Join fellow NJ education foundations and visit us at the New Jersey Education Foundation Partnership Inc. (NJEFP) Annual Conference on Saturday, November 13, 2010 in Princeton.  Learn how local education foundations can provide important educational programs and resources to local schools.  This conference will offer existing, new, and emerging education foundations resources to help education foundations reach their goals.

Focus on Alumni - Not Events - to Move Your Foundation

By Dave Sternberg

National Schools Foundation Association

If your foundation believes that fundraising events can financially carry your organization, you'd better think again. That's the message that fundraising professional Dave Sternberg sends to directors and board members who want to rely solely on events to financially support their foundation. Continue reading →

What are public school foundations?

Education foundations are "privately operated, nonprofit organizations established to assist public schools" and who qualify as charitable organizations, "different from school districts, public institutions or local governments" (Clay, Hughes, Seely & Thayer, 1985). A public school foundation "is designed to augment, supplement, or complement programs and activities currently being provided by the district" (McCormick, Baver & Ferguson, 2001). Continue reading →