CCEF Announcing CCUSD 2011 Business Partners of the Year
Photo (Left to right): Marci Shulman – President CCEF, Sal Gonzalez – CC Volvo, Rita Zide – Roll n’ Rye, John Riordan – Riordan Plumbing, Richard Emery – Groundwork’s Landscape, Janet Chabola – Tower Insurance, Brian Besser – Verve, Janice Beighey – Tower Insurance, Patti Jaffe – CCUSD Superintendent, Katherine Beattie – K9 Connection, Susan Hancock – Royal T, Leslie Adler – CCEF Executive Director
The Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) held its annual gathering on November 1st to acknowledge the generosity of major donors to the Foundation ($1,000 and above) held at the delicious Akasha Restaurant. We had a fabulous turnout with over 75 business and community members attending. Thank you to City Manager John Nachbar, City Council members Vice Mayor Scott Malsin, Andrew Weissman, Jeffrey Cooper and School Board member Kathy Paspalis for attending. Superintendent Patti Jaffe thanked the attendees for all that they had contributed to the schools. She then acknowledged CCEF’s nine 2011 CCUSD Business Partners of the Year who were present and applauded their contributions to individual schools. The district as a whole benefits from the enrichment of its individual schools.
Traditionally, the Benefactors Breakfast is the occasion to kick off CCEF’s annual fundraising focus, which this year has been “All For 1” — The most ambitious fundraising campaign ever undertaken to benefit CCUSD. Eileen Carroll, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, described some of the academic support programs that would be funded by our donation. And 2010 Culver City High School graduate Shantenee Jones, who is now a sophomore at Cal Sate Northridge, spoke passionately about her positive experience at CCHS after she went into the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID); another program that will benefit from the “All for 1” donation to CCUSD. AVID focuses on the least served students in the academic middle, the first generation college-bound students. The program which raises expectations of students, accelerates student learning, and uses research-based methods of instruction, has an extremely high success rate.
