Friends of Bache-Martin provides financial resources and facilitates community engagement to enhance the educational opportunities offered by the school. Friends of Bache-Martin provides financial resources and facilitates community engagement to enhance the educational opportunities offered by the school not funded by the Philadelphia school district, most notably the creation, sustainment and staffing of a school library, a luxury only a few schools in Philadelphia have. Bache-Martin is a public neighborhood K-8 elementary school that offers academic programming in a caring, energetic, and inclusive environment. Through innovative teaching, committed leadership, and effective community partnerships, Bache-Martin students will grow creative, critical, and civic-minded thinkers who are confident and well-prepared to achieve as they continue on their educational pathway from high school to college, to career, and beyond.