Dabo’s All in Team Foundation^® has donated $30,000 to the Rise School.

The purpose of the Rise School is to provide exemplary services based on recommended practices to young children with diverse abilities and their families. The Rise School is one of the Foundation’s beneficiary’s under Life Programs.

The RISE School, a part of the UA College of Human Environmental Sciences, serves children with disabilities and their typically developing peers, from ages 8 weeks to 5 years. The children are divided by age among six classes, each with 16 students, one teacher and three assistants. The school’s mission is the same as the University’s — teaching, service and research.

Coach Gene Stallings, whose late son John Mark had Downs syndrome, has been instrumental in the start of the school in Tuscaloosa and growth to other college campuses.

Coach Stallings and the late John Mark