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Power elite of school technology fundraisers
to gather in San Diego, April 29-30
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Washington, D.C. , March 11, 1999-- The nation's most
successful school fundraisers-educators are coming together
next month in San Diego. Based on past attendance,
the individuals who will make up this elite group have each
raised an average of $3.6 million for school technology and
are going for $7 million. The occasion for the get-together is
the Grants & Funding for School Technology (G&F) conference
held April 29-30, (http://www.eschoolnews.org/conf/g-f.html)
This conference is presented by eSchool News, the nation's
only school technology newspaper, and co-sponsored by Teacher
Universe.
Some of the nation's most effective school fundraisers will be
gathering at San Diego's Wyndham Emerald Plaza Hotel in April to
swap strategies, mingle with leading grants givers, and learn
how to raise even more money for their schools' technology
programs. Based on a study of educators who have
attended a G&F conference, the audience as a whole will
already have succeeded in raising a total of $7 billion for
their schools.
Roughly a fourth of all attendees individually have
raised a lifetime amount of between $2 million and $10
million.
What these numbers show, according to Gregg W. Downey,
editor and publisher of eSchool News and one of the organizers
of the conference, is that school technology leaders who
come to the event are a powerful group looking to take their
fundraising efforts to an even higher level.
"They've done what they can with the resources at hand,"
Downey said, "and it's significant. Now it's time to bring
their skills-and their fundraising potential-to the
next level."
"But not all school leaders know how to do that," Downey
added, "which is where we come in."
It's in the network
The next step, Downey said, is to for these fundraisers to
meet face-to-face with key players among corporate givers
and foundations and to network with other successful fundraisers.
"They've got to get out there and meet the people who can
make it happen-the grantsmakers themselves, and other
successful school leaders," Downey said. "And those are
exactly the kind of speakers and attendees who will be at
our conference."
That's why next month's G&F conference will feature school
leaders who have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for
infrastructure, teacher training, and school networking
projects.
Some of those school fundraising superstars who will be
sharing their know-how include:
* Dr. Gary Carnow, who has raised over $30 million in grants.
Dr. Carnow, a former teacher, is the director of technology and
information services for the Alhambra, Calif., School District
and the moderator of Scholastic Network's Grant Center.
* Peggy Meathenia, from the Lufkin, Texas, Independent School
District, who raised more than $14 million for school technology
in five years. While at a smaller school district in east Texas,
she was able to take a $25,000 distance learning grant and parlay
it into a $7 million project.
* Dr. Michael V. Gershowitz, who has written 150 winning
proposals totaling $80 million, including 28 federal and
state distance learning grants, 22 of which were funded. He
also wrote one of the 19 Technology Innovation Challenge Grants
that were funded in 1997, out of a field of 679 applications.
* Phillip Hibbert, the first African-American and the youngest
person appointed to serve as Assistant Superintendent in the Cobb
County, Ga., School District, credited with designing and building
one of the largest educational networks of its kind-the Cobb
Educational Network-funded at $40 million.
* Dr. Sandra Becker, whose district's record of its technology
implementation is included in the 1999 Permanent Research
Collection of the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Innovation Web site.
Conference attendees will also be able to network with key
grantsgivers in government programs and corporate foundations:
*Mike Haney from the National Science Foundation and Cheryl
Garnette from the U.S. Department of Education will present
sessions on federal funding initiatives-and what their departments
will be looking for in grant applications-for the coming school
year.
*Marilyn Reznick of The AT&T Foundation, C.J. Van Pelt from
Cisco Systems Foundation, and Michele Cavataio from The AOL
Foundation will discuss the burgeoning arena of working with
corporate partners to fund school technology initiatives.
Conference attendees will also hear from JDL Technologies'
Allen Schmeider, vice president for K-12WORLD programs, who will
be presenting a session on how to land major federal technology
funds. Dr. Schmeider played a key role in the implementation of
the Technology Innovation Challenge Grants and the Technology
Literacy Challenge Fund, and served as the Technology Director
for the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
The conference receives support from Innovative
Communications Inc., America Online, Sphere Communications,
Inc., and 3Com, which is sponsoring the General Session on
the eRate.
eSchool News, producer of the 2-day event, reports each month
on major news and events related to school technology and the
internet. The national newspaper based in Bethesda, Md., outside
the nation's capital, is read by more than 120,000 K-12 school
administrators. For additional information on attending Grants
& Funding for School Technology, please contact eSchool News at:
- conference hotline: (800) 394-0115 x119
- fax: (301) 913-0119
- eMail: eve...@eschoolnews.org
- write: eSchool News, 7920 Norfolk Ave., #900,
Bethesda MD 20814
- visit http://www.eschoolnews.org/conf/g-f.html
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