(From left-right) Gregory Owens, Cleve Warren, president, Essential Capital Finance; Janet Owens, vice president of marketing & communications, United Way of Northeast Florida; and Barbara Darby, president, Florida State College at Jacksonville, met with Hajj Womack, dean of academics for the B.E.S.T. Academy. The group visited B.E.S.T. to learn about the academy’s curriculum, structure, administration, students, funding model and community support for their new single-gender charter school concept in Jacksonville, Fla.