Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation 2017 Annual Report

2017 Annual Report Ensuring the Future

Dedicated to promoting education by fostering supportive relationships with Eau Claire Area School District and the community; raising funds to provide learning opportunities for students, teachers and staff; and awarding grants for value-added projects.

ECPSF, an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3), is a supporting organization of the Eau Claire Community Foundation.

500 Main Street, P.O. Box 511 • Eau Claire, WI 54702 • Office: 715.852.3015

Fax: 715.852.3019 • www.ecpsfound.org

Letter From the ECPSF Chair 2017 has been an exciting year for the Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation as we continue to grow and expand opportunities for the kids in our district. ECPSF continues to provide funding to support innovative projects, hands-on experiences, new extracurricular opportunities, and much-needed materials for the students and classrooms of Eau Claire Area School District; 2017 was no exception.

Because of your partnership and support, the Foundation was able to grant funding for: a STEM day on UWEC campus, a history research field trip to Madison, a theatre field trip to Minneapolis, an in-service opera experience, sustainable and educational gardening, a new mountain biking club, a new robotics club, and so much more. Enclosed, you can view the list of all of the year’s grants, and see the impact that more than $78,000 was able to provide.

As a physician in Eau Claire, and a parent to children in our schools, I have the privilege to see first-hand the partnerships created through ECPSF and how they benefit our kids.

I encourage you to make a difference today with a gift or a pledge to the Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation. Planned and endowed gifts create an impact forever, and gifts at any level can benefit our students today.

It is an honor to chair the board, and I welcome your partnership with our schools! Together, we can ensure the future.

2017 - 2018

Board of Trustees Dr. Blenda Yun, Chair Dustin Wiesner, Treasurer Grant Beardsley Ned Donnellan Mike Emberson Ken Faanes Jenny Postlewaite Fesenmaier Michelle Harris Kimberly Hill Jeff Jones Heather Market-Sullivan Jim McDougall Dave Morley Becky Noland Peggy O’Halloran Flo Sheridan Ex-Officio Mary Ann Hardebeck Kathryn Proctor Duax Past Chairs Charles Grossklaus (2015-17) Dan Market (2011-15)

Contact: Sarah C. French, Executive Director 500 Main St., P.O. Box 511 Eau Claire WI 54702

Dr. Blenda Yun, Chair Physician, Mayo Clinic Health System

The Golden Apple is awarded annually in April by nomination of peers and distinguishes one outstanding educator in each of the Eau Claire Area School District’s schools. ECPSF partners with generous area businesses to sponsor unrestricted grant funding for each honoree and school.

Cheryl Moss, special education assistant, was honored for Northwoods Elementary School in 2017. She used her Golden Apple grant funding to create a new sensory room, referred to as the “ZEN” room, a space for all students to utilize!

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Featured Grant STEM Makers Space Robotics Club Each year, countless faculty and staff write in to the Foundation with funding requests to support new and innovative projects. In 2017, one of the grants approved was for technology education teacher Rob Beese to launch a new STEM Makers Space robotics club for Northstar Middle School, offering hands-on, applied learning opportunities for students to build and program robots together.

With additional funding for added robot kits, more students were able to participate in what Mr. Beese called “a positive/challenging environment”, and the club expanded to offering Blugold Beginnings to partner as well. The club is an engaging and fun educational experience for the students. “Without this grant, we would not have been able to have multiple teams compete against each other in robot challenges,” Beese shared. “The generous grant from the foundation helped lay the groundwork!”

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2017 ECPSF Grants Eau Claire Area School District Border Battle fundraising expenses Fifth grade track meet expenses Homeless Program - winter gear & shoes

Memorial High School All-Night Graduation Party Musical instruments for special education Old Abe Hall of Fame

DeLong Middle School Foreign language books

North High School All-Night Graduation Party Circle of Friends event at Metropolis Live-streaming kits Music stands Prom tickets for Circle of Friends

Flynn Elementary School Playground equipment, swings & ball toss Lakeshore Elementary School Opera for the Young Longfellow Elementary School LF Mile T-Shirts Manz Elementary School Classroom supplies Govin's field trip Odyssey of the Mind state tournament McKinley Charter School All-Alum McKinley reunion gathering Dig It Garden

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Northstar Middle School Christmas Carol Guthrie Theatre field trip Eau Claire Children’s Theatre field trip New robotics club STEM Day at UWEC Prairie Ridge Early Learning Center Cooking with Crockpots Project Fight Against Hunger Program Food shelf supplies Home meals for food pantry crockpots Putnam Heights Elementary School Foreign language books

Robbins Elementary School Art class weave project Sam Davey Elementary School Blugold Beginnings Como Zoo / Minnesota Orchestra class field trip South Middle School New mountain bike club Feed My People Food Bank Food orders; Prairie Ridge Fight Against Hunger Program

Scholarships Lawrence University Ross Proctor Music Scholarship for Hayden Guckenberg University of Minnesota Ruth Girnau Scholarship for Emma Lauer UW-Madison J Murphy STEM Scholarship for Mikaela Walters

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Funds for Today

Endowed Funds for the Future

The Funds for Today support projects and initiatives that meet current student needs.

They include a Greatest Needs Fund for each school in the district; these Funds house unrestricted gifts to the school to be used for the school’s greatest needs, as assessed by the school principal and then approved by the ECPSF Board of Trustees. Gifts to these Funds for Today have an immediate and beneficial impact on ECASD students.

Endowed Funds for the Future safeguard the principal of all the funds in perpetuity, while their earnings are available on an annual basis to support school programs, scholarships, or special projects as well as to assist students in need. Because of these Funds, students now and far into the future will benefit.

ECPSF Fund for Today North and Memorial All Night Graduation Party Dream Act Fund Golden Apple Fund Homeless Children and Youth Fund

ECPSF Endowed Fund for the Future

Market Family Education Fund

ECPSF Fund for Tomorrow

McKinley Charter School Post-Secondary Success Fund

Artist in Classroom Endowed Fund

Math Teachers Circles Fund Border Battle Fund – an extension of Homeless Children and Youth Fund Prairie Ridge Fight Against Hunger Fund

DeLong Middle School Endowment Fund

Memorial Class of '58 Endowment

Eric Mosel Scholarship Fund

The Ross Proctor Music Scholarship Fund

Homeless Children & Youth Scholarship Fund

Ruth Girnau Scholarship Fund

J. Murphy STEM Scholarship Fund

Terry and Flo Sheridan Education Fund

New Fund in 2017

New Fund in 2017

Featured Fund Artist in Classroom Endowed Fund A new fund at the Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation is supporting a hands-on, creative learning experience for young students! The Artist in Classroom Endowed Fund was established by Mitchell and Liz Spencer in order to provide support for an artist to share her/his art and technique with Flynn Elementary students and faculty over the course of an entire semester.

"It is important to bring the artist into the school and classroom and for the faculty and students to become involved with the artist. The purpose of the Artist in Classroom program is to expand the experience and knowledge of the both the students and faculty," Mitchell shared.

21.7 AVERAGE ACT SCORE

Eau Claire Area School District (ECASD)

Highlights

EXCEEDING BOTH STATE (20.2) AND NATIONAL (21.0) AVERAGES

ACHIEVED NATIONAL CERTIFICATION FOR

88.9 / 100 ECASD SCORED HIGHEST IN WI ON POST-SECONDARY READINESS

PROJECT LEAD THE WAY

#1

RANKED OVERALL DISTRICT REPORT CARD SCORE COMPARED TO THE TEN LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN WISCONSIN

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Please make checks payable and send to: Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation • P.O. Box 511 • Eau Claire, WI 54702 Credit card donations can be made online at www.ecpsfound.org

For more information, please contact: Sarah French, Executive Director sfrench1@ecasd.us • 715.852.3015

Financial Report Statement of Financial Position (Unaudited)

Statement of Financial Activity (Unaudited)

ASSETS

SUPPORT & OTHER REVENUE

Checking and Money Market

2017 $

Investments Pledges Receivable TOTAL ASSETS

353,876

2016 304,413

Contributions to Funds

1,175,943

991,876

Contributions to Operations

6,000

11,300

$ 1,535,819

$

$ 1,307,589

2017 $

2016

224,210 $

726,690

4,478

102,327

156,963

39,887

5,473

3,075

391,124

871,979

Grants

58,688

55,203

Program Expenses

32,340

71,415

Operating Expenses

43,196

38,262

Administrative Fee Expense

22,363

22,800

Investment Gains (Losses) Administrative Fees TOTAL SUPPORT & OTHER REVENUE

LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS Other Liabilities

$

Total Liabilities

$

4,347

2,405

Beginning Balance of Net Assets Change in Net Assets TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS

2,405

4,347

1,303,242

621,368

230,172

681,874

$ 1,535,819 $ 1,307,589

GRANTS & EXPENSES

Investment Management Fees Total Grants & Expenses CHANGE IN NET ASSETS

4,365

2,425

160,952

190,105

$ 230,172 $ 681,874

Founding Partners for Education The Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation wishes to thank the Founding Partners for Education who generously established a strong base of support through leadership gifts to the District Wide Fund for Today and the District Wide Endowed Fund for the Future.

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Mary Ann & Herb Hardebeck

Becky & Dave Wood

Dean J. Arnold

Slavko & Elizabeth Ivankovic

Dr. Blenda Yun & Lane Biggs

Louis G. Arnold

Jerry & Jane Johnson

American Phoenix, Inc.

David & Gail Barnes

Wendy Sue Johnson

William & Beth Blackburn

Jeff & Karen Jones

Eau Claire North High School Athletic Booster Club

Steven Brimmer

Jack & Sally Kaiser

Greg Caucutt & Amy Carr Caucutt

Mary Beth Kelley-Lowe & Scott Lowe

Patricia Cigan Trish Cummins & John Plewa Kathryn Proctor Duax & David L.F. Duax*

Harold 'Diz' Kronenberg Marv Lansing & Nancy Kraft Dan & Debbie Market

Ken & Lori Faanes

Jef & Eileen Munger Family

Mark & Donna Faanes Family

David E. Richie

Jim & Lynn Fering

Terry* & Flo Sheridan

Thomas & Monika Fiedler

Kirk & Wendy Strang

Mike Graf & Lisa Stelter Graf

Susan & Roger Tietz

Charles & Becky Grossklaus

Skip & Jane Van Gorden

Wayne & Carole Halberg

Family & Friends of Michael J. Webb

Christine Hambuch-Boyle & Stephen Boyle Family

Ben & Lori Whitis

Eau Claire Seymour Lions Club First Choice Occupational Medicine & Disability, Hebl Family Ken Vance Motors Lasker Jewelers, Lasker Family Macy's Foundation Market & Johnson, Inc. Micon Cinemas, Mike & Connie Olson Family Northwestern Bank Scheels Wipfli Xcel Energy * Denotes deceased