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Education Foundation gives nearly $28,000 Funding will help provide the district with seven new school programs By DANIEl oFFNER
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The Rockville Centre Education Foundation presented a check to the school district for $27,720 on Nov. 16, which will help fund seven new grant opportunities. “Our mission is to raise money for innovative and enriching programs that go above and beyond what the curriculum can offer,” Mayda Kramer, the foundation’s president, told the Board of Education at its public workshop meeting last week, “or it seeds a brand new program that hopefully is successful, and the district will take it forward and continue to fund it.”
The education foundation is a volunteer-centric nonprofit that was created in 1991, with the goal of enhancing the district’s quality of education by providing financial resources for cuttingedge programs that go beyond the normal scope of the curriculum. Jean Harris, a foundation director, said that over the course of more than 30 years, it has raised nearly $1 million for school programs. “We consider it an honor and a privilege to be able to give back to the district,” Harris said. “It’s all for the kids.” November 23, 2023
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JEAN HARRIs, Director, Rockville Centre Education Foundation
Harris said that when the foundation was created, it held only one fundraiser in the spring, and it took a while for programs to be implemented the following fall. In the hope of speeding up the process, the foundation introduced a second grant cycle last fall, to provide more opportunities to fund new programs throughout the school year. In February, the foundation presented the district with a check for $14,933, which helped fund three new programs CoNtINued oN Page 18