With the blink of an eye, summer break is in sight! As we start to wrap up the academic year, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for the generosity you’ve shown our school district through your year-to-date giving of $1.5M to LCFEF. We appreciate you, but still need your help!
In recent months, I have seen this community come together and do incredible things for each other, including donating over $450,000 to district teachers and staff that suffered unimaginable loss due to the Eaton Fire and, at our Spring Gala, raising paddle after paddle to support a one time 0.5% off schedule pay increase for our amazing teachers and staff. Your munificence makes my heart swell.
Whenever we call on you to support our shared mission, you always rise to the occasion. Today, we ask for your support once more. As you're aware, the state budget crisis has created significant financial challenges for the district. Like many neighboring districts facing similar hardships, LCUSD has been forced to make tough decisions in order to reduce costs. Among these decisions, the district will not be filling the 6 FTEs that are retiring, elementary class sizes will increase slightly, and the elementary Spanish program will be eliminated. Despite these efforts, we still face a financial gap. Unfortunately, the state isn’t coming to our aid, so it’s up to us to take responsibility and bridge this gap for the upcoming year.
We have two months left to achieve our goal of raising $2.5M to support LCUSD during this critical time and maintain the standards we have set as a high performing district. Your end-of-year donation, no matter the amount, will make a difference in enriching our students’ educational journey and our community as a whole. To give, please pay with the remittance below and mail it to the LCFEF office at 4490 Cornishon Ave, Room 211, La Cañada, or call (818) 952-4268. You can also visit https://lcfef.org/ to donate online.
Together we will ensure the district continues to provide a world class education that is robust, rigorous and individualized to each student’s specific needs. On behalf of all the dedicated volunteers and hardworking administrative staff at LCFEF, thank you.
Kind regards,
Kate Walters
2024-2025 LCFEF President
With the blink of an eye, summer break is in sight! As we start to wrap up the academic year, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for the generosity you’ve shown our school district through your year-to-date giving of $1.5M to LCFEF. We appreciate you, but still need your help!
In recent months, I have seen this community come together and do incredible things for each other, including donating over $450,000 to district teachers and staff that suffered unimaginable loss due to the Eaton Fire and, at our Spring Gala, raising paddle after paddle to support a one time 0.5% off schedule pay increase for our amazing teachers and staff. Your munificence makes my heart swell.
Whenever we call on you to support our shared mission, you always rise to the occasion. Today, we ask for your support once more. As you're aware, the state budget crisis has created significant financial challenges for the district. Like many neighboring districts facing similar hardships, LCUSD has been forced to make tough decisions in order to reduce costs. Among these decisions, the district will not be filling the 6 FTEs that are retiring, elementary class sizes will increase slightly, and the elementary Spanish program will be eliminated. Despite these efforts, we still face a financial gap. Unfortunately, the state isn’t coming to our aid, so it’s up to us to take responsibility and bridge this gap for the upcoming year.
We have two months left to achieve our goal of raising $2.5M to support LCUSD during this critical time and maintain the standards we have set as a high performing district. Your end-of-year donation, no matter the amount, will make a difference in enriching our students’ educational journey and our community as a whole. To give, please pay with the remittance below and mail it to the LCFEF office at 4490 Cornishon Ave, Room 211, La Cañada, or call (818) 952-4268. You can also visit https://lcfef.org/ to donate online.
Together we will ensure the district continues to provide a world class education that is robust, rigorous and individualized to each student’s specific needs. On behalf of all the dedicated volunteers and hardworking administrative staff at LCFEF, thank you.
Kind regards,
Kate Walters
2024-2025 LCFEF President
With the blink of an eye, summer break is in sight! As we start to wrap up the academic year, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for the generosity you’ve shown our school district through your year-to-date giving of $1.5M to LCFEF. We appreciate you, but still need your help!
In recent months, I have seen this community come together and do incredible things for each other, including donating over $450,000 to district teachers and staff that suffered unimaginable loss due to the Eaton Fire and, at our Spring Gala, raising paddle after paddle to support a one time 0.5% off schedule pay increase for our amazing teachers and staff. Your munificence makes my heart swell.
Whenever we call on you to support our shared mission, you always rise to the occasion. Today, we ask for your support once more. As you're aware, the state budget crisis has created significant financial challenges for the district. Like many neighboring districts facing similar hardships, LCUSD has been forced to make tough decisions in order to reduce costs. Among these decisions, the district will not be filling the 6 FTEs that are retiring, elementary class sizes will increase slightly, and the elementary Spanish program will be eliminated. Despite these efforts, we still face a financial gap. Unfortunately, the state isn’t coming to our aid, so it’s up to us to take responsibility and bridge this gap for the upcoming year.
We have two months left to achieve our goal of raising $2.5M to support LCUSD during this critical time and maintain the standards we have set as a high performing district. Your end-of-year donation, no matter the amount, will make a difference in enriching our students’ educational journey and our community as a whole. To give, please pay with the remittance below and mail it to the LCFEF office at 4490 Cornishon Ave, Room 211, La Cañada, or call (818) 952-4268. You can also visit https://lcfef.org/ to donate online.
Together we will ensure the district continues to provide a world class education that is robust, rigorous and individualized to each student’s specific needs. On behalf of all the dedicated volunteers and hardworking administrative staff at LCFEF, thank you.
Kind regards,
Kate Walters
2024-2025 LCFEF President
Announcements & Upcoming
Bridging The Gap
Left By State Budget Cuts
With the blink of an eye, summer break is in sight! As we start to wrap up the academic year, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for the generosity you’ve shown our school district through your year-to-date giving of $1.5M to LCFEF. We appreciate you, but still need your help!
In recent months, I have seen this community come together and do incredible things for each other, including donating over $450,000 to district teachers and staff that suffered unimaginable loss due to the Eaton Fire and, at our Spring Gala, raising paddle after paddle to support a one time 0.5% off schedule pay increase for our amazing teachers and staff. Your munificence makes my heart swell.
Whenever we call on you to support our shared mission, you always rise to the occasion. Today, we ask for your support once more. As you're aware, the state budget crisis has created significant financial challenges for the district. Like many neighboring districts facing similar hardships, LCUSD has been forced to make tough decisions in order to reduce costs. Among these decisions, the district will not be filling the 6 FTEs that are retiring, elementary class sizes will increase slightly, and the elementary Spanish program will be eliminated. Despite these efforts, we still face a financial gap. Unfortunately, the state isn’t coming to our aid, so it’s up to us to take responsibility and bridge this gap for the upcoming year.
We have two months left to achieve our goal of raising $2.5M to support LCUSD during this critical time and maintain the standards we have set as a high performing district. Your end-of-year donation, no matter the amount, will make a difference in enriching our students’ educational journey and our community as a whole. To give, please pay with the remittance below and mail it to the LCFEF office at 4490 Cornishon Ave, Room 211, La Cañada, or call (818) 952-4268. You can also visit https://lcfef.org/ to donate online.
Together we will ensure the district continues to provide a world class education that is robust, rigorous and individualized to each student’s specific needs. On behalf of all the dedicated volunteers and hardworking administrative staff at LCFEF, thank you.
Kind regards,
Kate Walters
2024-25 President
La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation (LCFEF)
ABOUT THE ENDOWMENT
The LCFEF Endowment Fund helps keep the schools financially secure during times of financial difficulty.
During the U.S. fiscal crisis of 2008/09, donations to the Educational Foundation dropped at the same time that public school funding from the State of California decreased. To help, the Endowment Fund gifted the maximum allowed by its bylaws and even revised its bylaws to ensure that it could still make a gift, despite the decrease in the Endowment's assets.
During less critical times, the Endowment fund may not make the maximum allowable gift in order to grow its assets and plan for the future.
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