Last month, community leaders in Miami Beach created a human chain between the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce and Miami Beach Senior High School, symbolizing the ties between business and education as a part of the chamber's Links Project.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, leaders from the chamber and local business community, as well as area students and teachers, were among those standing side by side on Dec. 16, 2014, holding onto a 2,000-foot-long chain of paper links.
Pictured in this Dec. 16, 2014 photo (L to R, front row): Michael Goldberg (chair, Miami Beach Chamber); Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine; Aaron Tandy, Gunster shareholder and vice chair of the Miami Beach Chamber; and Joshua Levy, attorney at Pardo Gainsburg and co-chair of the chamber's Emerging Leadership Council. Photo courtesy of Henry Perez Photography
Each of the paper links represented a donation toward annual teacher grants to benefit eight public schools in the area.
According to Gunster shareholder Aaron Tandy, who serves as vice chair of the Miami Beach Chamber, The Links Project and other initiatives by the chamber's education foundation distributed 19 separate grants, totaling over $20,000, to teachers at Miami Beach Senior High School and other area schools.
