Our Mission

Fueling generational change through advocacy, education, and relatinships that uplift families!

As part of the East End, AKZ walks alongside our community, advocating, supporting, and building collective strength to break generational cycles and shape a future where every person feels empowered, connected, and confident in their ability to thrive. The foundational components of AKZ are listed below:

Providing comprehensive support from birth to college by creating programs and services that provide an uninterrupted stream of support.
Connecting the surrounding community of residents, organizations, and businesses to provide strong environments to support the success of every child and family we serve.
Measuring outcomes to ensure that progress is real and tangible. Results are the driving force for individual support and program development.
Closing the gap between support structures to be sure that every child and their family receive maximum opportunities to build on their capacity to learn and succeed.

Our Mission

Our Story

Audubon Kids Zone was born from a series of breakfast meetings by Engage Henderson, a group of people involved in seeing positive movements in the city, especially in the East End. Engage Henderson consisted of City Government officials, interested individuals, neighborhood residents, South Heights School personnel, and corporate businesses.

In February 2015, a partnership between Community One, the City of Henderson, South Heights Elementary School, and the Raymond B. Preston Family Foundation was formally announced. This culminated in the Audubon Kids Zone project. AKZ was founded to provide support to a defined area of children in the East End, with the end result being graduation from college and the elimination of generational poverty. Two years of intensive assessment of neighborhood strengths and needs began by conducting focus groups and interviewing individual households and businesses. The data gathered from these assessments proved the need for a Kids Zone in the East End area.

Audubon Kids Zone officially opened for tutoring services in March 2017. A full summer program followed the school year with Summer Sizzler events in June and July. Tutoring and enrichment classes continued in the fall to support what is now the Audubon Kids Zone.

Our Story

History