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Sylvania Schools Foundation reports more than $111,000 raised, launches "100 for 100" retired-staff campaign
Summary
At the Aug. 11 Board of Education meeting, a foundation representative gave a year-end financial update, described partnerships and events, and introduced a ‘100 for 100’ campaign that asks retired staff to donate $100 each to support grants, scholarships and new-teacher start-up cards.
Jody, a leader with the Sylvania Schools Foundation, told the Sylvania Board of Education on Aug. 11 that the foundation raised and distributed funds to support staff and students and is launching a new fundraising drive aimed at retired staff.
The foundation awarded “over $13,000 in grants” to faculty, provided more than $10,000 for professional development, and distributed roughly $26,000 in student scholarships, Jody said. She also reported more than $43,000 in donations during the past year and said event proceeds produced a large surplus; she described an approximately $1,213,000 figure for the combined hall-of-fame events and said total distributions exceeded $111,000 for the year.
The nut graf: The foundation’s work directly affects classroom resources, teacher development and student scholarships; its new “100 for 100” campaign is intended to reconnect retired staff with current schools and provide predictable, small-dollar funding for teacher grants, scholarships and start-up support for alumni who return to teach in Sylvania.
In her presentation, Jody briefly summarized ongoing and new partnerships. She said the foundation is working with UT as a local feeder relationship, and that UT will be a major donor and is expected to deepen school visits and collaboration. She credited local businesses and groups—naming Owens and Sidecar in her remarks—for recent scholarship donations and event support. The foundation has also hired an investment adviser and formed an investment committee to move funds out of low-interest bank accounts, Jody said.
Jody outlined events and programs the foundation runs or supports: two hall-of-fame events, a new Taste of Sylvania food-truck event on the Friday before the first game, fall-festival participation, and ongoing scholarship distribution. She described the “100 for 100” campaign as a retired-staff fundraising drive that asks 100 former staff to donate $100 each; the foundation’s stated uses for that pool of money are (1) increased grant and professional-development funding for current teachers, (2) scholarships for graduating seniors, (3) $100 classroom-start gift cards for alumni who return to teach in Sylvania, and (4) an end-of-year luncheon or gathering for retired staff.
Jody said the campaign already is “a quarter of the way through” among the retired-staff coordinators who have signed on to solicit peers and that she expects matching grants to boost the effort. She asked board members to help with donor contacts and thanked the board for its support.
Ending: The foundation provided contact information and asked board members and the community to nominate hall-of-fame inductees by the Oct. 31 deadline and to attend upcoming events. The board did not take formal action on the foundation presentation; the report was informational.
