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Board Members
Steve Miles
President
Alan Files
Vice President
May O’Leary
Treasurer
Sarah Barber
Thomas Evelyn
J. Roy Geiger
Anup Gokli
Leigh Gutches
Jack King
Michael Lamb
Teresa Lindsay
Stran Trout
Lynn Sodat
Exec. Director |
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Enhancing educational opportunities for New Kent Schools |
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New Kent Educational Foundation |
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Our Mission: The Mission of the New Kent Educational Foundation is to channel our community’s resources to promote and enhance educational opportunities for the students and staff of New Kent Schools. The Foundation's ProfileWhat started out as a small idea became a bigger vision as parents, community volunteers and school folks worked together to create the New Kent Educational Foundation. With a modest goal of $10,000, the Foundation worked through the planning stages, a Founding Sponsor campaign, and implementation of fund raising activities. The results were far more than we anticipated. For our first year, we raised over $38,000, primarily from contributions. We held two fund raising activities and met our goals: to award the Merle B. "Lisa" Gill Scholarship and to provide instructional grants to faculty at our schools. The Foundation has now raised over $70,000 for New Kent schools. In June, we completed an ambitious goal of providing $30,000 to the George Watkins Elementary and New Kent Elementary school libraries to assist in the K-5 transition. Our fundraising activities now include an annual Bowl-A-Thon in November, a Basketball Tournament in March, and a spring mailing campaign. The Lisa Gill scholarship is now an endowed scholarship, and we offered the NKEF Scholarship for the first time in June of 2007. We continue to offer instructional grants for teachers, and look forward to providing New Kent schools with funding for technology, our latest educational endeavor.
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Lynn Sodat Executive Director P.O. Box 110 New Kent, VA 23124 804 966 8557 |
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