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Corporate Support

The Waco ISD Education Foundation invests your dollars in creative educational projects that generate results in three focus areas: Early Childhood Education, Enhanced Programming for Advanced Students, and Extended Education for Staff. Click here to visit the grants section of the site or to find out more information about our funding focus areas. The links to the right include lists of current Foundation grants.

Since 1999, more than a half million dollars has been awarded to students and teachers in Waco ISD through grants and scholarships! In 2006, the Foundation granted more than ever before: $75,523 in 25 grants to 19 campuses. Please help us to reach ALL 32 campuses in the future.

BUILDING THE WACO ECONOMY
By investing in our community's future workforce, you are helping to create a stronger and thriving Central Texas economy.

Check, Visa/Mastercard or Pledges
Support the Foundation's annual campaign to fund grants for teachers and students in Waco ISD. Click here to donate on-line.

Portfolio Transfers
Contribute to the Foundation's endowment by transferring stocks, bonds or CDs. Call 254-755-9473 for more information.

Planned Giving
Tell your family and estate planner that you want to bequeath to the children of Waco ISD through the Education Foundation. Click here for wording suggestions for your will.

Memorials & Tributes
Honor your employees, family and friends in memory of their lives (memorials) or accomplishments (tributes). The family or honoree will be notified of your gift. Click here to donate on-line.

Matching Gifts
Business owners can support the future workforce by offering matching gifts when employees give to the Waco ISD Education Foundation.

Sponsorships
Use marketing budgets to benefit kids! The Foundation offers events and publication promotional opportunities that reach thousands in the Waco community.

Sponsorships are available for events or grant projects. Click here for information about sponsoring grants. For information about sponsoring events, please e-mail Traci Marlin at the Foundation (or call 254-755-9473). The golf tournament and celebrity cookoff web site is www.wacoisdfoundation.org/golf.

Society of Legacy Donors
Legacy donors (contributions of $10,000 or more) are offered naming opportunities for endowed grant funds. The Legacy Donor contributions become the matching challenge for the community each year. Donors are included on a memorial wall in the District. Click here for more information, such as the named endowment opportunities.

 

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Foundation Brochure
List of all grants to date
Memorial/Tributes donation form

GRANT HIGHLIGHTS


Technology for Education (TFE) offers the Frank Burke Memorial Technology Grant to teachers each year. Lorita Manning, the counselor at Bell's Hill Elementary, was able to purchase hardware and software for students to use for research about college and careers.


The Rapoport Foundation has contributed a $4,500 matching grant to the Foundation for several years. The annual grant $9,000 provides WISD's first-year teachers with $100 to assist in the creation of their first classroon.

Waco ISD Education Foundation | 254-755-WISD (9473) | PO Box 2369, Waco, TX 76703