Welcome to the Successful Education Foundations Teleconference and to our participants. Thank you for attending and for furthering the growth of education foundations in your communities.

I am Judy Rovins, Rovins Educational Group, and based in Westport, Connecticut. I will be moderating our session.

Our goal today is to listen to our three speakers give useful information on successful ways to have your foundation boards, volunteers and staff, raise funds for your K-12 education foundations. We will listen to what works and what doesn’t work.

After each speaker presents, we will open the line for you to ask questions about your foundations.

Our first speaker is Ken Grounds, CEO, Educational Foundation Consultants, who is based in New York City. Ken personally has created and developed nearly 150 foundations for educational institutions, and re-engineered dozens of foundations. Widely interviewed and quoted, Ken Grounds is a primary source on educational foundations for the New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, ABC News and other media.

Ken will speak about contrasting factors for educational foundations which are successful versus those which struggle.

Our second speaker is Clare McCully, Executive Director, Newton Schools Foundation in Massachusetts. Clare has increased the amount given annually to support projects in the schools from $79,000 when she arrived in 1997, to $250,000 in 2002, which she continues to do. Clare created the Massachusetts Education Foundations Association in 1999. She has taken the lead in fostering the growth of community education foundations by assisting in areas such as strategic planning, by-laws, board makeup and funding strategies. Clare McCully is one of the few leaders nationally with successful strategies for developing your alumni donor base and endowments.

Our third speaker is Dr. Vik Joganow, Superintendent, Passaic Valley Regional High School District, Little Falls, New Jersey. He has served as Executive Director, Passaic Valley Regional High School Education Foundation; was the co-founder of the Totowa Education Foundation; was an ex-officio member of the Sparta Educational Foundation Board of Trustees; was past president of the New Jersey Partners in Education Board of Trustees; and as a consultant assists many school districts with the establishment of educational foundations.

Dr. Joganow will speak about the importance of the buy-in of the superintendent and school administrators for your foundation to succeed and grow.

Note: A few disk recordings of the teleconference are available for $100.
Contact judy@rovins.org.

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