Inspiring Every Journey
Eat & Wrap
In Memoriam: Marilyn McIntyre
Newsletter Fall 2024
Orange County Business Journal 2024 Best Places to Work
The Wooden Floor was awarded 2024 Best Places to Work Award for the second year in a row.
Step Forward Endowment Fund Campaign
Orange County Business Journal Best Places to Work 2023
2021 Stand for the Arts Award
Student and Alumni Stories
WE ARE CREATING
GENERATIONAL
CHANGE THROUGH
THE POWER OF DANCE
We give young people the tools and guidance to follow a path to higher education by serving students, grades 3-12, after-school for up to 10 years with a comprehensive strategy that is grounded in dance and long-term mentoring relationships.
In 2022, only 17.8 percent of Latino adults in Santa Ana had a college degree.*
Here is how The Wooden Floor wants to
change the future of Orange County.
Theory of Change
Our holistic model serves 475 under-served students year-round with dance, academic, college and career readiness, and family support programs—free of charge.
See the Children in Motion
Throughout the year, students have the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers and production staff during performance opportunities such as the Annual Concert and Co-Creation Lab.
Our History: Four Decades of Impact
In 2018, The Wooden Floor’s second location, Depot at Santiago, opened to serve an additional 100 students.
Since 2005, 100% of our seniors have graduated from high school on time and immediately enrolled in higher education.
In 2019, only 14% of Latino adults in Santa Ana had a college degree*.
Here is how The Wooden Floor wants to change the future of Orange County.
Theory of Change
Our holistic model serves 475 under-served students year-round with dance, academic, college and career readiness, and family support programs—free of charge.
See the Children in Motion
Throughout the year, students have the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers and production staff during performance opportunities such as the Annual Concert and Co-Creation Lab.
Three Decades of Impact
In 2019, The Wooden Floor’s second location, Depot at Santiago, opened to serve an additional 100 students.
Since 2005, 100% of our seniors have graduated from high school on time and immediately enrolled in higher education.
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The Wooden Floor Legacy Society
We recognize and continue to honor those who have made planned gifts.