FOUNDATION FOR EAST BATON ROUGE SCHOOL SYSTEM

The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System is a tax-exempt public charity and grant-making organization that provides vital support to area students, teachers, and school administrators by building effective partnerships and funding high-impact projects for which tax dollars are not available. Our vision is to connect our community and its resources so every child can become educated for a successful future. Our mission is to provide sustained financial support to enhance education and champion innovation for the children within the East Baton Rouge Parish School System.

Over the next 3 years the Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will focus on 7 fund development and advocacy goals and 15 operational goals to strengthen, measure, and expand the impact of community investments in our schools and children. Some of these goals include the following:
- Build the Foundation structure and successfully engage business and individual investors to successfully raise annual dollar targets for EBR school students.
- Build the Foundation-to-Campus linkage to help investment.
- Build a Cornerstone Club of 40 investors/corporations who will commit to a $25,000 gift per year for 3 years for a total investment equaling $1,000,000 to the Foundation per year/ $3,000,000 total to the Foundation will all founders on Board.
- Establish an annual for general corporate and business investment in public education with two tiers: large "strategic asks" for larger corporations and general business investment.
- Assist school leaders in building partnerships in their areas and cultivating local "Special Friends" on direct aid to schools - tracking donations of minimum $1500 into the system.
- Create an individual giving society for donations to the Foundation.
- Research and develop/design a campaign to help public school children to be conducted annually starting in either 2024 - 2025 school year or fall of 2025
- Create a comprehensive advocacy and community outreach plan - sharing the new ROI processes and fund development plans for targeted results in schools.
- Upgrade budget and its development to attain independence of the Foundation from EBR in 5 years.

The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will establish annual targets by year, create 3-4 teams of the Foundation Board and have teams complete funding strategies for each with tracking and accountability built for each category.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will work with EBR to teach and enhance professional development to aid with investor recruitment and engagement.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will secure a core team of 10 founders to lead the visionaries' initiative and complete a timeline and prospect.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will target 50 business donors starting with a gift range of $5,000 to $20,000 to secure out-of-state money and other foundational funds.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will complete the professional development training on partnership development and support principals in securing 200 partners for the EBR schools. Investing and fundraising for programs like the Summer Leadership Institute will allow the Foundation to better support and assist local principals and staff.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will establish a "Neighborhood Business Friends" approach to secure the campus partners.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will establish a planned giving initiative within society.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will set up a vehicle for individual and family gifting.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will name a design team to identify the campaign components for a "wide and out loud" public appeal; completing the plan for the Foundation Board to consider by close of 2023 - 2024 school year.
The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System will finalize the annual core message of the Foundation for both advocacy and for marketing. Also, we will define mechanisms for engagement and outreach.

The Foundation for EBR Schools works closely with all stakeholders (teachers, principals, administrators, and parents, as well as the business community) to understand and address the most pressing, unmet needs of the local public schools. With the generous help of individuals, private organizations and corporations, the Foundation supports a variety of programs, specifically targeting the development of skills and knowledge in science, technology, engineering, art and math.