Jacksonville Jaguars Community Report 2016-2017 | Page 8
EDUCATION & GOALS
We Say “Go Jaguars!”
City Year Scholarships
The Jaguars Foundation,
in partnership with Holland & Knight, are proud
to sponsor the JaxKids
Book Club. Through this
partnership, 10,000 VPK
students in Jacksonville
will receive a backpack
with several books,
including the We Say,
Go Jaguars! book. The
JaxKids Book Club is a
free early literacy summer
reading program managed
by the Jacksonville Children’s Commission. Since
its inception in 2004,
the JaxKids Book Club
has provided 1,093,596
free books to more than
95,000 4–year-olds
throughout the city.
The Foundation continues
to encourage scholastic
achievement by funding
scholarships through
the University of North
Florida , Florida State
College of Jacksonville
and the Jacksonville Public Education Fund. The
Jaguars Foundation has a
$500,000 endowment at
the University of North
Florida for eligible scholarship recipients as well
as donated over $40,000
to the Jacksonville Public
Education Fund.