Giving Opportunities

Public education faces many challenges.

Inadequate resources, concentrated poverty, higher workforce demands, administrator burnout, the need to raise expectations, and a shortage of teachers in critical areas. Too many schools lack resources. All students deserve a quality public education. Poorly performing public schools are ill-equipped and under-resourced.

There is a widening achievement gap between schools with resources and those without.

The most important lesson we've learned is that students excel when they have a strong foundation to support them - a foundation that constantly challenges and empowers teachers and principals, that focuses and involves families and communities, and that fosters leadership from the classroom to the principal's office to the boardroom.

We play a unique role.

• We facilitate investments in public education by private, public, and philanthropic sources.
• We develop key relationships with parent groups, the city and the school district.