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Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation to adopt Partners in Education for sustainability
Summary
The Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation presented programs it funds and announced it will adopt and fund the Partners in Education initiative to ensure sustainability of volunteer, sponsorship and basic‑needs efforts.
Don Wise and Whitney Boyd presented an overview of the Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation and the Partners in Education program’s transfer into the foundation. “Our mission is to advance excellence and equity in the Lynchburg City Schools through advocacy and educational funding,” Don Wise said, describing the foundation’s role filling gaps not covered by the school division’s budget.
Wise and Boyd told the board that Partners in Education — a three-decade collaboration between Lynchburg City Schools and local business partners that coordinates volunteers, sponsorships and programs such as basic‑needs support — will be adopted by the Education Foundation to create a sustainable administrative home. Boyd described volunteer coordination, reading initiatives, sponsorships and a CarePortal connection that links school requests to churches and community responders for basic needs. She also outlined a new hygiene‑poverty fund under the Partners umbrella to provide hygiene items alongside weekend food bags.
The foundation’s other programs described to the board included CLASSM Innovation grants (classroom grants up to $5,000), the Tools for Schools warehouse that supplies teachers at no cost, back‑to‑school supply deliveries to counselors for identified students, and scholarships. Board members and staff praised the move to put Partners in Education under the foundation for sustainability and noted continued reliance on community partners for supplies and volunteer support. No formal vote was taken at the presentation; the foundation’s representatives sought to inform the board and invite collaboration.
The presentation included descriptions of how school nurses and counselors will coordinate requests for hygiene kits and how donated supplies will be distributed via existing weekend food bag delivery schedules. The board discussed capacity, continuity and the need for infrastructure so programs do not rely on a single champion.
