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Upcoming Events
Apple Appeal "Starlight Safari"
May 14, 2010
6:30pm
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE! Back by popular demand, the Foundation Board of Directors and Busch Gardens Tampa Bay are thrilled to announce the return of the Apple Appeal "Starlight Safari." This exciting expedition through the wilds of Africa will feature cocktails, dinner, a silent auction, and a safari adventure under the stars (equipped with night vision goggles!). RSVP deadline is May 7, spots will go fast so register today! Click here for more information.
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Tampa Bay Rays' Broadcast Auction
May 30, 2010
1:40pm
Tropicana Field
The Tampa Bay Rays invite you to tune into the Rays vs. White Sox game on Sunday, May 30 and help students all over the Tampa Bay area. For three hours during the game, the Rays will host a Broadcast Auction to support the Hillsborough and Pinellas Education Foundations. Starting at 1:40pm you will have the chance to bid on incredible packages. For more information on this exciting opportunity to support local schools, contact Cheryl Hedrick at (813) 231- 1937. |
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Good4U, Good4Us!
Disney on Ice Presents Let's Celebrate!
May 22, 2010
7pm
St. Pete Times Forum
Mickey and Minnie Mouse are coming to Tampa with 50 of their closest friends including Alice in Wonderland, the Disney Princesses, and Buzz Lightyear and Woody! Bring your family to this brand new show that features a variety of celebrations and blends contemporary music with your Disney favorites. Purchase tickets through the Education Discount and get lower level seats for $14.75 each. Proceeds benefit the Foundation, deadline to order is May 14. Click here for more information and to order tickets.
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Tampa Bay Storm Education Night
Friday, May 7, 2010
8pm
St. Pete Times Forum
Cheer on the Tampa Bay Storm as they take on the Jacksonville Sharks at Education Night on May 7! All tickets purchased through this promotion include access to an exclusive party with Storm Dog and Head Coach Tim Marcum! Tickets start at $6 for General Admission and go to $28 for the Channelside Club. Club seats include all you can eat and drink hot dogs, hamburgers, fried, soda, and water. A portion of all proceeds benefit the Foundation, deadline to order is May 7 at noon. Click here for the order form and more information. |
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April Success Story
Ahrecia
Student, Bowers/Whitley Career Center
As a high school student, I am very thankful for the donations that were given to our school from the Hillsborough Education Foundation.
Ever since I started coming to the Bowers/Whitley Career Center, I have learned so many new and different things that I never knew before. I am in the career program called Business and Multimedia Design. In this program I am learning not only business skills, but social and other work-related skills.
Not only am I learning new things to better myself and my future, but I also go home and teach new things to my mother, brother, and cousins. I feel real happy and excited when my mother calls me to help her with her new document or something that is related to my business career. She says that she is so proud of me for learning all these new things.
I have really improved and am looking forward to attending HCC when I graduate from Bowers/Whitley.
Click here to find out more about the program that helps students like Ahrecia realize their potential. |
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Note from the President
It's been said many times in many ways that educating our youth is a community's responsibility. We're blessed in this community that we have so many folks who actively give their time to help our students, teachers and schools. During Volunteer Appreciation Month, we want to give a "shout out" to the, literally, hundreds of volunteers who tutor students, mentor scholarship recipients, make Teaching Tools run smoothly, help with various events, serve in the Ambassador program, and sit on committees and the board every year.
It's heartening to see so many that are willing to give so much time - we're talking thousands and thousands of volunteer hours targeted to meaningful programs. We appreciate it!! |
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Foundation Spotlight
Larry Wilder
Wilder Architecture
 Jim Inman and I started the Hooked on Education Fishing Tournament 5 years ago as we thought it would be a fun way to support the Hillsborough Education Foundation. The Tournament allows us to help raise needed funds for the Foundation and as a bonus, have a great day of fishing. We both attended Hillsborough Public Schools and our kids are all products of the School District. We also have enjoyed designing and constructing local schools, so partnering with the Foundation was an obvious choice. At Wilder Architecture we feel it is important to give back to our community and the Tournament has been a successful way to help us accomplish this goal.
We organized the first one with the help of a great committee and within 60 days successfully held the first tournament which raised $48,500. The tournaments have always focused primarily on and relied on the support of members of the construction industry. Even in a down economy we are proud to say our sponsors came through once again this year enabling us to raise $75,000. In the past 5 years the Tournament has raised more than $400,000 total for the Foundation. We look forward to future tournaments and offer thanks to our many sponsors and committee members for their support. |
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Tampa Bay is Hooked on Education
The 2010 Hooked on Education Fishing Tournament, presented by Allstate Construction, Inc. and WILDERARCHITECTURE, INC., brought local subcontractors and constructions companies out for a day of fishing on Tampa Bay. Approximately 30 boats participated in this catch and release tournament that ended with a weigh-in and awards ceremony. Congratulations to the tournaments big winners!
Thanks to the dedication of the planning committee, sponsors, and fishermen and women, the tournament raised more than $83,600 for the Foundation.
Thank you to the 2010 sponsors!
Presenting Sponsors
Allstate Construction, Inc.
WILDERARCHITECTURE, INC.
Snook Sponsors
Anston-Greenlees, Inc. Aon Consulting
Trane
Redfish Sponsors
Batson-Cook Company
Carroll Air Systems, Inc.
Cox Fire Protection
Masonry Builders
Daikin McQuay
Merit Professional Coatings
Publix Super Markets Charities
Trout Sponsors
Advanced Drying Systems
Bard
Kenyon and Partners
King Koil
Kisinger Campo & Associates
Project One Systems
Simmons Co.
Dockside Sponsors
BECK
Applied Dehumidification, Inc.
Johnson Controls
Tournament co-founder Larry Wilder, Superintendent MaryEllen Elia, tournament co-founder Jim Inman, Foundation President Bill Hoffman, and Casey Weldon of Allstate Construction, Inc. during the check presentation at the 2010 Hooked on Education fishing tournament. |
A Conversation with Teaching Tools Volunteers
Sharon & Hal Hogan
If you were to visit the Teaching Tools Supply Store on a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon, you would meet Sharon and Hal Hogan. Sharon, a retired teacher, was already familiar with the program from her extensive career with the county's Title I schools. Before the program, Sharon and Hal were spending almost $1500 every year on supplies for her classroom. "When we'd buy things for my classroom, I'd slip them in with the grocery money," she recalls. Now Sharon values the time she is able to spend giving back to the program that helped her and her students so much. "Teaching Tools was here when I needed it when I was a teacher. So now I'm on the other side of the table and I'm giving back, and I think that's important. And it's even better because now my husband comes to volunteer."
As a teacher's husband, Hal has been involved in education for years, even though he never had a classroom of his own. Even without a personal connection to the field, he finds his time at the store equally rewarding. "I enjoy it tremendously," he says, "All the people that come here are always so happy, so grateful that it's available to them." Being retired, they know they can be picky with how they spend their time. And they make a point to only volunteer at places that make them happy. "If this wasn't fun," says Hal, "I wouldn't be doing it".
The store volunteers and shoppers enjoy having Sharon and Hal around just as much as they enjoy being there. The couple has become notorious for their collection of holiday hats. "People who come here have been working all day and they're physically drained," explains Sharon, "If we can make them smile, that helps. It's gotten to the point now where if there is a holiday when we don't wear hats, they ask why." Hal adds, "It's expected now, and I take great pride in that."
Click hereto find out more about how you can get involved in Teaching Tools for Hillsborough Schools. |
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Focus on an Americorps Volunteer
Ashley Wachter
SERVE, Americorps Volunteer
As an Americorps volunteer, Ashley Wachter has worked with the county's SERVE program for almost two years to improve literacy in our schools. When she started she knew she wanted to help the school district, so she took on the role of recruiting and training volunteers to serve as tutors to struggling readers in our county's schools. "I enjoy inspiring people to do good so we can strengthen our community," says Wachter.
In her work Ashley conducts three types of trainings, two of which are: for volunteer tutors to work with the Foundation's Hillsborough Reads literacy program, and for third and fourth grade students to serve as reading buddies for first- and second-graders. To inspire volunteer tutors, Ashley emphasizes what a big difference a little time and effort can make. By giving small amounts of their time, these tutors will help students make tremendous strides in their reading skills.
One of the most encouraging aspects of Ashley's role is her work with school children who will become tutors for their younger peers. "[This program] encourages 3rd and 4th graders to be role models to their younger fellow students. We train the students not to make fun of their buddy if they make a mistake when reading. So they are practicing their behavior skills, while practicing their reading."
To learn more about the Americorps program, Hillsborough Reads, and literacy in our schools, click here. |
Thank you to our March supporters!
AAA Auto Club South
Allegra Print & Imaging
Alliance Care
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Gamma Theta Omega Chapter
Braulio Alonso
Bank of America
Bard Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc.
Bayshore Technologies
BB&T
Beach Park Women's Club
The Beck Group
Beef 'O' Brady's
Lewis and Ileana Berger
CF Industries
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.
Children's Board Of Hillsborough County
Hill Ward Henderson Scholarship Fund within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Inc.
The Myrtle Phillips Baker Memorial Scholarship Fund within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
Marvin Jermone "Doc" Essrig Fund within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
Mayor's Scholarship Fund within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
Competitive Performance Systems, Inc.
Cox Fire Protection Inc.
D & S Electrical Technologies, LLC.
Adam D'Elia
Dittmer Architectural Aluminum
Driscoll's
Dwight Darby & Company, CPA's
Eckerd Family Foundation, Inc.
Energy Air, Inc.
Everest University
Florida Contract reSources
Luis and Mary Garcia
Garcia Family Foundation
Mary Gamble
GE Foundation
GFWC Woman's Club of Plant City
Go Partnership
GunnAllen Financial
Hill Ward Henderson
Karen Hodges
Bill and Deborah Hoffman
Holmes Hepner & Associates Architects, Inc.
Col. Joe and Sue House
IBM
Innovaro/UTEK
J. R. Long, Inc.
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Gordon Johnston
KePRO
Kinder Morgan Foundation
Kingswood Elementary School PTA
Kraft Construction Company
Kraft Construction Company
Joe & Ellouise Kuhn
Joseph A. and Carol W. Kurdell
Lab-Aids, Inc.
Level Line Interiors Inc.
Lexus of Tampa Bay
Little Red Wagon Foundation, Inc.
Lyle Engineering Group, Inc.
Jack and Lorrie Maniscalco
Masonry Builders, Inc.
Matern Professional Engineering, Inc.
Merit Professional Coatings, Inc.
Nielsen Media Research Global Technology & Information Ctr.
Norman J. Castellano, M.D., P.A.
Optimist Club of Tampa
John M. and Lily Pehling
Pepsi Bottling Group
Portable Golf Solutions
Progressive Insurance, Riverview
Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.
Public Education Network
Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc.
Ronald McDonald House
Fred & Mary Sue Rothenberg
Steve Sessums
Southern Equipment Corporation
Spectra Contact Flooring
Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union's Suncoast for Kids Foundation
St. Mary's Episcopal Day School
St. Petersburg Times
Staples/Corporate Express
Corey and Melissa Steadman
Carole P. Swinehart
Tampa Bay Lightning Foundation, Inc.
Tampa Bay Technology Forum
Tampa Kiwanis Foundation Inc.
Tampa Bay Trane
Tampa Convention Center
University of Florida Tampa Gator Club
USF College of Engineering
Upper Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce
VALIC
Verizon
Wachovia, A Wells Fargo Company
Waste Management of Tampa
Williams Co.
Carolyn Kaiser Wolfe
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In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists. ~ Eric Hoffer |
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Bill Hoffman
President
Hillsborough Education Foundation
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