Over the past year, the MGR Foundation has implemented Murals at three community organizations and schools. During the summer of 2005, our artists worked with elementary students at Hilltop Community Children's Center in Knoxville. Next, we had the pleasure of partnering with Philip Murray School, a Pittsburgh Public School serving forth and fifth grade children of St. Clair Village and Mt. Oliver. Most recently, the MGR Foundation brought Murals to the middle school students of the Hill House Association in Pittsburgh's Hill District.

The MGR Foundation has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to enhance our Murals program. We are working with a dynamic advisory board of CMU professors and administrators. In addition, CMU provides artistic mentors for Murals, offering an opportunity for our students to develop meaningful relationships with college students in the arts.

Murals has clearly had a positive impact on the students we have worked with. 92.4% of the students indicated that a majority of the time they are now able to express their anger without using violence. At Philip Murray, one child wrote, "I liked being able to express myself in a nice way, learning and having fun at the same time." A child at the Hill House commented, "I learned how to get out of bad situations in a good way." When we asked an after school program coordinator if the program was effective enough to recommend to other schools and agencies, we were given a simple reply, "Unconditionally!"