The
Virginia Education Foundation's mission is to support Virginia
Title I public schools and qualifying
organizations in
Virginia that serve the
educational needs of low-income children and eligible
students with disabilities
Here
is
some of what we've done recently
Over $3 million of quality children's books to support education
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Danville
Public Schools
VEF
has donated over 45,000 new, quality books
valued at over $693,000
to the Danville Public School System for
students in 8 elementary schools and 6 secondary
schools. This donation helped
over 6,000 students - all of whom (100%) are
low-income.
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VHF
has recently donated about 24,000 new, quality books (retail
value over $340,000) to the Lynchburg City Public Schools for
their elementary and middle school students.
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Henry
County Public Schools
VEF
has donated over 24,500 new, quality books
valued at $359,000
to the Henry County Public Schools to support
scholastic instruction
and literacy. Henry County has 9 Title I
elementary schools. Over 7,100 students benefitted.
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Roanoke
City Title I Public Schools
VEF
has donated over 45,000 new,
quality books valued at over $692,000
to Roanoke City Public Schools. Over
96% of their students are low-income. Over 9,600 students benefitted.
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Richmond
City Public Title I Schools
VEF
has donated about 44,000 new, quality
books valued at over $663,000
to Richmond City Public Schools as part
of their "Lit
Limo Literacy" program. They
have a student population of over 21,000 who have benefitted - all
of whom are low-income.
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Henrico
County Title I Schools
VEF
hasd donated over 30,000 new, quality books valued
at over $384,000
to Henrico County Public School students in
Title I classrooms as part of
their "Reading
Skills and Strategies" program. Over 9,000 students (75% of whom are low-income) in 21 schools benefitted.
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Louisa
County Schools
VEF
provided 4,300
books valued at $67,900 for Louisa County's
Title I
elementary schools and middle
school to support grade
level reading for their low-income
elementary and middle school
students and for students with IEPs.
Louisa students
with a few of the books donated by VEF
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Culpeper County School System
VEF donated over 4,300 new, quality books
valued at $63,900
to the Culpeper School System for
scholastic instruction for over
2,100 students - about 1,350 are
low-income.
VEF's
Founder/Director
George Beker with a Culpeper student
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First
Lady
Pam Northam's Back-To-School Tour
VEF
provided support for the assembly and
delivery of boxes of
quality
children's books to Title I elementary school
classrooms and Head Start
classrooms. The books were distributed by
First Lady Pam
Northam
at each of the Title I schools and programs she
visited on her
state-wide tour.
Pam
Northam reading to a Title I
classroom
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Agnor
Hurt
Elementary School Reading Project
VEF
provided hundreds of new, quality books valued
at over $8,000 to support the
school's reading and literacy efforts
with low-income, Title
I children. VEF's books are also being
used in Agnor Hurt's new
Read-Aloud program.
Some
of the books donated to Agnor Hurt
by VEF
and
Angor
Hurt students enjoying them . . .
 
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300
After-School Programs
VEF
provided funding to the Virginia
Partnership for Afterschool
Programs (VPOST) to enhance educational
outcomes and reading
levels for low-income and disabled students
attending 300
after-school programs across
the Commonwealth. VEF's funding helped
these programs acquire
thousands of quality books.
Boxes
of books given to 300 after-school
programs at the VPOST
Conference
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Books
for
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
VEF
partnered with the disAbility Resource
Center (dRC) and Virginia's
Children First. VEF gave them several
hundred carefully
selected
books and other educational materials for
scholastic instruction with
low-income children, deaf and hard of
hearing children, and
mentally-challenged adults.
disAbility
Resource Center's Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Coordinator, ReBecca
Bennett,
discusses dRC's literacy and reading
programs with VEF founder, George
Beker
Books
for
Farmington Elementary
VEF
provided $13,450 of children's activity
books to Farmington
Elementary School in Culpeper to support
their reading and
literacy efforts.
  Farmington
students exploring
VEF's activity books
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Books
for
Madison Primary
VEF
provided $3,500
of children's educational activity workbooks
to Madison Primary, a Title I school,
to support
their reading and literacy programs
with kindergarten and first grade students.
Assistant
Principal, Jackie Ovalle, meets
with George Beker
to accept VEF's book donation
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Title I public schools and organizations
funded or supported by VEF
are committed to promoting and enhancing children's literacy,
school
readiness, grade
level reading, and school success for primarily low-income
children in Virginia.
While
VEF's grant-making is typically by invitation,
inquiries concerning support are welcome
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