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DALLAS — The Dallas Foundation for Excellence in Education’s 2015 Annual Fund Campaign seeks donations to continue to “fill the gaps” in educational funding, said Ray Ostroski, foundation president.
The foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization formed in 2011 to help meet the educational needs of the Dallas School District at a time when school budgets were cut, Ostroski said. Since its inception, the Dallas Foundation has provided the district with $180,000 for various educational materials and projects including:
• Scholarships;
• 20 iPads for the Dallas Middle School;
• 36 notebook computers for Dallas High School Algebra classrooms;
• 15 notebooks and 30 headsets for the Dallas Middle School science program;
• 61 iPads for kindergarten through second-grade reading programs;
• 12 iPads and cases for Wycallis kindergarten classes;
• 51 iPads and cases for Dallas Elementary first-grade classes;
• 27 elementary classrooms received Promethean boards; and
• A digital Dallas School District sign along Route 309.
Nearly 500 mailers were sent to various businesses and vendors in the Back Mountain and surrounding areas to solicit donations through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program, Ostroski said.
“We do not have a (pre-determined) financial goal to meet,” Ostroski said. “I would hope to raise between the $5,000 and $10,000 range.”
Donations can be submitted through PayPal at the Dallas Foundation website www.ourdallasfoundation.org or mailed to The Dallas Foundation, 261 Harris Hill Road, Shavertown, PA 18708.