Quinta Brunson Launches Fund to Expand Philadelphia Students’ Access to Educational Field trips
PHILADELPHIA, PA - december 3, 2023 – Abbott Elementary star and Philadelphia native Quinta Brunson today announced the launch of the Quinta Brunson Field Trip Fund, a new initiative designed to provide free, enriching out-of-classroom experiences for students within the School District of Philadelphia. The fund aims to support access for over 117,000 children.
Brunson, who unveiled the fund on Giving Tuesday, emphasized the profound impact field trips had on her own upbringing. “Field trips were some of the most memorable parts of my own education growing up in Philadelphia,” Brunson saeid in a statement. “They opened my world, sparked my creativity, and helped me imagine a future beyond what I saw every day.”
The initiative will cover the costs associated with visits to Philadelphia’s numerous museums and landmarks. Brunson jumpstarted the fund with a personal donation of $20,000,as shared in a video posted to her Instagram account.
“Going somewhere new shows you that the world is bigger and more exciting than you believe, and it can shape what you come to see as achievable,” Brunson continued. “I’m proud to support Philadelphia students with experiences that remind them their dreams are valid and their futures are bright.”
The launch of the fund follows Brunson being awarded a key to the city earlier this year at her former elementary school, Andrew Hamilton School, in West Philadelphia - the very institution, and a retired teacher there, that served as the inspiration for her Emmy Award-winning series, abbott Elementary.
Individuals interested in contributing to The Quinta Brunson field Trip Fund can donate through DonorPerfect: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/fundsdp/fieldtripfund.
