The Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation is the featured charity this week on the popular local group coupon site “Sharing Spree Seattle”!  We receive 10% of each coupon purchased this week and we’ll get an extra 5% if the purchaser has chosen us as their designated charitable organization!  If you’ve never heard of Sharing Spree before, here’s a link to their website.

Of course, there are loads of other ways you can support us too.  Our annual Phonathon kicks off next Monday evening.  For two nights, local high school students will be calling homes in the district asking for donations to support our classroom grants programs. Last year, we received over $50,000 worth of funding requests from teachers and school groups around the district and were able to fund about $15,000 worth.  Answer the call! Help support every student, in every classroom, in every school across our district and make a donation during our Phonathon.

Thank you!

The Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation is partnering with Sharing Spree to raise more money for students in our schools!

Sharing Spree is a local group coupon site that sends daily emails highlighting discounts at local businesses. If you see a deal you like, you buy it.  It’s that simple.  But it gets better.  Sharing Spree will donate a percentage of your purchase back to a local non-profit (like SVSF!).  If you select Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation as your preferred charity, we’ll get 5% of your purchases and if you buy a deal during a week when we are the featured group, we’ll get 10%!  Easy, and painless.

If you’d like to help, sign up for a Sharing Spree account using the link below.

http://sharingspree.com/Registration?nid=a985cd2c-8f63-4d0e-821f-c93e0cf46dd2

Supporters that are already shopping on Sharing Spree can login; go to “My Account” then “My Profile” to update their nonprofit selection to the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation.

Go ahead…sign up.  I’ll wait here.

Done?  Thanks!  Now tell two friends and we’ll really get the ball rolling!  (While you’re at it, like our Facebook page too! http://www.facebook.com/svsfoundation.org)

Good luck to all SVSD Staff and Students as they start their school year!

As you reflect on all you have done this year, we’d like to share how your generous donation to the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation has been used to excite students about learning.

Every day we are inspired by the proud smiles on the faces of our students when they show off something they’ve learned in school.
Here’s a note from one of the great teachers in our Snoqualmie Valley
schools:

As I was walking about my science classroom observing the students work on a car and ramp lesson, I heard one student exclaim something every science teacher loves to hear. “Oh, I get it! Look! As you raise the ramp higher, the speed of the car goes up.” This was a concept I had been trying to get across to the students without much success. Finally, when I used the basic physics equipment purchased through a grant from the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation, I hit pay dirt. The grant provided me with hands-on equipment that helps all learning styles. The equipment is simple enough, and yet technologically advanced to what I usually use, that they provided all students with the sense of accomplishment. By using the cars, ramps, and high-tech electronic gates, learning was taking place within my classroom!

David Cruz, Ed.D. / Science, Snoqualmie Middle School

With the help of donors like you the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation has been able to impact thousands of valley students whose learning environments have been enriched by beneficial and meaningful opportunities. Thank you for your past and future support Assuring Opportunity and Encouraging Excellence for the students of the Snoqualmie Valley. Experiences dictate the outcome of individuals; the Foundation Grants make student learning experiences richer and more meaningful.

To nurture exceptional schools we must continue to excite children in the classroom, in arts practice, on the field, or in the library. We need to work together with parents, business and community leaders to demonstrate to our children that education is worth the investment of time and money.