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Investing in the future of Alachua County's students is the primary mission of the Alachua County Public Schools Foundation, a not-for-profit philanthropic organization comprised of community leaders in partnership with our school system since 1986.

Letter From Our Director

Dear Friends,
Studies consistently show that a person’s earning potential is directly related to their education and training. Many students thrive in the public school system and are able to pursue post-secondary schooling or training on their own. There are, however, many students that need additional support in the form of mentoring,
tutoring and/or scholarships. That is where we come in. The primary goal of the Alachua County Public Schools Foundation is to help the children we serve reach their full potential.

We want to share with you some of our achievements from the past year:

• We gave away more than $82,000 in classroom and school-wide grants to help teachers and schools develop exciting and creative classroom projects to increase student success.

• Twenty-five seventh grade students entered our Take Stock in Children program, bringing our current enrollment of seventh through twelfth graders to 130. We are proud to report that 109 students have successfully completed the program and continued on to college or technical school.


• Senior Scholarships were awarded to115 graduating seniors continuing their education and training in technical schools, community colleges and universities.


• Over 4,000 first and fourth graders participated in our Black Stallion Literacy Program.


• As part of Career Tech Teacher Trek, 25 eighth grade teachers and counselors toured Alachua County’s thirteen Career Academy Magnet Programs.

• 112 dedicated teachers and staff members were rewarded with more than $34,000 in recognition awards and staff development scholarships.


Our success rests in the hands of our community – individuals, businesses and foundations that recognize that a strong community depends on every child having the opportunity to achieve success through education. We couldn’t accomplish this without your support.
In addition to changing the lives of our students, we have recently undergone some changes within the Foundation itself.

This past July we said goodbye to the wonderful Mary Chance, who served as the Foundation Executive Director for more than ten years.
I am honored to be the new Executive Director. I would welcome the opportunity to meet with each of you to introduce myself, tell you more about the Foundation and share my vision for our future. Please contact me, so that we can set up a time to meet in person, at 955-6891 or hasaktl@gm.sbac.edu.

Sincerely,
Taal Hasak-Lowy

Executive Director

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Board Members

Ellen Gershow, President
Dell Graham, P.A.
Rick Mulligan, Vice President
Jim Galloway, Secretary
John Schroepfer, Treasurer
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Margaret Boonstra, Immediate Past President

W. Daniel Boyd, Jr. EdD
Alachua County Public Schools
Chris Clore
Florida Credit Union
Rosemary Fagler
Plum Creek
Ed Jennings, Jr.
Jennings Development Group, Inc.
Jackie Johnson
Alachua County Public Schools
Eugene Jones
Santa Fe Community College
Melissa Murphy
Salter, Feiber, Murphy, Hutson &
Menet, P.A.

Donna Nicoll
Bank of America
Peg Nattress
Former SBAC Board Member
Tina Pinkoson
Former SBAC Board Member
Melanie Shore
Mercantile Bank
Terry VanNortwick
Pro Ink
Barry Wagner
AvMed Health Plans
Grace White
Ortho McNeil Pharmaceuticals
Brent Williams
WUFT-TV/WUFT-FM
Taal Hasak-Lowy, Executive Director


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