From the beginning, the independent community organization’s unusual strategy was to raise money for an endowment that will continue to provide increasing funding every year to sustain and enhance programming outside of the regular curriculum.
In addition, each school in the district currently has its own endowment of at least $10,000 that is earmarked for helping fund special events or programs. A foundation goal is to get every individual school’s endowment to $50,000, returning at least $2,500 to that school for grants each year.
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