Welcome to the Westwood Elementary Foundation!
The Westwood Elementary Foundation is an independent, 501(c)3
non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of education for the students of Westwood Elementary by providing additional funds and resources that can be used to support excellence in education.
Accomplishments To-Date, 2008 Priorities, and Project Status
The Foundation has secured almost $150,000 in funding to-date to fund our school's
critical projects, but
there is much work left to do! We have identified four key fundraising goals totaling $90,000 for the current school year. Here is the status of our current projects.
| Project |
Estimated Cost |
Est. Cost Per Student |
Status |
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Fund an extra computer in every classroom.
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Completed |
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Fund an overhead display projector connected to the school’s
network in every classroom. |
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Completed |
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Fund a printer in every classroom, and raise the funds
to provide for ongoing supplies for those printers (ink cartridges etc.) |
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Completed |
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Lead the effort to secure grant funding for continuing fire-related counseling and support
services for the 2008-2009 school year |
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Completed |
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Provide funding to make up for the classroom/instructional
supplies general funding cut for the 2008-2009 school year (copy paper, copiers,
general classroom and office supplies. |
$10,000 |
$13 |
Underway |
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Fund the computers and infrastructure for a third computer/teaching
lab on campus. |
$30,000 |
$40 |
Opportunity |
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Fund Reading Plus reading support software to improve student reading
competence.
Learn More > |
$22,000 |
$28 |
Opportunity |
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Fund a Docucam teaching tool for each classroom.Learn
more > |
$25,000 |
$30 |
Opportunity |
Ways You Can Help
There are many ways you can help the Foundation
raise money to support our school!
| 1. |
Don't spend an extra dime! Just use your purchasing power to support the school.
By signing up your grocery store card through escrip, purchasing gift cards and doing your online shopping through
YellowBrick Mall
or SchoolPop
the school receives
a donation from merchants for every purchase you would make anyway. Just click
on any of the links below to find out more about these programs.
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| 2. |
Give us your email address.
Contact Us so we can alert you when stores have special
programs that would benefit the school. For example, if an office supply store
has a sale where they throw in a free case of copy paper with a purchase, we can
alert you and ask you to help out at that time.
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| 3. |
Make a secure
donation any time. |  |
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| 4. |
Supercharge your gift! Take advantage of employer gift matching programs. Just
ask your community relations or employee benefits department if your employer has
a gift matching program. Check our list
to see if your employer is already on our list - and please
contact us and alert us if we should add your employer to the list.
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