Alternative Financial Sources

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Alternative Financial Sources

• Tyree Clark, Teddy Dillingham, Lindsey Fleming
• Jarrod Tahsequah, Lindy Waters, LuAnn Werdel

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Democracy in America

• These Americans are the most peculiar people in
  the world. Youll not believe it when I tell you
  how they behave. In a local community in their
  country, a citizen may conceive of some need
  which is not being met. What does he do? He
  crosses the street and discusses it with his
  neighbor. Then what happens? A committee comes
  into existence and then the committee begins
  functioning on behalf of that need. And you
  wont believe this but its true All of this is
  done without reference to any bureaucrat! All of
  this is done by the private citizens on their own
  initiative.
• -Alexis de Tocqueville,
• Democracy in America

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Fiscally Challenging Times

• It is becoming increasingly difficult for
  schools to deliver educational services using
  traditional sources of revenue such as the
  proceeds of broad-based taxes. The resulting
  fiscal strain has prompted efforts to identify
  and draw upon alternate sources of revenue.

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Alternative sources

• We will share three possible sources of
  alternative funding
  
• School Business Partnerships
• (LuAnn Lindsey)
• Foundations (Jarrod Tyree)
• Competitive grants (Teddy Lindy)

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School /Business Partnerships-History

• Businesses and schools have been involved with
  each other since the late 1800s, and their
  relationship formalized into partnerships since
  the late 1970s-However, conditions in the 1980s
  accelerated the development of these partnerships

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1980s

• Education crisis in public schools
• Low skill level of entry-level workers
• Demands of an evolving economy
• Between 1983-84 to 1987-88, business partnerships
  rose from 42,200 to 140,800
  
• Grobe et al. 1993, p.4

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History cont..

• Initially, educational partnerships were created
  by school system staff to
  
• Foster school-community cooperation
• Provide incentives for students
• Supplement curriculum and staff
• Obtain equipment
• And Businesses gained by
• Improved public relations
• Enhanced community image
• (Clark
  1992, p.2)

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History cont..

• However, during the 80s, school reform called
  for changes that would ultimately transform the
  nature of education and business partnerships.

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What has changed?

• Schools were faced with the need for
  educational reform measures that would better
  prepare a diverse student population for the
  higher order thinking and reasoning skills
  required in an increasingly knowledge-based
  service-driven economy, and..

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What has changed cont..

• Businesses were faced with the threat of an
  inadequately prepared work force that would
  jeopardize their competition with other
  industrialized nations.

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The Roads Converge

• Motivated to improve the academic and technical
  skills of the future work force, businesses and
  schools joined in partnerships of various sizes
  and types to achieve their common and separate
  goals. Schools certainly needed the human and
  monetary resources that business seemed inclined
  to invest, and business needed educated, highly
  skilled employees.

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A note of caution

• Before a school partners with a business,
  ethical and philosophical issues need to be
  considered by school leaders
  
• We share no common vocabulary
• Our bottom lines represent different outcomes
• Do we even share a fundamental belief in exactly
  what the issues are?

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Rewards of Partnerships

• Whatever the type of business and education
  partnership, the benefits must be realized by all
  partners or the arrangement is not a partnership
  (Grobe et al. 1993) In successful partnerships,
  the benefits radiate from one partner to another,
  resulting in rewards for all involved..

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Rewards cont.

• Education gains
• increased access to new technology
• enhanced opportunities for professional growth
• Students gain
• reduced truancy
• reduced drop-out rate
• Business gains
• better prepared work force
• increased public confidence and support for
  education
  
• And improved quality of community life and the
  potential to improve the economic health of the
  entire country.

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Business Partnerships with Schools
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Goals of Business Partnerships

• Education is the key to successfully preparing
  youth for careers in the 21st century
  
• Verizon- Commitment to education is driven by
  its responsibility as a good corporate citizen
  and by the understanding that todays students
  will be tomorrows employees, consumers,
  regulators, and neighbors.
• Integris Health- Returnship is giving back to
  the community in financial, emotional, physical,
  and spiritual ways.
  
• Other businesses leaders view their involvement
  in education primarily as a way to conduct market
  research and advertise in schools.

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Concerns

• National PTA adopted a resolution that warned
  against any business exerting so much power to
  influence the curriculum (National PTA 1997).
  
• Many education policies now condemn certain types
  of school-business relationships as exploitation
  and a violation of public trust (Center for the
  Analysis of Commercialism in Education 1999).
  Educators and policy-makers are especially
  critical of corporate sponsors who use their
  access to a captive audience for commercial
  purposes (tobacco contract).

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Example- Santa Fe South Charter High School

• Charter law allows for outside solicitation
• Charter schools act as not-for-profit agency
• Access private foundations, govt. grants, private
  donations, business partnerships
  
• Naming Rights (Kerr McGee Biology Lab)
• Auction (Local car dealerships)
• Wal-Mart (Scholarships, buildings)
• Hobby Lobby (buildings)
• County Health Department (Idea of Community
  Center)
  
• Regents for Higher Education (Collaboration of
  partnerships Hospitals - Vo-tech - schools)
  

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FOUNDATIONS
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Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence

• http//www.ofe.org
• 156 local education foundations
• Average existence of 11 years
• Oldest were formed in 1984
• More than 15 million distributed in 2000 2001
  school year
  

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Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence

• Programs with the most impact
• Grants to teachers
• Staff development grants
• Mentoring and tutoring
• Scholarships

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Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence

• Most successful fundraisers
• Membership drive
• Annual campaign
• Alumni solicitations
• Events and activities
• Duck races, carnivals, golf tournaments,
  auctions, pancake dinners, alumni brick sidewalk,
  etc.
  
• Contributions

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Norman Public School Foundation

• Painting A Brighter Future

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What is the NPSF?

• Began in 1984 with seventy-eight community
  leaders making their commitment to the
  educational future of children by establishing
  the Norman Public schools Foundation. A Board of
  Directors comprised of community volunteers was
  formed which operates independently from the
  school administration or school board of the
  Norman Public Schools. The Purpose of the
  foundation is to award grants to teachers to
  enrich the academic curriculum on Norman Public
  Schools

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What is the mission of the NPSF?

• The mission of the Norman Public Schools
  Foundation is to enhance the educational
  experience for students in the Norman Public
  Schools.

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How Does the Foundation Operate?

• They are a non-profit, tax exempt organization.
  A portion of all contributions from their fund
  drives is placed in a permanent endowment. The
  remainder of the contributions along with the
  interest from the endowment is used to fund
  grants to teachers.

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How does the NPSF get its money?

• Tax-deductible contributions to the NPS
  Foundation are given during the annual
  fundraising drives. The businesses, families,
  and caring citizens, as well as memorials and
  tributes, are given to insure that Normans
  students continue to receive the highest quality
  of education in the state.

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How are grants selected?

• The allocation committee, comprised of
  foundation board members along with community
  volunteers, read grants each semester submitted
  by teachers. Names of schools and individual
  teachers are withheld on each grant application
  when being evaluated by the committee

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Grants to Teachers
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What types of grants are funded?

• Classroom sets of graphing calculators for
  advanced statistics courses
  
• Telescopes for middle school environmental camps
• Numerous computer software programs and licenses
• Historical maps and video
• Numerous sets of supplemental reading programs
  and books, math manipulatives, microscopes,
  computer headphones, puppets for primary grades,
  and music and art materials.

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Oklahoma City Public School Foundation

• http//www.okckids.com
• Established in 1984

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Oklahoma City Public School Foundation

• MAPS for Kids
• Collaboration among City of OKC, OKC Public
  Schools and OKC Public School Foundation
  
• Sales Tax Proposition
• 512 million over seven years
• 29 million collected to date
• Bond Proposition
• 180 million over five years
• 82.7 million currently sold

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Oklahoma City Public School Foundation

• MAPS for Kids
• Allotted funding
• 478 million for construction and renovation
• 52 million for computer technology
• 9 million for buses
• 153 million for suburban districts
• 3,678.66 per pupil

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Oklahoma City Public School Foundation

• Principal for a Day
• Began in 1991
• 95 OKC public officials and 750 community leaders
  participate
  
• Arts Funding
• Grants designed to improve art curriculum
• 280,000 awarded to date

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Oklahoma City Public School Foundation

• Partners in Education
• Began in 1994
• 70 of 94 OKC public school are engaged
• Power Hour
• Follow the Leader
• It Makes Cents
• Lets Celebrate
• Business Internships
• 2,500 volunteers
• Goal of 10,000 tutors by 2007

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Oklahoma City Public School Foundation

• Summertime Savings Coupons
• Frontier City admission
• Benefit concert
• At Bat for Books
• SBC, Oklahoma Redhawks and OKCPSF
• Volunteers to reduce or eliminate substitute
  teacher pay
  
• 2 million dollar saving to OKC district

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Oklahoma City Public School Foundation

• Endowment for the Pursuit of Teacher Excellence
• 1 million privately funded
• OKC public school teachers achieve National
  Certification
  
• 2300 cost (2000 grant)
• 5-year commitment to OKC PSD
• OKC PSD goal to lead the nation in certified
  teachers by 2010

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GRANTS
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Proposal writing is a part of a process that
includes

• Planning
• Research
• Outreach
• Collaboration of partnerships

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Developing a Grant-writing Team

• Knowledge about the grant writing process
• Knowledge of research techniques
• Background in areas addresses by the grant
• Knowledge of population to addressed by the
  grant
  
• Writing / reviewing skills 

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Gathering research for the Grant requires
background documentation and research in three
areas

• Concept
• Program
• Expenses

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Requests for Proposals (RFP)

• Abstract or Executive Summary
• Statement of Need or Significance of the Problem
• Program Objectives or Program Goals
• Project Description or Plan of Operation

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Requests for Proposals (RFP)

• Applicant and/or Community Support
• Organization Information or Corporate Capability
• Evaluation of Program
• Budget / Budget Justification or Budget / Budget
  Narrative
  
• Appendices

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U.S. Department of Education

• http//ed.gov
• Good source for grants funded through the U.S.
  Department of Education
  
• Can be confusing to navigate

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Oklahoma State Department of Education

• http//sde.state.ok.us
• Limited source for federal and state grant
  information
  
• Easy to use, but sometimes slow to download

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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

• http//www.cfda.gov
• Extensive source for all federal grants (both
  education- and non-education)
  
• Easy to use

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