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INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE
A Legacy of
Institutional Community Service
Upon its founding, Crossroads took a leadership position among independent schools by requiring community service of all its students. Believing that Crossroads should model what was required of the students, we also created our own program of “institutional community service.”
History
Paul Cummins
In the 1990s, the Crossroads board formally endorsed the School’s commitment to institutional community service. With initial funding from the Herb Alpert Foundation and Crossroads School, Crossroads Community Foundation (CCF) was created with Paul Cummins as founder and executive director. Its first project was the creation of P.S. ARTS, whose purpose was to make available to underserved public schools quality arts programs reflective of the Crossroads curriculum and philosophy. Enormously successful, P.S. ARTS now serves more than 17,000 Title I students in the Los Angeles area and the California central valley. In 2003, P.S. ARTS became its own entity.
President, New Visions Foundation, Crossroads Co-Founder and Trustee, 1971-73, Headmaster, 1973-93, President, 1993-2002
Crossroads Community Outreach Foundation (CCOF)
By Roger Weaver President, Crossroads Community Outreach Foundation, Crossroads Headmaster, 1993-2009
In 2003, CCF was reconstituted as the Crossroads Community Outreach Foundation (CCOF) with Roger Weaver as president. e change was made to enable Crossroads to share its resources with Title I schools in the greater Los Angeles community by creating programs that benefit children and their education. continued on Page 14