5/3/05 -- During the opening General Session at the NSBA Annual Conference, the National School Boards Foundation launched a major fund-raising campaign to support the newly created Center for Public Education.
Conference-goers were encouraged to support the campaign, which received $70,000 in individual pledges from school board members and others who confirmed their dedication to the mission of the Center for Public Education.
Founding corporate and state school boards association donors already pledged $1.58 million in support of the campaign before the campaign was officially launched.
That brings total contributions so far to $1.65 million.
A commitment by NSBA will provide a substantial amount in additional support during the next five years.
The Center’s mission is to serve as the trusted resource for validated public education research, information, and tools. It will create a central resource with information about the challenges facing public school systems and stories about how those challenges are being met.
The Center also will help the public understand current and emerging education issues and articulate the value of public education as the solid foundation of the nation’s democracy and economy.
NSBA and the National School Boards Foundation extend their thanks and appreciation to all of the donors: corporations, state associations, and individuals, who affirmed their belief that the Center for Public Education is essential.
To find out more about the campaign, contact the National School Boards Foundation at (703) 838-6228. To learn more about the Center for Public Education, visit www.nsba.org/ PublicEd.
Donors support Center for Public Education
Corporate Founding Donors
Ambassadors Circle ($500,000-$999,9999)
Brokers’ Risk Placement Service Inc.
Director’s Circle ($250,000-$499,999)
ARAMARK
Patron’s Circle ($100,000-$249,999)
Munich-American RiskPart- ners, a division of Ameri- can Re-Insurance Co.
Pearson Education
Sodexho School Services
Benefactor’s Circle ($50,000-$99,999)
Scholastic Inc.
State Association Founding Donors
Platinum Circle ($250,000+)
Texas Association of School Boards
Gold Circle ($150,000)
Illinois Association of School Boards
Individual Founding Donors
($5,000+)
Diane Brunworth, in honor of Mary and Frank Seitz, Missouri
Anne L. Bryant, Virginia
Susan Kellner, in honor of Spring Branch ISD, Texas
Kathleen Kinley, California
$1,000 to $4,999
Richard Anderson, Virginia
Barbara A. Andrews, Pennsylvania
Barbara L. Bolas, Pennsyl- vania
Steven L. Chalke, in honor of Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School, Massa- chusetts
Margaret and Steven Chidester, California
Susan Francis, Delaware
E. Jane Gallucci, Florida
Clifford Green, in honor of Cumer Green, Idaho
Justin King, Michigan
Robert A. Lane, Alabama
Kevin and Julie McCann, in honor of Guillermo and Juliana Sanchez, Oregon
George H. McShan, Texas
Alonzo and Sarah Moody, in honor of their grandchil - dren, New Jersey
Luan B. Rivera, California
Joan Schmidt, in memory of David Traner, Montana
David L. Thomas Jr., Alabama
Bill and Maxine Williams, Washington
Norman D. Wooten, Alaska
$100 to $999
V. Lloyd Acton, Indiana
Anthony Amato, Louisiana
George and Mimi Anderson, Illinois
Tom Bennett, Oregon
Jill L. Brake, Colorado
Joie W. Cadle, Florida
Central York School District, Pennsylvania
James H. Clark, in honor of Dr. Stan Scheer, Missouri
Kerry Clegg, California
Mike and Julie Collins, in honor of Mrs. Shirley Collins and Mrs. Joan Scofield, Ohio
E. Harold Fisher, Mississippi
Connie Fletcher, Wash- ington
Tanya Freudenberger, in honor of Alum Rock School District, California
Gene and Maureen Gant, in memory of Gina, Eric, and Kristen, New Mexico
Jimmie M. Garland, in honor of the Garland family, Tennessee
Kathryn Groth, Maryland
Barbara Hartman, Ohio
Joe Hatcher, in honor of Alex and Cody, Wisconsin
John A. Hayden III, Mary- land
Vicki Icard, Texas
Holly James, Louisiana
Ernest M. Jensen, Idaho
Heidi A. Katz, in honor of the Council of School Attorneys, Illinois
Dorothy Kendall Kearns, in honor of W. Weldon Kendall, North Carolina
Cynthia Lutz Kelly, Kansas
Duane B. Kelly, Missouri
Duane H. Kirkman, in honor of Hickory Public Schools Board of Education, North Carolina
John W. Koepke, Kansas
Jocyelyn Kreig, in honor of children everywhere, Pennsylvania
Bonnie L. Lepson, Penn- sylvania
Brad A. Letner, California
Sharon E. Manson, Ohio
Michael O. and Susan W. McDermott, Iowa
Debbie McLeland, Wyoming
John Nelson, Vermont
Dave Olsen, in honor of Merced UHSD, California
Carolyn Ortman, Oregon
Harlan C. Parker, Kentucky
Elizabeth Partoyan and Doug Benge, in honor of Gale Linck Partoyan, Virginia
Robert and Megan Rader, Connecticut
Patrice Robinson
Barry Rubinstein, in honor of all the children of the
world, New York
Charles J. Saylors, in honor of Joyce D. Saylors, South Carolina
Herman E. Schaffer, Texas
Karen K. Schultz, in honor of Dennis Kellison, Virginia
Evelyn L. Shapiro, Arizona
Mary Beth Shelton/Reading Community City School District, Ohio
Jerry and Ann Shively, Idaho
Marie Slater, Illinois
Evelyn M. Stock, New York
Henry R. Varriano, in honor of Glenn Tillou, New Jersey
Janet Walker, New York
Monty and Deidra Wardell, Wyoming
Joe I. White Jr., North Carolina
Dennis and Julianne Whitling, North Carolina
Louise Woods, in honor of Margaret L. Speight, North Carolina