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What is the E3 School Site Rep? The Foundation is excited to announce a new position! We are looking for some new team members! The position we have available is for an E3 - School Site Representative at each school in the Etiwanda School District. This person would be our "go to person" when we need to communicate with the schools. This person would receive data and information regarding the Foundation events and communicate these things at their own school site. This person would be the "E3 Cheerleader" for their school site. We may ask them to represent the foundation at their school’s staff meetings, open house, and back-to-school nights. This person would meet with the board on a quarterly basis. If you are interested, please call 909-899-2451 x 3175. |
What has E3 been Up2? Past You may be wondering where in the world the E3 Foundation came from. For starters, the E3 Foundation is short for Etiwanda Excellence in Education Foundation. Back in 2004, Shawn Judson, superintendent of the Etiwanda School District asked for some brainstorming ideas about how to start an education foundation. There were many people that offered up ideas. A plan was formed and an education foundation was established. The idea was to start something that could help out in times of budget shortfalls. In 2005, the E3 Foundation was granted tax-exempt status as an education foundation dedicated to supporting all schools in the Etiwanda School District. One of our initial focus points was the reduced library funding: in 1999 the California Library Funding Act provided $28.14 per student, and in 2005 it provided $0.68 per student. For the 2005-2006 school year, we raised a total of over $7,500 that was divided amongst each of the schools. Together, adding over 160 books, and 1,610 accelerated reader quizzes to the libraries of the schools. This was over and above what district and school sites had in their budgets for the year. In the 2006-2007 school year, we held our first Projecting Excellence in Education fundraising dinner and raised $32,000 to be used towards purchase and installation of additional LCD Projectors for the classrooms. The district had a plan for implementing the projectors over a 3 year period, but we were able to speed up the time that it took to get projectors into classrooms, into teacher’s hands and teaching students with the new technology.
This year, we have raised over $12,000 from the 3rd Annual E3 5K/2K and it will be distributed to the schools to use for their physical education programs, however they can best use the additional funds (see story on page 1). On October 17, 2008 we will be having our second annual Dynamite Dinner – Projecting Excellence in Education. In alignment with the district’s goals, we will continue to apply the proceeds from this fundraising event to the purchase and installation of projectors and equipment to enhance the projectors.
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Future We updated our logo. You may have noticed the new color on our logo. Our logo was designed to be the letter “E” and the number “3” overlapping with a student in the middle. The two tones of purple were hard to distinguish at times, so we have changed it and now the number “3” is green. Hopefully you will see students in the middle of E3 each time you see our logo. We are a new organization and constantly growing. We are looking to include an E3 Site Coordinator at each school. We have the Engraved Brick program going on for the dedication of the new district office and we have added our foundation to the goodsearch.com search engine. You will find additional information about all these items throughout the newsletter. We plan on publishing this newsletter on a quarterly basis from now on: Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. If you have article ideas, student artwork, stories, photos or other ideas that would be great for our newsletter, please visit our website at www.e3foundation.org and submit your information to the newsletter editor. |
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