Customized packages for Education Foundations
Start-Up Package
Is your school district or school cluster interested in starting an education foundation to leverage resources and philanthropic dollars from the community? Start strong with the tools and training you need to ensure stability and long-term success. With more than 30 years of combined experience leading education foundations, we can help you engage your stakeholders and create an organization that will bring people together in support of kids.
Includes:
- Data collection: stakeholder surveys and interviews
- Board development strategy based on governance best practice
- Setting your mission, vision and strategic direction
- Creating a financial infrastructure including budgeting, and reporting
- Resource development planning including database set-up and development, donor stewardship protocols and campaign planning.
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Revitalization Package
Does your district or school cluster have an existing education foundation with untapped potential? Have you experienced a change in district or foundation leadership that has provided an opportunity to revisit your strategy? Are you looking to better align the foundation’s work with the needs of your students, district and community? We can help your foundation articulate where you want to go and help build a roadmap to get there.
Includes:
- A high-level organizational assessment and summary of key findings
- Data collection: facilitation of stakeholder surveys and interviews
- A board development strategy and tools based on governance best practice
- Honing your mission, vision, and creating a strategic roadmap
- Assessment of financial infrastructure with recommendations for strengthening your budgeting and reporting tools and processes
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Our Qualifications
- More than 30 years of education foundation leadership.
- Combined, raised more than 20 million to support public school students.
- Robin Callahan served as the executive director of the Issaquah Schools Foundation from 2000-2016, She was executive director of the National School Foundation Association from 2016-2019 and co-chaired the NSFA National Standards Task Force to create the industry’s first national standards. Robin was part of the first cohort of executive directors to complete the training to become a Certified Education Foundation Leader. She served on the National Advisory Board of American School Foundation Alliance from 2013-2015 and was co-founder and co-chair of the Washington Public Schools Foundation Network from 2006-2016.
- Gail Rothman served as the Executive Director of the Decatur education foundation from 2009-2023. She was a member of the NSFA National Standards Task Force which codified the industry’s first national standards. She was in the first cohort of executive directors to complete the training to become a Certified Education Foundation Leader and she chaired the Industry Leadership Council of the National School Foundation Association from 2018-2021. She has consulted with a variety of education foundations across the country and hosted webinars and workshops on a wide range of education foundation topics.
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