The Windsor Educational Foundation holds its regularly scheduled meetings the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM. During the school year, we meet on the WHS campus in the Career Center . During July and August, we usually meet at the Windsor Round Table. All interested individuals or groups are welcome to attend.
If you would like additional information about the Foundation, our fundraising efforts, or are interested in volunteering, please contact us at the address, phone, fax, or email listed below.
PO Box 2217
Windsor , CA 95492
Phone: 707-837-7767 x 432
Fax: 707-431-1538
Email: WEFinquiry@aol.com
The Windsor Educational Foundation is a volunteer-based, registered, California non-profit corporation. The Foundation assists in providing funding for various programs and projects related to musical performance and appreciation, the visual and performing arts, instructional enrichment projects, and student athletics.
The primary purposes of the Foundation are to create, organize and promote fundraising efforts throughout the year. We invite you to participate in one or all of our annual events – including the Equinox Evening Gala Event held each fall and the Parent's Night Out Dance featuring live music and dancing provided by local band The Fits of Passion. We also encourage general donations via an annual funding drive, and participation of district personnel by asking them to designate their United Way contributions to the WEF.
$0.97 of each dollar raised by the Foundation goes directly to the seven school sites within our district. All of the Foundation funding allocated is distributed on a per-site/per-capita basis, using district enrollment figures. Our grant application process is open to all district employees, and we work in conjunction with each school's Site Council, Leadership Team, or Governing Council to help ensure priority use of the disbursed funds.
Music
Along with its effect on brain development, music teaches many important life skills such as concentration, cooperation and working within a group. From the elementary ‘song flute' program through middle and high school band concerts and recital's, the WEF continues to support the development of music programs throughout the district.
The Arts
As each student progresses through the grades, we understand that it is of paramount importance to ensure opportunities exist for experimentation, expression and education in all facets of the arts - whether they be in the visual, performing, interpretive and / or literary realms. The Foundation has always been a staunch supporter of all areas of artistic development and education.
Sports
The many benefits of athletic activity for our children are indisputable; teamwork, personal fitness and health, overall well being - just to mention a few. The WEF assists in the funding of various sport related endeavors with Windsor schools.
Academic Enrichment
Every child has a special talent or interest that needs to be nurtured...it could incorporate music, art or sports...but it could also revolve around math, science, history, language, technology, or business. The WEF believes and unwaveringly supports the individual potential of every student, and therefore works to allocate funding toward many different elements of education here in Windsor .
Since the fall of 2001, the WEF has allocated over $260,000 in funding to the seven school sites within the Windsor district
Mattie Washburn Elementary School
Playground stencils & games, PA equipment,
storyteller, C/D players for classrooms, duplication machine
Windsor Creek Elementary School
Arts Day, Percussion Discussion, music and
dance performances, assemblies
Brooks Elementary School
Arts Day, Song Flute program, Oregon Shakespeare Company Drama performances
Cali Calmécac Charter School
After school sports, robotics elective, after school theater program, after school quilting club, field trips, soccer and basketball uniforms, art supplies for art classes, folkloric dance class
Windsor Middle School
After school Robotics class, math enrichment program, Safe Schools Ambassador Program, Web design software and licensing, musical instruments and program support, after school sports programs, art reproductions, ropes course, Odyssey of the Mind competition, cultural assemblies
Windsor High School
Musical performances, Music program support, laptop and chairs for Performing Arts Theater, LCD units, Environmental Studies garden project, wrestling mats, Every 15 Minutes Program
Windsor Oaks Academy
Academy t-shirt design and production project, field trip funding
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