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Education Foundation Angel Gifts
The Angel Gifts Program was instituted to create a way for businesses and concerned individuals to provide teachers and schools with needed equipment and materials through in-kind and/or monetary donations. It is the goal of this program to assist with relatively small, but urgently needed items (see new application guidelines). Only Requests from Administrators and Department heads valued at $500 or less will be considered for cash funding from the foundation subject to availability of funds.
First year teachers, starting a teaching career, will automatically receive a gift from the Education Foundation as part of the Angel Gifts program. (Gift Certificates are mailed to qualifying teachers as they are hired).
Amount of Award
- Only Requests from Administrators and Department heads valued at $500 or less will be considered for cash funding from the foundation subject to availability of funds. Additionally, we will consider soliciting in-kind donations.
- New Teacher Gifts will vary from year to year based on number of 1st year teachers.
Guidelines
- Immediate Need: Needs that demonstrate a necessity and not a desire will be considered.
- Requests for items that improve faculty, student efficiency, or safety will be considered.
- Requests may range from those that benefit an entire campus to individual classrooms, to an individual student
- Requests which utilize durable, reusable items will be given preference
- No funds will be awarded for field trips, salaries, teacher trips, food, stickers, personal scholarships for continuing education, speaker’s fees, digital cameras, camcorders, palm pilots, headphones, after school clubs, computer hardware, books, manipulatives, rugs, or program that mentions standardized testing.
- No funds will be awarded for multiple applications from an individual school to fund an entire program.
- Items that would be considered a non-urgent necessity should be requested through the Grants to Teachers and Schools program.
Distribution of Funds
- The Foundation intends to solicit both in-kind item donations, as well as targeted monetary donations to fund Angel Gifts through its auxiliary.
- Eligible applications will be first circulated among local business and individuals, as well as displayed at Foundation functions, to solicit in-kind donations for requested items.
- Notification of awards will be made as soon as possible, based on the availability of Foundation funds, dollar donations, and in-kind donations
- The Foundation’s Angel Gift committee will review applications for conformance to urgency of needs and program guidelines.
- Applications for funding requests from administrators/department heads may be submitted August through March 31st.
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