Loudoun Education Foundation

[09/10/20]   Our Making a Difference Teacher Classroom Grant application is open! This year, we will be collecting applications virtually. The deadline for the Fall 2020 cycle is Tuesday, October 13th. For more information on how to apply and application criteria, visit our website here: https://buff.ly/3m4DWnj

Mark your calendar! The 4th Annual Pro-Am Loudoun Education Foundation Golf Classic is still planned for October 5, 2020, as originally scheduled. In light of COVID-19, we will take the following additional precautions for everyone’s safety. We are committed to making the Charity Golf Classic an exceptional experience for you, and this updated format will make this year’s Pro-Am memorable and unique. Follow this link to register https://buff.ly/3gMUUm8

LEF - Loudoun County Public Schools Backpack Coalition Program

THANK YOU Restoration Loudoun Floris United Methodist Church for providing 500 weekend meal bags this summer to the Backpack Coalition! We are feeding hungry kids together💕

Check out The New Ag School’s information for their July programming in the attached flyer. To learn more about their free classes, visit their website by following this link: https://buff.ly/2ZlInPS

Baba Yetu - A LCPS Virtual Choir Performance

Thank you for helping us empower students to make meaningful contributions. If you have time, please listen to the Middle in High School students throughout LCPS sing this beautiful rendition of Christopher Tin’s "Baba Yetu" published by LCPS on Monday!

Middle and high school choral music students from across Loudoun County Public Schools collaborated to perform Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu” as…

LEF - Loudoun County Public Schools Backpack Coalition Program

Thank you to team Ron Tinschert at Guaranteed Rate Affinity for sponsoring 560 meal bags! Your generous gift will provide 2,240 meals to LCPS students and their families. Together we are filling empty bellies and feeding growing minds! #growforgood #GRaffinity #LEFBackpackCoalition
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To donate- https://loudouneducationfoundation.org/backpack-coalition/

[05/12/20]   Thank you, 100WomenStrong, for granting us $5,000 towards our COVID-19 relief programs! We are grateful for your continued support of the Foundation.

Loudoun Education Foundation - GiveChoose

Just 6 hours remain for this year's GiveChoose! Please consider donating before 11:59 PM https://buff.ly/2L1nqCX thank you to all who have contributed to today's Day of Giving!

givechoose.org The Loudoun Education Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that engages our community to invest in critical and innovative programs to foster the academic success and well-being of students and teachers in Loudoun County Public Schools. Our vision is to make Loudoun County Public Schools the best pub...

9 more hours left of Give Choose day! Thank you to those who have already donated towards our COVID relief programs. If you would like to donate or learn more about these programs, follow this link: https://buff.ly/2SCj6OI

Loudoun Education Foundation - GiveChoose

We have received our first donation for Give Choose day! Please join and help support COVID-19 relief in Loudoun County Public Schools:

givechoose.org The Loudoun Education Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that engages our community to invest in critical and innovative programs to foster the academic success and well-being of students and teachers in Loudoun County Public Schools. Our vision is to make Loudoun County Public Schools the best pub...

The 2020 Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties Give Choose day is here! Money raised will go towards our Backpack Coalition and our School Supply Kit program. Follow this link to learn more and donate: https://buff.ly/2Yz3Q9i

[05/04/20]   Did you know we extended the deadline of our Spring Teacher Grants in support of distance learning? Follow this link to learn more about this special extension: https://buff.ly/3b32QwK. Applications are due Friday, May 15th!

Wishing our teachers a happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to your students every day. Your leadership and commitment is extremely appreciated and has not gone unnoticed!

[05/01/20]   Thank you Amazon Web Services for supporting Backpack Coalition and helping feed our food-insecure students and families in Loudoun County Public Schools!

[04/30/20]   Thank you Amazon Web Services for helping over 100 students at our Title I schools get School Supply Kits filled with the supplies they need to help them complete their schoolwork at home!

Please consider donating to our LEF-LCPS Backpack Coalition! Just $5 can help feed a family for two days. You can donate through this post or by visiting our website: www.loudouneducationfoundation.org/donate

***Today is $5 Friday***
Just $5 buys a meal bag!
Please DONATE by going to the link below, and SHARE!
https://loudouneducationfoundation.org/backpack-coalition/

Loudoun Education Foundation - GiveChoose

Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties Day of Giving is just 2 weeks away, but early giving begins today! Follow this link to learn more about the LEF and to donate towards programs and support areas such as our Backpack Coalition and School Supply Kits! https://buff.ly/2xNcV3h

givechoose.org The Loudoun Education Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that engages our community to invest in critical and innovative programs to foster the academic success and well-being of students and teachers in Loudoun County Public Schools. Our vision is to make Loudoun County Public Schools the best pub...

[04/16/20]   Thank you to the Frederickson Family Impact Fund for their donation to cover 1,000 meal bags to the LEF - Loudoun County Public Schools Backpack Coalition Program. We are extremely grateful for this generous donation!

LCPS Calming Sessions — A Place to Be

Thank you to A Place To Be for providing a telehealth opportunity for 175 students in LCPS who are struggling with the pandemic. Follow the link below to learn more Visit their Facebook for more free sessions for students and parents at https://buff.ly/2z0ve5m

aplacetobeva.org While we wish we could assist every family dealing with these very challenging times, we have only secured funding for assisting approximately 150 students through this 8-week program. Placements will be made on a first-come, first-served basis, for those who qualify.

Our LEF - Loudoun County Public Schools Backpack Coalition Program continues to feed hundreds of our food-insecure families in LCPS. Please consider donating to this cause through the LEF here https://buff.ly/2JvaNQ7 and be sure to designate it to the Backpack Coalition!

AWS Library Project at Countryside Elementary School

Thank you to Amazon Web Services for funding the AWS Library Project at Countryside
Elementary. Staff and volunteers helped to shelve over 1,400 books in Countryside Elementary's library. Check out this video to learn more about Amazon Web Services' generous contribution! #awsincommunities

Our Teacher Classroom Grant application closes in two weeks! Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity for your classroom. Follow this link to learn how to submit your application: https://buff.ly/2H9IR2J

Thank you, SAIC for your support of the Academies of Loudoun Hackathon! We are grateful for your partnership and dedication to inspiring our students.

This morning we traveled to Moorefield Station Elementary School to see what students K-5 have been learning through Code to the Future at their 2nd Epic Build of the year. We are so proud of all of their hard work and ability to teach those around them about what they've learned through coding!

We delivered our final Janelia Research Campus Makerspace Grant to Frederick Douglass Elementary School this morning! To learn more about these grants, follow this link: https://buff.ly/37RCSer. Thank you again to HHMI Janelia for your continued support in Loudoun County Public Schools!

Today, the Loudoun Education Foundation along with HHMI Janelia Research Campus traveled to Rolling Ridge Elementary School, Guilford Elementary, and Sterling Middle School VA to present each of them with $2K checks from HHMI Janelia to go towards Makerspaces in their schools! Thank you, HHMI Janelia, for supporting Loudoun County Public Schools!

[01/08/20]   Check out the first LEF Newsletter of 2020: https://buff.ly/36B8RPJ If you would like to subscribe to our monthly newsletter, sign up through the following link: https://buff.ly/2Qz9PGx

[01/07/20]   Our Spring 2020 Teacher Classroom Grants are now open! You can find the application along with instructions on how to submit the grant by following this link: https://buff.ly/37NKRZN Applications are due on Friday, February 21st. Please send any questions to Linda Russ at [email protected]

The LEF office will be closed beginning today, December 31st at 12 P.M. and will reopen on January 2nd. We hope everyone has a safe and happy new year and we can't wait to see what 2020 has in store!

[12/23/19]   LEF Staff will be out of the office until Thursday, December 26. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions and we will get back to you as soon as possible!

The Loudoun Education Foundation has announced this year's winner of the Willowcroft World Language Fluency Scholarship which supports a Loudoun County Public Schools high school student in achieving fluency in a modern language and to award that student’s world language instructor a grant for teaching and mentoring the student. This year’s winner of the scholarship is Avery Donmoyer from Loudoun Valley High School. The scholarship for $8,000 will assist with costs associated with the application, registration, and participation in the CIEE Spanish Language Intensive in Alicante, Spain over the summer of 2020.

Yesterday at LVHS, we presented Ms. Erin Boldin a Willowcroft World Language Teacher Grant from Lew & Sharon Parker. Ms. Boldin was selected for this grant based on a nomination from the Willowcroft scholarship award winner, Avery Donmoyer. Congrats to Ms. Boldin and Avery!

This morning, the Backpack Buddies Foundation of Loudoun Inc. presented us with a $25,000 grant to sponsor Sully Elementary School through our LEF - Loudoun County Public Schools Backpack Coalition Program. Thank you so much for your generous gift to support our students and their families with weekend meals. We are grateful for your continued partnership!

On Monday we held our Annual Pro-AM Golf Classic at Creighton Farms where we raised a record of $128,000! Thank you to all who participated and donated to this amazing event.

This years winners include:
First Place: Cisco's Team: Stu Fedderson, Vince Scheivert, Mark Tashiro, and Jeff Long
Second Place: The Sigmon family Investments' Team: Dean Sigmon, Chad Sigmon, Peter Fulcer, and Robert Blumer Jr.
Third Place: The Virts-Miller Family Foundation's team: Hunter Stone, Corbin Brown, Justin Wooldridge, and Conley Bartlet

The longest-drive competition winner was Barry Conti
The closest to the hole competition winners were Danny McKenzie for men and Brooke Wenger for women!

Make sure to mark your calendars for October 5th, 2020 for next year's LEF Annual Pro-AM Golf Classic!

Raising funds to support our students and teachers in LCPS at the LEF Golf Classic! Thank you to all the players.

LEF at Segra Field cheering for Loudoun United!