2017 Report to Community “Where Was This When I Needed It in Grade One?”

educationmatters 2017 Report to Community “Where was this when I needed it in grade one?”

Grade three student at William Reid School while learning to use math manipulatives to better understand subtraction

Board of Governors Message from Board Chair & Executive Director Mike Shaikh, Chair Nancy Close, Vice Chair Mark E. Saar, Treasurer David McKinnon, Secretary Dr. Liana Appelt Steve Aubin Dr. Aleem Bharwani Joy Bowen-Eyre Martin Cej Lisa Davis Dr. Gene Edworthy Lynn Ferguson Amanda Field Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs” into classrooms, providing tools to assist Gregory Francis lays out a basic set of conditions for each with written and mathematical literacy, Richard Hehr of us to live happy, healthy, and fulfilled and creating opportunities to build Hanif Ladha lives. At EducationMatters, we work with career and life skills, you are ensuring Dr. Richard Sigurdson the community in Calgary to meet our that students across our city are getting Dr. Charles Webber students’ needs and empower them with the most from their education. enriched educational opportunities. Honourary Ambassadors In fifteen years, we have come to realize Your gifts support students’ physical that education works best when students Joanne Cuthbertson needs by providing nutritious meals to are excited to learn, are able to experi- David Pickersgill those who would otherwise arrive to ence success, and can plan for a future Contact Us class hungry. Community partners, like of their own design. Your investment WP Puppet Theatre’s “View from the is delivering important returns in the 403-817-7468 Inside” program, support psychological community by allowing students in each [email protected] needs by encouraging discussions quadrant of our city to build a future and 1221 8 Street SW about mental wellness. And, the awards find meaningful employment. Calgary, AB T2R 0L4 you create meet students’ need for fulfillment, recognizing accomplishments Bringing out the best in our youth is a EducationMatters.ca and allowing students to realize their full priority shared by all of us and we thank potential. you for your investment and vision. Your Charitable Registration: support is the resource that is fuelling #898887005RR0001 With over 120,000 students in the the future for our students and for our Calgary Board of Education, it is difficult community. Staff to express all of the opportunities you Marilyn Field make possible. By integrating technology Sincerely, Monica Bryan Michele Chiasson-Suart Samuel Fordham Christopher Huestis Evelyn Martinez Kathryn Schilman Hanna Clark Samatar Jama Mike Shaikh Marilyn Field Chair, Board of Governors Executive Director By the Numbers

In 2017 we distributed almost $1 million to 54 schools. This includes $217,695 to transform libraries into learning commons and build maker spaces in ten schools; and $315,248 for dual credit and exploratory career programs.

Gifts by Type Grants by Distribution Gifts by Fund Type (gross) (net)

$1, 622, 926 $896, 129 $1, 168, 600 Flow Through Specific Initiatives Specific Initiatives $184, 926 $474, 279 $554, 477 In 2017: Endowment Student Awards Student Awards $100, 782 $42, 746 Other Grants Other Grants 276 Since 2003 Student awards claimed almost granted over endowments over from $100-$25,000 $17 $12 $5 million in gifts million for students million

54 Endowment Fund Market Value Schools received funding $6

$ million $1.47 millions 5.2 million As of year-end 2017 Distributed to support $0 Calgary’s students 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

To view our 2017 audited financial statements please visit educationmatters.ca 2017 Program Grants - Helping Students Across Our City

Northeast John G. Diefenbaker High School: Southwest Alex Munro School: Debate Program $660 Braeside School: Memorial brick/plaque $343 Kenneth D. Taylor School: Communication, Sensory and Social Library to Learning Commons $33,000 The Heartbeat of our Community: Interaction (CSSI) $10,000 Annie Foote School: Indigenous Drumming $5,000 Chinook Park School: Music Program $5,000 Louise Dean School: Transformation and Revitalization - Redesigning the Belfast School: Baby Tales $950 Library to a Learning Commons $5,000 Library to Learning Commons $4,695 Queen Elizabeth High School: Connaught School: Catherine Nichols Gunn School: Athletics Program $70 Connaught Community Learning Sanctuary (CCLS) $2,345 Indigenous Artist in Residence $2,566 Summer School Interpreter $7,069 Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School: Colonel J. Fred Scott School: Robert Thirsk High School: Athletics Program $325 Earl Grey School: Through the Eyes of Children: Homelessness Athletics Program $1,950 Purchase of Fiction and Non-Fiction Books $4,750 Re-examined $7,500 Debate Program $500 Spark Bike Purchase $760 Douglas Harkness School: Maker Education $48 Ernest Manning High School: Outdoor School at Camp Chief Hector YMCA $5,455 Sir John A. Macdonald School: Jason and Jane Louie Memorial Fund Grant $343 Alberta Skills Competition $300 Dr. Gordon Higgins School: Henry Wise Wood High School: Financial Literacy $594 Sunnyside School: Debate Program $150 Hugh A. Bennett High School: Motion Seating Stools $1,183 Thomas B. Riley School: Louis Riel School: Literacy in Action - Connecting Literacy Debate Program $1,100 Across the Curriculum $3,045 Program Fees for Students in Financial Need $3,073 Tom Baines School: Technology Learning Fund for Tomorrow’s Leaders $43 Lester B. Pearson High School: Western Canada High School: Boa Carts $5,000 Athletics Program $130 Athletics Program $600 West View School: English Language Learner Support $42,975 Educational Technology $190 Aboriginal Elder Visits and Activities $1,680 Finance Club $5,359 William Reid School: Protective Factors and Student Engagement $1,600 Library to Learning Commons $33,000 Math Manipulatives $1,747 “Pride in the Properties” Event $10,000 William Aberhart High School: Marlborough School: Guest Clinicians for Band Program $2,000 System-Wide Library to Learning Commons $33,000 William Taylor Learning Centre: Calgary Board of Education: Monterey Park School: Bouldering Wall $19,125 Activating Youth Leadership $1,053 Creating Math Thinking Classrooms $6,408 Southeast Calgary Board of Education Nelson Mandela High School: Cinderella Project $475 Chaparral School: Alberta Skills Competition $300 Calgary Board of Education: Learning Commons $5,000 Athletics Program $400 Dual Credit and/or Exploratory Programs $315,248 Ernest Morrow School: Pineridge School: Calgary Board of Education: Library to Learning Commons $33,000 Grandparent Program $789 Dual Credit Business Management $7,315 Father Lacombe High School: Rundle School: Calgary Board of Education: East Side Dance Festival $4,470 Fuel for School Program $2,684 Library to Learning Commons $33,000 Forest Lawn High School: Calgary Board of Education: Water Coolers, Caves & Campfires $15,000 View From the Inside $4,291 Off-Campus Educational Opportunities - Pincher Creek Ted Harrison School: Jack James High School: Interdisciplinary Learning Experience $12,500 Studio Artists in Schools Program $20,000 Alberta Skills Competition $1,650 Calgary Board of Education: Northwest Lord Beaverbrook High School: Sensory Supports / ASD Pilot Project $80,000 Balmoral Middle School: Alberta Skills Competition $450 Calgary Board of Education: Debate Program $880 Athletics Program $93 Traditional Pow Wow and Workshops $15,000 Belvedere Parkway School: LBHS Sport Development Initiative $3,800 Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta (JASA): Movement for Learning $10,000 Midnapore School: Bowness High School: Guided Reading Books for the Mandarin Entrepreneurial Trades Program $47,500 Discovering Choices (Downtown): Athletics Program $285 Bilingual Program $6,000 Outdoor Leadership $8,070 F.E. Osborne School: Niitsitapi (Aboriginal) Learning Centre: Make Something - Construction and Design Studios $3,000 Debate Program $220 Milk Program $1,900 Student Basic Needs $50,000 Highwood School: Sherwood School: Mathletics $4,800 Visual Arts Program $3,000 James Fowler High School: Valley View School: Total Disbursed: $996, 911 Library to Learning Commons $33,000 Alberta Skills Competition $550 Athletics Program $560 2017 Student Awards - Fuelling Potential

Aaron Family Scholarship $450 Haworth & Heritage Business Interiors Samaritan Club Scholarship $1,000 Aberhart Alumni Scholarship $4,000 Architecture/Interior Design Shawn Whitney Memorial Award $250 Aboriginal Students Awards $2,000 Scholarships $1,000 Singleton Family Endowment Accomplished Angels Student Henry Wise Wood Class of 1970 Award $2,500 Awards $21,250 Scholarships $1,200 Skipping Stone Foundation Adrienne Goudie Memorial Bursary $800 Henry Wise Wood Warriors Legacy Transgender Community Award $3,000 Arrata Family Award for New Endowment Scholarships $2,000 Southland Transportation Canadians $4,300 Hopewell Scholarship $23,850 Scholarship $4,000 Benjamin (Ben) Albert Awards $15,000 Hugh Robertson Science Award $750 Steven Irving Memorial Music Bowness Historical Society Award $500 Inspiring Immigrant Award $1,000 Scholarships $1,500 Bruce Leitl Composition Award $1,000 Integro Legacy Post Secondary Susy Devlin Memorial Awards $1,650 Calgary Bridge Foundation for Scholarships $13,100 Tenaris Merit Awards $8,000 Youth Student Awards $3,455 International Science Olympiad Terry Allen Leadership Award $300 Calgary Entrepreneur Bursary $1,500 Thomas Moore Memorial Bursary $1,000 Organization Student Award $4,000 Ivy & Len Freeston Student Award $1,000 Thomas Walter Morrish Memorial Calgary Flames Foundation James Fowler School Award $500 Scholarship $600 Community Involvement Jennifer Ellen Shepherd Memorial Thorner/Johnston/DiMarzo Scholarship $4,000 Award $7,500 Family Bursary $1,500 Calgary Heritage Lions Club Joan Ethier Women in Science Tom Inkster Memorial Scholarship $1,000 Scholarship $500 Scholarships $22,739 Trades Related Career Pathways CBE Staff Association Awards $7,500 Keith Carswell Memorial Student Awards $1,000 City of Calgary Degree Granting Scholarship $500 Viscount Bennett Band Parents Scholarships $22,100 Keith Yu Memorial Scholarship $1,000 Association Awards $400 City of Calgary Post Secondary Kermet Archibald & Jacoba Van Western Canada Band Camp/Tour Scholarships $3,400 Den Brink Entrance Bursaries Bursary $600 Claire McCormick Poppitt Award $500 at the Calgary Foundation $100,000 William Keir MacGougan Memorial ConocoPhillips Canada Awards $1,500 Laine McLeod Memorial Bursary $700 David E. Mitchell Award $2,000 Scholarship $1,500 David James Anderson Memorial Lana Hanson Scholarship $729 Total Disbursed: $474,279 Award $2,000 Langevin School Bursary $1,100 Discovering Choices Leader of Laurie Sommerville Scholarship Tomorrow Awards $1,000 Award $4,600 Dom Chieffo Memorial Award $1,150 Margaret J. Cochlan Memorial Doris Donald Memorial Bursary in Award $1,000 Fine Arts $300 Marguerite Patricia P. Bannister Dr. Gordon Higgins Student Awards $600 Memorial Degree Awards at Drs. Harry and Martha Cohen the Calgary Foundation $108,000 Prize Fund $900 Marjorie Taylor Memorial Durkie Arts Award $1,000 Scholarships $2,250 Dustin Peers Memorial Visual Marnie Whitehead Memorial Arts Award $7,350 Scholarship $225 Edith Berger Memorial Scholarship $750 Maureen Langston Memorial EducationMatters Future Leaders Award $500 Award $1,000 Mary Belkin Memorial Scholarship $500 E. George Brigden Memorial McKillop Student Awards $1,500 Scholarship $1,000 MW & JR Tebo Memorial ENMAX Environmental Leadership Journalism Award $661 Scholarship $1,000 Pamela Hardy Memorial Award $4,000 ENMAX Scholarship $2,500 Queen Elizabeth Deaf and Hard Fogolâr Furlan di Calgary of Hearing Scholarship $3,000 Italian Award $1,000 RBC Future Leaders Scholarship $1,000 Frank Whipple Memorial Bursary $500 Richard Dunn Music Scholarship $1,125 Gary Weimann Award for Rick Theriault Outstanding Community Service $395 Athletic Contribution Award $750 Green & Gold Awards $11,000 Rosalie Szuch Scholarship $2,000 Hal Winlaw Health & Nutrition Ross Glen Scholarship $500 Legacy Award $1,000 “We at Niitsitapi Learning Centre could not have provided such rich, deep connections with students, parents, partners, and the greater community without the support of EducationMatters.”

Michelle Ranger, Principal Niitsitapi Learning Centre

eutionmatters Thank You for Your Generous Support in 2017 Your are enhancing opportunities for students in Calgary

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