FOUNDATION FOR EAST BATON ROUGE SCHOOL SYSTEM
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Adopt an Elf
Adopt an Elf is annual campaign to give children in need of a Christmas they will never forget. Over 300 students from kindergarten to high school complete wish lists, which includes items of books, toys, gaming consoles, bikes, and basic needs of clothing and jackets. With community support, children who are homeless or in transition are given the opportunity to feel special during this time of year.
Back 2 School Bash
The Back 2 School Bash aims to prepare local K-12 students for the upcoming school year. This informal meet-and-greet allows parents and students to learn about school registration, bus routes, child nutrition, and everything in between. The local community provides entertainment of student performers, school bands, free children's haircuts, exercise sessions, face painting, a kid's play zone, and health screenings.
Summer Leadership Institute
The Summer Leadership Institute is a week long educational development where principals and teachers prepare for the upcoming school year. This event allows local school staff to develop leadership skills to enhance students' learning and cultural experiences for the upcoming school year.
North Baton Rouge Teacher Supply Fund
Many teachers in our community spend out-of-pocket funds to purchase supplies for the upcoming school year. To help offset costs, the The Teacher Supply Fund was created to empower educators and support student success. The Teacher Supply Fund ensures teachers have adequate supplies to foster student achievement and to create a classroom environment that is creative and conducive to learning.
Hurricane Ida Relief
Many students became displaced and lacked essential resources with the devastation of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana. To help serve local students, Hurricane Ida Relief was created to provide essential resources to community. Local relief consisted of canned foods, bottled waters, toiletries, and other every day necessary supplies.
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Affiliations & memberships
National Association of Education Foundations 2023
Association of Fundraising Professionals 2023
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Our results
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Total dollars received in contributions
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Direction of Success
Increasing
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
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.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
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.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
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.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
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FOUNDATION FOR EAST BATON ROUGE SCHOOL SYSTEM
Board of directorsas of 07/13/2023
Mrs. Padma Vatsavai
Vinformatix
Term: 2022 - 2024
Mary Kay Gerace
Carleton & Co. CPAs
Tim Barfield
CSRS
Stephanie Cargile
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge
Christina Davis
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Stacey Emick-Howell
YMCA of the Capital Area
Jamey Firnberg
School Aids
Robyn Merrick
Southern University
Patrick Olinde
Capital One Bank
Padma Vatsavai
Vinformatix
Sarah Walsh
Save the Children
Tré Nelson
Ochsner Health
Jonathan Percle
Emergent Method
Beth O'Quinn
retired, IBM
Ted Firnberg
Malavus
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
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.