during the summer is a key role for BEF to help students get a good start to education.
Mural Project
BEF invested in hand on, experiential learning at Ridgewood Elementary School, helping students to broaden their perspectives and build community through art over a year-long project to design a welcome mural in the school entrance.
Cram and Jam Homework Club
BEF invested in core academics at Sunset High School through support for a before and after school program designed to help students work on homework with a focus on math and science.