In case you haven’t heard, the Lake Washington Schools Foundation hired a new Executive Director, Doug Seto, in June. About that same time, the Board of Trustees elected a new President, Terri Blier, for the upcoming year.

As new leaders, we are both excited about the upcoming year. There are many opportunities to further develop Foundation programs and grow our revenues to ensure academic excellence for all students. This newsletter highlights some of our programs, donors, and grants that show how your dollars are making a difference.

We’re off to a great start and look forward to the 2010-2011 school year. As always, we welcome your interest, questions, and feedback about the Foundation. You can find us in the School District Resource Center at Redmond Town Center.

Doug Seto, Executive Director
Terri Blier, Board President

Terri Blier (left)
New LWSF President
Doug Seto (right)
New LWSF Executive Director

We are excited to announce the Lake Washington Schools Foundation in partnership with the Lake Washington School District received a $130,000 grant from the Microsoft Corporation to support the implementation of a Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) based high school program in the District. A future announcement will provide details on how the district will use the Microsoft grant within the district. Want to know more about S.T.E.M.?

We received a grant from the AT&T Corporation for $10,000 to support the LINKS Mentoring Program that will allow the Lake Washington Schools District to develop a secondary schools pilot mentoring program for Junior High School and Senior High School students. During the 2009 – 2010 School Year we supported more than 100 mentors that were involved with tutoring and classroom support. The AT&T grant will enable Lake Washington School District to impact even more students.

We received a grant for $2,500 from U.S. Bancorp Foundation to support LINKS. For the second year in a row the City of Redmond supported LINKS with an $8,000 grant. Want to know more about L.I.N.K.S.?

We want to acknowledge and thank these organizations for their leadership and commitment to L.I.N.K.S.

In response to our ‘Back to School’ requests, our generous community donated over $12,000. Thanks so much to those community members that answered our call.

In its continued effort to support academic excellence and student success, the Lake Washington Schools Foundation has awarded more than $50,000 in grants to schools in the Lake Washington School District. Schools in Kirkland, Redmond, and Sammamish will use the grants to extend student learning opportunities in math, literacy and science, and to provide assistance for students with financial needs.
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Congratulations to LWSF Board Member Shelley Kloba: Washington State PTA's 2010 Outstanding Advocate.

Give With Your Time - Volunteer for LWSF

We continue to seek volunteers at the Foundation, we have opportunities in volunteer coordination, school Ambassador programs (Foundation representatives in each school), grant reading, mentoring (LINKS), communications, and our annual Legacy for Learning luncheon fundraiser in April. For volunteer information, go to www.lwsf.org.

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