Build a Better Future One Student at a Time
Donations received by the Foundation are directed toward three goals: to enrich and expand innovative classrooms, to enhance student activities and athletics, and to honor student achievement through scholarships and awards.
Build a Better Future One Student at a Time
Donations received by the Foundation are directed toward three goals: to enrich and expand innovative classrooms, to enhance student activities and athletics, and to honor student achievement through scholarships and awards.
Gifts to the Foundation
The Annual Circle of Giving
Donors are recognized for making annual contributions to the Foundation at the following levels.
$5,000 or more
$1,000 to $4,999
$500 to $999
$100 to $499
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Alternative Ways to Help
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CentreGives is an online giving event designed to encourage community giving and to support non-profit organizations.
The Penns Valley Education Foundation is an approved charitable organization for Thrivent clients to apply their Thrivent choice dollars to us. Contact Thrivent for more information: thrivent.com
Penns Valley School District Employees
Employees of the Penns Valley School District may contribute a lump sum at any time or contribute monthly to PVEF through payroll deduction. Please see the district business manager for appropriate paperwork.
Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC)
Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program allows businesses to lower their tax bills by donating to scholarship organizations, educational enrichment initatives, pre-k programs, and private schools. Below are several programs that EITC funds support.
PVEF Approved Programs
Artists in Residency
This program supports bringing visual artists, craftsmen, and performance artists to Penns Valley students. The guest artists and craftsmen will be commissioned to work with teachers and students on projects ranging from small, one day demonstrations to more in depth, long term tasks or performances. Kindergarten through 12th grade students in Music, Art, Drama, and Wood and Metal Classes will benefit from this program. The EITC funds will be utilized for supplies, materials, and stipends for the artists and craftsmen.
Community Support for Advanced Studies
Similar to the Artists in Residency Program, this program connects Penns Valley students with academic and industry experts in order to study academic concepts in greater depth than traditional experiences in high school classes. Examples could include working with scientists on research that could then be presented at fairs and symposiums, working with historians, mathematicians, engineers, and businessmen on real world projects, or having experts talk with students about applications for concepts and skills they are learning in the traditional classroom. The EITC funds are utilized for supplies, materials, and stipends for the field experts.
Community Support for Advanced Studies
Similar to the Artists in Residency Program, this program connects Penns Valley students with academic and industry experts in order to study academic concepts in greater depth than traditional experiences in high school classes. Examples could include working with scientists on research that could then be presented at fairs and symposiums, working with historians, mathematicians, engineers, and businessmen on real world projects, or having experts talk with students about applications for concepts and skills they are learning in the traditional classroom. The EITC funds are utilized for supplies, materials, and stipends for the field experts.
Maker Spaces
The Penns Valley Area School District is committed to creating a curriculum centered around science, technology, engineering, art, and math experiences for all students K-12. We have done so through our courses/activities, our spaces, resources, and our personnel. Specifically, we have dedicated a maker-space area at each of our elementary schools as well as dedicated science technology classrooms in our secondary school. The makerspaces at both levels contain legos, robots, building materials, breakout boxes, coding supplies, green screens and 3-D Printers as well as technology to record and present what the students are doing.
Attn: Treasurer
Penns Valley Education Foundation
4528 Penns Valley Road
Spring Mills, PA 16875
Endowments
Why not leave a legacy by starting an endowment to honor or memorialize a family member?
Endowed gifts to the Foundation are invested with the resulting earnings used to support a specific purpose. Endowments may be designated toward the Foundation’s General Endowment Fund or may be directed by the donor toward a specific purpose such as creating a scholarship or award.
Contact the foundation for more information about how you can support an existing endowment or establish a new one.
Existing Named Endowments
Missy Beamesderfer Memorial Fund
James A. Bradford Memorial Fund
Nicolas Castellano Memorial Fund
Richard Coursen Memorial Fund
Mary & Albert D’ Ambrosia Family Memorial Fund
Stephen & Carolyn Foust Scholarship Fund
Jeffrey Fuller Memorial Fund
Rita & Brian Griffith Scholarship Fund
George & Mildred Puff FFA Endowment
Cale Shaffer Memorial Fund
Robert Zeigler Memorial Fund
Roger Boop Memorial Fund
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Thank you all for your generous contribution toward our mission.
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