2013 annual report - East Lansing Educational Foundation

East Lansing Educational Foundation
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East Lansing, MI
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Annual Report
2013
East Lansing
Educational Foundation
501 Burcham Drive
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: 517-333-7439
Fax: 517-333-7470
Eastlansingedfoundation.org
30 Years of Supporting Students
1 Million Reasons to Celebrate
A Note from the ELEF President
It may seem odd to be reviewing an “annual” report that covers January, 2013 through June, 2014! In December, 2013, we
realized a goal of raising of over $1,000,000 to provide supplemental funding for materials, innovation, extended experiences,
and learning opportunities for all students in East Lansing. To be sure we gave a correct and true accounting of this fund, and
be sure we honored all of our generous donors, we purposely waited to present this report to you.
The East Lansing Educational Foundation was established in 1985 to solicit donations from citizens and business sources to
support the East Lansing Public Schools. Since 1989, we have made grants to classrooms to provide supplemental enhanced
learning experiences and materials to all levels, Kindergarten through 12 th grade. These funds have been instrumental in maintaining the excellent education our schools provide for our students. Through this series of endowed and general grants, we
provide over $35,000 per year for classroom use in arts, sciences, student leadership and other enhanced opportunities.
The tremendous response to our requests for donations from our community is gratifying. Every donation helps bring a dream
or vision of an educator in our schools to life. Please accept our heartfelt gratitude for your role in making dreams a reality.
The East Lansing Educational Foundation supports all
ELPS educators and students to excel and innovate by
collaborating with our community to raise and
distribute financial and in-kind resources.
The completion of the $1,000,000 endowment campaign will provide these supplemental funds in perpetuity. We continue to
encourage novel learning opportunities, as well as connecting our community to our schools, through the donation process. For
more information or to make a donation please visit our website at: eastlansingedfoundation.org
Sincerely,
Mindy Emerson
ELEF Board President
Your donations to our general fund made $35,000 in grants to
The ELEF has granted over $400,000 to East Lansing
classrooms that provided teachers with innovative and
supplemental materials to further engage our students
in their learning.
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Assessment for elementary art
Visiting author (Red Cedar)
Supplemental reading materials (Donley,
Pinecrest)
Anti-bulling materials (MMS)
Math enrichment materials (Donley, Red Cedar)
Peer assistance leadership materials (ELHS)
Theater microphone (ELHS)
Making science come alive (Red Cedar)
Platinum Business Part-
Kevin Draggoo
Draggoo Huber Team
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International musician– all K-4 and 5-6 buildings
PE equipment (MMS, Whitehills, Marble)
Big Zoo lesson (Red Cedar)
Document cameras (ELHS)
Guest jazz artist (ELHS)
STEM software (MMS)
Folk dances from around the world (Whitehills)
Speech and Language materials (MMS)
Take home reading program (Red Cedar)
Gold Business Partners
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Visual arts books (Pinecrest)
African drumming ensemble (Marble)
Life skills for special education students
(ELHS)
Literacy listening center (Pinecrest)
Latin American music, dance and
culture (Pinecrest)
You are an East Lansing education hero! Thank you for donating in 2013
ELEF Board of Did you attend the 2014 Annual Awards Dinner?
Directors
Senator
Gretchen
Whitmer
presenting
the ELEF
Award to;
Julie
Cawood,
Cindy
Herfindahl,
Jill
Mittleman,
and
Bridget Paff
Honoring
their work
on the
$1,000,000
Endowment
Campaign.
Mindy Emerson, President
Amy Uecker, Treasurer
Ann McDaniel,
Endowment Treasurer
Joan Berardo
Scott Carney
Dave Chapin
Mary Crawford
Linda Grua
Barb Hagan
Wanda Lipscomb
Jim Papazian
Kate Powers
Blair Renfro
Mary Strolle
Bob Wirtz
Our 15th Annual
Awards Dinner and
Golf Outing will be
held on May 14,
2015.
All of the funds raised from the
Annual Awards Dinner and Golf
Outing support our General Fund for
teachers grants!
ELEF’s 2013 By the Numbers
Total donors in 2013: 306
Total volunteers in 2012: 98+
Total grants awarded: $35,000
Money raised from Annual Golf
and Awards Dinner: $ 10,745 (net)
Total guests at Awards Dinner:
250
Grades impacted by grants: K-12
Total endowment funds:
$1,071,674.23
Grants by Subject*
Grants by Grade*
Grants totaling $34,838.87 supported reading, writing, math and
speech in 2013. The largest grant
was for a master class and
performance series conducted by an
international recording artist and
cultural educator for three
days
that reached all kids in grades K-6.
Pinecrest received $4,105.00 for
Ipads to support students' in ELA
and Math again blurring the lines
between technology and the core
curriculum.
Donley received four grants totaling
$2288.05.
Marble: three grants totaling $1347.75.
Pinecrest: eight
grants totaling $6788.07. Red Cedar:
five grants totaling $4522.00.
Whitehills:
two
grants
totaling
$728.10. MacDonald Middle School:
six grants for $2138.74. ELHS: eight
grants totaling $4687.16.
All K-6
elementary buildings:
two grants
totaling $12,339.00
Students who took ELEF sponsored ACT Prep Workshops: 231
*Grants are competitive and based on applications submitted by district educators.
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Annual Report 2013
We are honored to recognize the individuals and organizations that financially supported education in
East Lansing through ELEF from 1/1/ 2013– 10/31/14. If we missed you, we are so sorry. Let us know!
Private Donors
Jean and Gerald Aben
Paul Abid
Nancy Abramson
G. Robert Adams and Nancy Foltz-Adams
Pauline Adams
Rima and Raphael Addiego
Susan Allis
George and Donna Anderson
Jennifer and Alan Arbogast
Sherri Arnold
Kifayeh Assaf
John Baker
Shirley and Charles Ballard
James and Jodi Bappert
Ralph and Mary Barrett
Doug and Polly Barr
Janet Bedford Dye
Ted and Connie Benca
Antje Benenson
Joan and Patrick Berardo
George and Jane Bitsicas
Linda Blair
Cynthia Blakeslee
Alvin and Dorothy Boettcher
Bill and Julie Boettcher
Robert and Carolyn Boger
Mary and William Boss
Lisa and Christopher Boyd
Matt and Wendy Boyle
Daniel Brainard and Julia Popenoe
Alexis and Dennis Branoff
Janet and Raymond Brock
Patricia and David Brogan
Leona Bronstein
Barbara Burke
Sally Burroughs
Roger Busfield
Claire Byerrum
Al and Beth Cafagna
Richard Carson
Sue and Bill Chandler
Eleanor Chapin
Laurie and Dave Chapin
Anne and Leigh Charamella
Russell Chavey and Christina Winder
Delbert and Jennifer Chenault
Quy-Phuong and
Der-Chuan Chuang
Barbara and Edward Church
Christopher Clampitt
Frances and Michael Clark
Jean Costigan
Mary and Eric Crawford
Warren Creamer
Patty and Jim Croom
Bill and Nancy Danhof
Peter and Laura DeGuire
Tim and Heidi Dempsey
James Derleth
Barb and Chris DeRose
Dr. Scott and Kim Dickinson
Sal DiFranco
S W Dittenhofer
Elizabeth and Dr. Jeffrey Docking
Reade Dornan
Barbara and Mark Doyal
Kelly and Erik Drake
Dr. John and Judy Dunn
I. Zachary Dyme
Jason and Jennifer Early
Mark Edington
Tony and Virginia Egnatuk
Kathryn and Kwadwo Ekye-Addai
Rick and Mindy Emerson
Jayne Erickson
Sue and Frederick Fabian
Steven Findley
Sharron Fineout
Kathleen Fineout
Alan and Carol Fisher
Dolores Fitzgerald
Tracy Fleming
Linda and Dennis Fliehman
Nathanael Flynn
Sheila and Bill Flynn
George and Gail Foster
Julie Foust
Denise Frieder Carr and Tom Carr
Loraine Friedl
Anne Ganakas
Sandra Gebber
Pamela and Phillip Gillespie
Phyllis Gilroy
Donald and Joan Gochberg
Diane and John Goddeeris
Jeffrey and Christine Goebel
Catherine and David Goldhaber
Joyce Goodman
George and Susan Graeber
Edward and Ellen Grafius
Fred and Jean Graham
Richard Grams
Ruth Greenbaum
Linda Gregorian
Margie Griffith
Maureen Gross
Barry and Sandra Gross
Phyllis and David Grummon
Dorsey and Karl Gude
Linda Guider Grua, Mark Grua
and Seth Grua
Shirley Guider
Robert Gwizdz
Frances Hackney
Dr. Edmund Hagan
William Hall and Helen Ross
William and Susan Hamilton
Thelma Hansen
Linda and Kenneth Hanson
Phyllis and Donald Harden
Mike and Debby Harrison
James Hart
Pete Hasbrook Jr. and Annette Hasbrook
Michael and Ann Hayes
Larry and Mary Hennessey
Alan and Karen Henry
Geoffrey Hertel
Eleanor Heusner
Mary Hoffman
Jean and Richard Holland
Cathie Jo and Patrick Holleran
Jerry and Kathy Hollister
Dennie Hoopingarner
Iris and David Horner
JoAnn Hubbard
Dolores and Robert Hughes
Catherine Hunt and Jack Teachout
Amy Huntley
Phyllis Irwin
Liz and Jim Jamo
Rafael Javier and Mary Sharp
Mary Jesse and David Juckett
Sudhir Joglekar
Jeffrey Johnson
Dr. Richard Johnson
Cara Jones
Simone Joyaux
Jane Joyaux
David Juckett
Donna and Michael Kaplowitz
Elizabeth Keenan and David Houston
Robert and JoAnne Keith
Kevin A Kelly Action Fund
Clifford and Barbara Keppeler
Raymond Kinzel
Mark and Sheryl Knox
Elaine Knox
Annette Kopachik
George and Shelley Lahanas
James and Kathleen Lammers
Jeffrey Lapinski and Beverly
Bonning
Ms. Rebecca Larson and Jim Dearing
Mary Ann and John Larzelere
Janina Latack
Paula Latovick and William Weiner
Marilyn Ledebuhr
Jane and David Ledebuhr
Mike Leffler
Mary and Curtis Liechty
Doug Lindell
Wanda and Keith Lipscomb
Floyd and Carolyn Littlefield
Jim and Cheryl Little
Nancy and Vic Loomis
Ed and Berrie Lounsberry
Frank and Patty Lupi
Wendell Lynch and Kit Carlson
Jeanne and Joseph Maguire
Rob Marshall
Julie and Pete Martens
Jennifer Martin
Bill and Sandra Mason
Richard Maury
Timothy and Barbara McCaffrey
William McClintock
Jim McClintock
Ann and Mike McDaniel
Dorothy McDonald
David and Nancy McKeague
Barbara McMillan
John Melcher and Cindy
Herfindahl
Mabel Menadier
Vernon Mesler and Nan Jackson
Michael Meter
Bob and Nancy Metzger
Elaine Michener-Israel and Mark Israel
Plummer Mifflin
Norman Miller
Robert and Shelagh Miller
Suzanne and David Mills
Jill and David Mittleman
Thaddeus and Cindy Morgan
Sylvia Morse and Scott Swinton
Jon and Mary Nelson
Sally and James Newton
Christine Nichols and Stewart Binke
Irvin and Christy Nichols
George Nugent
Mary Lou O'Connell
Lola O'Meara
Edmund and Jane Outslay
John and Bridget Paff
Barbara and Jim Papazian
Dawn Parker
Nancy Passanante
Helen and Lawrence Pedersen
James and Margaret Pestka
Lauren Peters
Beth and Dennis Petrowitz
Julie and Robert Pettibone
Jeanne Pierce
Patricia Poli
Vladimir Poltoratzky
Milton and Sue Powell
Kate and Jeffrey Powers
Barb Powers
Sally and William Pratt
Ken Price
Susan Price
Gonzalo and Martha Puente
Lewis Resnick
Teresa Revalds
John Revitte
Mary Rhodes
Al and Kay Riegel
Stanley and Mary Ries
David and Cheryl Ronk
Ben Ropp
Bradley and Margaret Ropp
Paul and Maureen Rosenbaum
Patricia Roth
Sylvia and Karl Rundquist
James Ryerson
Roy Saper and Nell Kuhnmuench
Nancy and Eric Schertzing
Thomas and Sheila Schimpf
Jerry Schuur
Katie Scott
Jim Sellman and David Balas
Cliff Seybert
Nancy and Peter Sheldon
Ronald and Kathryn Shepard
Brian and Sally Silver
Rick and Marty Simonds
Ron and Mary Simon
Sam Singh
Jim Smith and Rebecca Grumet
Christopher and Charlotte Smith
Maria and Phillip Smyka
Sandra Soifer
Pauline and Ted Sondag
Tom and Kay Sparks
Paul Spata
Louise Sternberg
Charles Stoddard
Jessie Storey-Fry
Mary Strolle
Mark Strolle
Andrew Stumpff
Loretta Subhi
Clarence and Loretta Suelter
Tonya Sundermann
Bill and Mary Swallender
Lisa Swem
Michael Sword
Wendy Sylvester-Rowan
Polly Synk
Bing Tai and Catherine Allen
Judy Tant and Nelson Missbach
Emily and Diana Tarpoff
Julie G Thomas-Beckett and Rocky Ray
Beckett
Kevin and Mary Thomas
Susan Topping
Jane Turner and Elias Strangas
Amy and Bob Uecker
Bob Ulrich and Patti Oates-Ulrich
Tony and Paula VanDam
Erik Van Geel
Tony and Paula VanDam
Michael VanMeter and Judy Hillman
Cathryn Viehl
Tom and Teresa Villarreal
George and Huei Wang
Stephanie and Edwars Watts
Arthur and Kristy Weber
Jane Wei
Jeffrey Weiner
Susan and Steve Wildman
Audrey Wilson
Seann Wilson
Bob Wirtz
Lee Wolford and Lee King
Jack and Sharon Woodhams
Karen Yuker
Sue Ziara
Dave and Rhonda Zimmerman
Barbara Zynda
Corporate Donors
Brogan, Reed and VanGorder
Brookover, Carr and Schaberg
Cawood Building Company
Charles Hagan, D.D.S.
Church Wyble, PC
Class of 1963
Coldwell Banker Hubbell Briarwood
Consumers Energy Foundation
Coral Gables
Craig Spencer D.D.S
Crippen Buick GMC Mazda Volvo
Dean Transportation
East Lansing Basketball Club
East Lansing Woman's Club of
East Lansing
Five Sisters Foundation
Grand Grillin
Granger
Grua, Tupper and Young
Harrison Roadhouse
Horizon Community Bank
IBM
Jane Bitsicas, Doncaster Clothing
Kevin Draggoo, Merrill Lynch,
Draggoo Huber Team
Kiwanis Club of East Lansing
Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis &
Gotting, P.C.
McGinty, Hitch, Housefield, Person, Yeadon
and Anderson, PC
MESSA
Michael Peters, D.D.S
Michigan Group Benefits
Miller, Canfield
Musselman Realty
Plante and Moran, PLLC
Stifel Nicolaus
Sylvan Learning Center
Team One Chevrolet
TechSmith
Thrun Law Firm
TowerPinkster
Yes on East Lansing Tech
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