Company Update: Coronavirus / COVID-19

We are now doing both video and in-person sessions, taking all of the necessary precautions to keep everyone safe.
Through the use of video chat and Google Drive software, we are able to help our students catch up and look ahead during this break from school.

Don’t let this period of homeschooling overwhelm you! Let us help!

Let Us Know If You Have Questions!

Bringing Christmas Joy
to Foster Children

Christmas Gifts for Foster Children
in Greater Grand Rapids

The founder of Outside the Box: Creative Tutoring, holds a special place in her heart for helping local foster children. In 2022, Anne and her late husband adopted their daughter, eleven years old at the time. Outside the Box will be teaming up with Arbor Circle to provide Christmas presents for foster children in the Greater Grand Rapids area. 
Please follow the Facebook page, Outside the Box: Merry Foster Christmas for updates. An Amazon wishlist will be posted yearly.

Presents need to be delivered by December 16th to Arbor Circle, so please be sure they arrive to Outside the Box by December 15th!

2026 Amazon Wishlist
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Merry Foster Christmas
Merry Foster Christmas

Inspiring phrases

"My greatest memory wasn't a fancy clothes or video games. It was a book and I still have this beautiful book today. ... each year I would beg for more books."
(Former foster child)
"Christmas can put things into perspective... it was a big reality check."
(Foster parent on a transformative Christmas with a foster child)
“The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
W.C. Jones
“Every child is one caring adult away from being a success story.”
Josh Shippe
“It Takes a village to raise a child.”
African proverb
“The heart that gives, gathers.”
Marianne Moore
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Anne Frank
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

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