Culver City Education Foundation

We are LIVE!!

crichardson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:40:21 +0000

Please follow the link to our online auction that is now LIVE. We will be online until May 9th, and then the silent auction will continue at our Gala Event, Tribute to the Stars, Friday May 11th at Sony Picture Studios.

Lots of

Restaurants, movies, clothing, hotel stays, activities,

jewelry, stuff for your car, your bike, your house, your lifestyle, and even Dr. Phil.

What the heck are you thinking? Follow the link, get

yourself something nice, and contribute to a great cause.

http://www.bid di ngforgood.com/cceftribute

Tribute to the Stars May 11, 2012 – Awards Ceremony is at Capacity – Join us for the Street Party

crichardson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:57:35 +0000

As of today, May 3, 2012, the awards ceremony in the theater is at capacity.

**Please join us for the STREET PARTY on the famous**

Sony Studios Main Street that starts at 8:00 pm.

Street party price is $120.00 for individuals and $75.00 for CCUSD employees which includes food, music, dancing, entertainment and silent auction.

Please do not arrive before 7:30, you will not be able to check in before that time.

Culver City Education Foundation and Culver City Unified School District present the 14th Annual Tribute to the Stars Friday, May 11, 2012 at 6:00 PM at the exciting Sony Pictures Studios. Please join us in honoring the “Stars” of the Culver City School District.

(invitation link below)

Culver City Education Foundation is proud to announce our

2012 Tribute to the Stars award winners

Sony Pictures Entertainment Teacher of the Year

Culver City Middle School – Kari Fretham

Rotary Club of Culver City Classified Employee of the Year

Anissa McCullen

LA Urban Homes / CCUSD Superintendent’s Award

The Fineshriber Family Foundation

Playa Vista / CCEF Presidents Award

Cathy Hession – The Carol and James Collins Foundation

Sees’s Candies Volunteers of the Year

El Marino Alisha Martin

El Rincon Steve Zee

Farragut James Sparling

La Ballona Nancy Richards-Chand and Mohi Chand

Linwood Howe Ronni Kass

Middle School Allison Brush

High School Steven Stautzenbach

Culver Park High Margaret Fujisawa

Adult School Ronald Reuben

Office of Child Development Josette Trux

Click on URL below to view Invitation and Register

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=hzmzi6cab&v=001e4MTcRpscGp5wSuOhZ6rbAul6puBXZqxLNov4shUjxf09GUSHziraVv1Gp0LovdeIeofIePI-JvazCU84hAH40TOQPgfusDFraQVjdtJE_MSMHdMPgvfN_5ynkkO_zESMHxDtoTAWBQF_XGIpaFoI9wnmnPYYcauUxtpjDeWYlAVl_5HMioWh8FvjvN0N_k-gLvC_eskY0Bpv4Ho5CyhVG4bhoImwZJX4Pg9evrcyHshcK-EhsLT3So-dGINSpju

CCEF’s Annual Benefactors Breakfast

dobrien — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:24:36 +0000

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 1^st 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.

It was a Delectable Time at Sip for Our Schools

dobrien — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:14:32 +0000

A delectable time was had by all at the Culver City Education Foundation’s (CCEF) 3^rd Annual “Sip for Our Schools” held Saturday October 15^th ^. A big thank you to our hosts Zoltan Pali and Judith Fekete of SPF: a Gallery and everyone who came to enjoy the beautiful space, complete with colorful photographs on the walls, delicious tastes of wine, beer and food and the magnificent sounds of the AVPA Jazz Combo. Thank you also goes out to Sorrento’s Italian Market for donating the wonderful assortment of wine, City Tavern for the delicious craft beers, soon-to-open restaurant Batch for the savory appetizers and Golden Desserts for the delicious sweets.

It was a wonderful “Friend Raiser” to kick off the new school year and CCEF’s continuing efforts to support the Culver City Schools!

Annual Benefactor’s Breakfast

Kevin Halfhill — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:54:02 +0000

On Tuesday October 19^th we held CCEF’s annual thank you event for major donors held at the delicious Akasha Restaurant. We had a fabulous turnout with over 65 business and community members attending. Thank you to City Manager John Nachbar, City Council members Vice Mayor Mehaul O’Leary, Scott Malsin, Andrew Weissman, Jeffrey Cooper and School Board Vice President Scott Zeidman for attending. Interim Superintendent Patti Jaffe thanked the attendees for all that they had contributed to the schools. She then presented CCEF’s 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 focus for the year, which this year is nutrition education and building gardens in our elementary schools. Peggy Curry and Sarah Gelb from the non-profit GrowingGreat made an informal presentation. As of now, all but one of our elementary schools has the nutritional education program started and 3 out of the 5 elementary schools have gardens. Our goal is to have nutritional education for 3^rd through 5^th grades and to have working gardens in all the elementary schools for K through 5^th grade students to cultivate and harvest. Vegetable gardens promote an awareness of good nutrition and the variety of good foods to eat, making the nutrition education more appealing and effective.