The OD reported that at a time when state aid is being cut, city school officials are hoping to open up a new avenue for revenue to the school district.
The district will start up a nonprofit education foundation for fundraising in the community.
A spearheading meeting to begin to establish the foundation and search for a board of directors is scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday at the new district administration building, 106 Memorial Parkway.
“This foundation will look at those needs we have for certain programs and get things accomplished that we don’t have the money to do,” Superintendent James Willis said. “They will organize and coordinate fundraising in the community and hopefully we will be able to benefit from an untapped resource.”
The group would oversee an account that already has $560,000 in it that was raised several years ago for a high school stadium project.
The meeting is open to the public.
Willis said he wants community members to come and give their input into who they believe would be the best fit for the board of directors.
“We are looking for people who have a large influence in the community and region,” Willis said. “They would be point people for fundraising — people with pull who can lend their name to fundraising.”
Creating a fundraising foundation has been discussed in the district for about a year.
Willis has pushed the idea more as the district has been faced with dwindling state aid.
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