Contact
Info
Tel 650-324-1653
Fax 650-326-7751
Postal address
PO Box 19290
Stanford, CA 94309
Electronic mail ccef@cceflink.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Capacity-Building
Workshop
for Local Education Foundation Leaders
Creating
Opportunities in Challenging Times -- a summary of three workshops
presented in fall 2009 can be found by clicking here
Similar
workshops,
sponsored by DIRECTV, are being scheduled forApril in
west Los
Angeles (April 28), and the Ventura/Santa Barbara area (April
30.) Contact CCEF to be put on the mailing list or to reserve a place in one of the workshops.
To register, download the registration form for the Manhattan Beach workshop
or the registration form for the Ventura workshop, and send it to CCEF.
Education
Foundation
Fundamentals Workshop -- May 21, Sacramento NEW
Are
you considering starting a local education foundation
(LEF) in your district;?
Do you have a beginning local education
foundation?
Do you have an education foundation that needs to be
revitalized?
Do want to provide training for new or current
foundation board members?
Then
you should plan to attend Education
Foundation Fundamentals May 21 in Sacramento. Contact CCEF for
details or to be put on the mailing list.
Learn from experts on legal, fiscal, political, fund development, programmatic, organizational, and governance issues relating to local education foundations. Leaders from local education foundations are invited to share successes and challenges as well as participate in skill-building trainings.
Plan your next steps and network with other foundation leaders. A limited number of partial scholarships may be available.
To
register send registration
form to CCEF.
Legal
Issues
Update: A Basic Primer, by Ronald T.
Vera, Gutierrez & Vera, LLP, provides a legal update for local
education foundation leaders. This document was presented during
the annual conference.
TV
program First to Worst - In the 50's and 60's California had one of
the best school systems in the country. Now it has one of the worst.
What happened over the course of 40 years that led to this decline? And
what is California doing to raise its system back up?
CCEF will be
distributing a DVD of the program plus "talking points" for local
education foundations wanting to host a town hall meeting. Contact the
CCEF office for availability.
CCEF white paper
on Local Education Foundations and Lobbying prepared by Ronald T. Vera,
Guitierrez & Vera and CCEF Advisory Board, is being made available
to all LEFs in California through a generous grant from the California
Casualty Group. Contact CCEF
regarding additional copies or to order if not an LEF.