Previous Grants

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Previous Grants

• Video / computer multi-media presentations
  Newtown Jr. High
• GrowLab Sol Feinstone Elementary
• Kids on the Block district-wide
• Greenhouse Goodnoe Elementary

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Financial Concerns

• Scarce and uncertain resources
• Budgetary constraints
• Act 1
• Taxpayer concerns
• State cut-backs

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Advisory Committee

• Formed in December, 2005
• Met with representatives from various districts
  and Foundations from public and private sectors
• Listened, questioned, discussed, and researched
• Recommended to Mr. Klein to revitalize the
  Council Rock Education Foundation

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Our Purpose

• To support continued educational excellence in
  our schools

• To promote alternative funding to
  enhance innovation

• To encourage community involvement
• and partnerships

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What is C.R.E.F. ?Council Rock Education
Foundation

• We are a tax exempt, not-for-profit foundation
  seeking funds from the private sector to support
  innovative and cutting edge programs within the
  district.

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Who is CREF?

• We are community volunteers including parents,
  alumni, business and community leaders, residents
  and educators who are committed to our children

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Finance Committee

• Permanent Committee
• Fiscal Oversight including
• Donations
• Fundraising
• Grants, Scholarships and Awards

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Directors

• Permanent Directorships
• School Board President Patricia V. Sexton
• Superintendent of Schools Mark J. Klein, Esq.
• Standing Members
• Executive Board
• Jennifer Frawley Alan Harvison
• Dolores McCracken Barbara McGill
• Mariann McKee Michael Reid
• Marilyn Scarpa Robert Winters

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Board of Directors

• Executive Board
• President Michael Kreps
• Vice President Jill Shurtleff
• Secretary Fran Lerner Grupp
• Treasurer Robert Schoch

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Mission Statement

• The Council Rock Education Foundation reflects a
  Community commitment to children.
• Our purpose is to promote programs which will
  lead to the overall enrichment and continued
  excellence of the quality of education and an
  enhancement of community support for Council Rock.

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30 N. Chancellor Street Newtown, PA
18940 www.crsd.org/cref