School Foundation, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Grants, Start SMART and Start 2 Read initiatives
Grants target student academics and citizenship, teacher quality, school safety and district leadership and are designed to have high impact across the district. Our StartSMART and Start 2 Read programs reach parents and young children in Florence and surrounding counties.
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We would like to see our StartSMART and Start 2 Read initiatives become a model across the state of South Carolina so ALL children will be on track and ready for school. Approximately 400 children receive age appropriate, high quality board books monthly through our Start 2 Read program and parents are educated on dialogic reading.
We hope to maximize grants for future years to better prepare FSD1 students to possess all the skills, knowledge and life and career characteristics as displayed in the profile of the South Carolina Graduate.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To maximize fundraising through our two annual events: Dancing For Our Future Stars and our Annual Gala. This will allow us to optimize grants awarded to FSD1 educators. We continue to fund grants comprised of critical thinking and reasoning; information literacy; collaboration; self-direction; and invention.
Our StartSMART Advisory Council is comprised of local agencies and organizations that serve young families. We strive to maintain and increase number of partners and their involvement with the Council.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have the program, staff and leadership in place to implement our school readiness initiatives statewide.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have expanded the Start 2 Read program in numerous businesses and schools across Florence, and have developed the RN Beck Child Development Center. Our original goals were to increase the number of children entering kindergarten with early learning skills, encourage parents to read to their preschool age children daily, provide high quality training for teachers of young children in the Florence area at child care centers, home child care facilities, schools and private education centers, increase the number of high quality child development facilities throughout FSD1, provide child development information to all families with young children, increase community awareness of high quality preschool education at home and at school, and assist businesses as they seek to offer family/children friendly policies. Facilities have been renovated and we have hired a full-time director of school readiness, child care center managers and a full-time parenting specialist. Several programs have been implemented such as Parents as Teachers, Parent/Child Home, and expansion of Child Development classes. This year, we will be expanding beyond Florence into the Pee Dee Region. We are making progress!
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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School Foundation, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 01/07/2019
Mr. Jeff Helton
Honda of South Carolina Mfg., Inc.
Term: 2008 - 2018
Mr. Ed Love
King Love & Smith, PA
Term: 2011 - 2018
Ed Love
King, Love & Smith, PA
Jeff Helton
Honda of South Carolina Mfg., Inc.
Courtney Cribb
McLeod Health
Marion Ford
Retired
Mary Lynn Woodward
Florence School District One
Annie Brown
AnnBro International Training
Trisha Caulder
Richard C Harrington
American Specialty Products
Charlie Jordan
Katie Wilcox
Pee Dee Electric Cooperative
Jean Leatherman
ERA Leatherman Realty
Tammy H Pawloski
FMU Center of Excellence for Teachers of Children of Poverty
Randy Bridges
Florence School District One
Jeff Stevens
Carolina Canners, Inc.
Barry Townsend
FSD1 Board of Trustees
Mindy Taylor
Duke Energy
Brent Tiller
Pinnacle Network Solutions
Carlos Washington
Brooke Evans
Dusenbury, Snow & Evans, P.A.
Judith Kammer
Robert LeMaster
Edward D. Jones
Tommy Pruitt
Ruiz Foods
James Sheehy
Burch, Oxner Seale Co., CPA's, PA
Suresh Tiwari
Florence-Darlington Technical College
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes