LGL: Foundation for Erie's Public Schools
This week's Loving Giving Local donation takes us to Erie High School as we learn more about the Foundation for Erie's Public Schools.
The Loving Giving Local crew made a stop at Erie High School this week to learn more about the Foundation for Erie's Public Schools.
The foundation has been around for over 10 years, aimed at building the capacity of the school district to do fundraising for the schools and support their mission.
Every year they work to raise money for the school district and support the boosters and organizations for the sports teams and clubs.
'We help out with fundraising we run a couple of large fundraising events every year and we kind of have systems that give back to the district as well,' said Rick Schneider of the Foundation for Erie's Public Schools.
He said they do all types of work but it's all in continuing and fulfilling the mission of providing the best possible educational support for the kids in the district that they can.
One of their major projects this year is their classroom mini-grant that goes out to teachers all across the district.
'They support the work that the teachers are doing in their classrooms, lots of different things have been funded over the years. We have funded experience for students outside of school. And for teachers that bring families to the school doing cooking exhibitions with students and funded a lot of classroom enhancement things that teachers are working on,' Schneider said.
He said the $250 from Auto Express will in part help fund one of those classroom mini-grants for one of their teachers.
This includes things that might be outside the ordinary for instance, a quite comfortable reading area in a classroom.
'You know anytime we can bring Loving Giving Local to a school foundation, we know that that donation that we bring stays right in the school district, right in the community. And to learn today that our donation is going to go towards a mini-grant is going to benefit a teacher and ultimately benefit the students that they teach, that is what Loving Giving Local is all about. It's all about the community and this foundation does a great job with it,' said Joe Askins of Auto Express Resale Center.
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