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Fiscal Year in Review 2020 FISCAL YEAR IN REVIEW The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia c/o Duane Morris 30 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 215.979.7122 thefundsdp.org The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia identifies, coordinates and connects philanthropic resources to level the playing field in local public schools. The Fund SDP's partnership with the School District of Philadelphia seeks to promote equity, improve performance, and create 21st century learning environments where all students can succeed. THE FUND SDP | 02 What'sWhat's Inside:Inside: TTableable ofof ContentsContents A Message from our Chairman and CEO 03 5 Years of The Fund SDP Timeline 05 JULY 1, 2019 - JUNE 30, 2020 Donations by the Numbers 07 Philly FUNDamentals 08 Technology Equity 09 Live Nation: The Met Ticket Sales Program 10 Special Events Dress Down Day Philly 11 Burger Brawl 12 Homecoming Weekend 13 NSFA Conference 15 Citywide Virtual Graduation 16 New Donor Spotlight 18 Our Donors 20 Grants Under Management 26 Statement of Financial Position 29 Our Board 30 FISCAL YEAR 2020 IN REVIEW MESSAGE FROM OUR CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER The Fund SDP turns 5! Fiscal year 2020 was a year unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic led to vast loss of lives and livelihoods in our city, our nation, and the world, disproportionately impacting people of color, low-wage “essential workers,” immigrants, and refugees—the people whose children attend our public schools. Making life even more difficult, George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis unleashed the hurt and rage of the African-American community and brought to light the inequities, brutality, and injustices that African-Americans have faced in America for 400 years. Sheldon M. Bonovitz, Board Chair Few institutions were hit as hard by the pandemic as our public schools. Our more than 200 school buildings had to close suddenly. But in the face of this crisis, the School District sprang into action to support its families and worked relentlessly to help school communities. The District immediately arranged for families to pick up the free breakfasts and lunches, normally served in schools. Instruction, which had to be conducted remotely, never stopped. Families were able to pick up learning packets until Chromebooks were distributed for remote learning. The District also set up a hotline to Donna Frisby-Greenwood, President and CEO handle the social and emotional needs of THE FUND SDP | 03 THE FUND SDP | 04 students and their families because of the effects of COVID-19, as well as the effects of racial injustice in our city and in our country. While all of this was happening, The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia reached its five-year milestone, but it was not a year to celebrate an anniversary. It was a year to be grateful for what we’ve built over the last five years. Thankfully, we had built enough trust and social capital so that we could respond effectively to the many needs of the District during an unprecedented year. One of our biggest accomplishments was to quickly raise nearly $7.3 million to support the District’s purchase of 50,000 new Chromebooks for District students’ remote learning needs. This was all because of your generosity. The following pages highlight what we accomplished in fiscal year 2020, as well as some of our successes over the past 5 years. Thank you for believing in our work and, more importantly, for believing in our students, teachers, and administrators! Sheldon M. Bonovitz Donna Frisby-Greenwood Board Chairman | President & CEO YEARS OF THE FUND SDP 5 YEARS OF THE FUND SDP CAMPAIGNS MAY 2015 NOVEMBER 2015 JANUARY 2016 JUNE 2016 JUNE 2016 Donna Frisby- Launched The Fund SDP was The Fund SDP raised Philly Burger Brawl, Greenwood joined The Right Books the beneficiary of a cumulative founded by Rob and The Fund SDP as campaign to raise Mayor Jim Kenney's amount of Maggie Wasserman, President and CEO. $3.5 million as Inauguration Block $9,051,200 and moved to Xfinity Live match for $3.5 M Party with more awarded $5,846,714 with more than from Lenfest than $500,000 in grants to The 2,000 attendees and Foundation for K-3 directed to the Right School District of continued to raise classroom leveled Books Campaign. Philadelphia. funds for libraries. technology-based literacy programs. OCTOBER 2016 JUNE 2017 NOVEMBER 2017 DECEMBER 2017 JANUARY 2018 Temple The Fund SDP has Philly FUNDamentals The Symphony, Lane Johnson and Contemporary now raised a is launched, our composed by David Chris Long along created and cumulative amount map-based, crowd- Lang, was performed with NFL.com launched Symphony of $12,807,374 and funding platform for with the District's partner with the for a Broken awarded Donors to Find A Broken Instruments. Fund SDP to sell Orchestra to raise $10,831,177 in School and Fund a Donors who adopted "Underdog T-shirts" money for more grants to The School Future. instruments donated to benefit school than 1,400 broken District of more than $250,000 needs on Philly instruments in our Philadelphia. and were invited to FUNDamentals. schools. attend the concert. Eagles fans bought t- shirts totaling over $207K + a $125K additional donation from the NFL... and the Eagles won the Superbowl! THE FUND SDP | 05 THE FUND SDP | 06 APRIL 2018 JUNE 2018 june 2018 SEPTEMBER 2018 JUNE 2019 Launched "Keeping The cumulative The Right Books Founded by Ellen The Fund SDP has the Beat" campaign amount raised by Campaign reached Lissy Rosenberg, a reached a total of to advocate for the The Fund SDP its goal of $3.5 M Central High School $20,943,653 raised need for Automated reaches $15,172,786 with a closing gift of alum, Dress Down and $15,710,107 External Defibrillator with $12,798,356 $450,000 from Day for Philly Public awarded to The (AED) in every awarded to The Aileen and Brian Schools began with School District of school. By June, School District of Roberts Family support from the Philadelphia. funding was secured Philadelphia. Foundation. Other Goldenberg Group. to place AED significant gifts In this first year, machines in all included $750,000 1,215 shirts were schools and a repair from the DNC Host sold and 140 schools and replacement Committee and supported. fund created. $500,000 from Vanguard Strong Start for Kids. SEPTEMBER 2019 OCTOBER 2019 NOVEMBER 2019 MARCH 2020 JUNE 2020 Philly Alumni Second annual Dress The first Philly The Fund SDP raises In it's 5th year, launched as a Down Day for Philly Homecoming $7,278,072 for the The Fund SDP has citywide network of Public Schools takes Weekend was purchase of 50,000 raised a total of Philadelphia public place with more launched with an new Chromebooks $28,590,581 and school alumni. than 2,386 shirts Alumni Awards for students to begin awarded sold and 206 schools Dinner and Dance, remote learning due $25,535,066 to The supported. School Visits for to COVID-19 School District of alumni, and a Battle pandemic. Philadelphia. of the High School Bands. TD Bank was the title sponsor. DONATIONS BY THE NUMBERS Fiscal Year 2020 saw increased INDIVIDUAL, donations and an increase in the FOUNDATION, number of donors. & CORPORATE $10.8 M GIVING TOTAL DONATIONS We received $10,854,526 to support Philadelphia public school students 1,685 DONORS Total number of donors that gave to The Fund SDP in FY2020. FNDN CORP DONORS % 2.8% 4.3% 1,566 INDIVIDUALS 46 FOUNDATIONS 73 CORPORATIONS 93% of our donations were gifted by individual donors. INDV 92.9% THE FUND SDP | 07 THE FUND SDP | 08 PHILLY FUNDAMENTALS FIND A SCHOOL FUND A FUTURE $339,370 TOTAL DONATIONS TO PHILLY FUNDAMENTALS 57 SCHOOLS FUNDRAISED ON THE PLATFORM IN FY 2020 WITH 16 CAMPAIGNS FULLY FUNDED 1,385 DONORS PHILLY FUNDAMENTAL DONORS TOTAL $245 AVERAGE DONATION AMOUNT YEARS OF THE FUND SDP TECHNOLOGY EQUITY The COVID-19 pandemic forced Philadelphia CLOSING THE public school buildings to close and all instruction and learning was remote. Philadelphia's deep digital divide required DIGITAL DIVIDE urgent action since only half of our 3rd through 12th grade students had the equipment they needed to begin participating in online lessons. With roughly 45,000 Chromebooks on hand, the District needed about 50,000 more for every student to have a Chromebook at home. The Fund SDP sprang into fundraising action to raise the needed funding. $7.2 M TOTAL DONATIONS In just two months, we received $7,278,070 in donations to purchase 35,000 Chromebooks on behalf of the District. 37 DONORS Nearly 40 individual donors came together to support the Technology Fund, with $5M from Aileen & Brian Roberts and $2M from Managing Partners Josh Harris and David Blitzer of the Philadelphia 76ers. The other 35 donors contributed a total of $278,070 with contributions of $100,000 each from Bank of America and Independence Public Media Foundation. THE FUND SDP | 09 THE FUND SDP | 10 LIVE NATION: THE MET TICKET SALES PROGRAM $110 K DONATED FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN FY 2020 Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House (The Met), is formerly the Philadelphia Opera House built in 1908. In partnership with Live Nation, The Met donated 25 cents for each ticket sold to The Fund to support music education in the School District of Philadelphia. Philly natives and music legends Boyz II Men presented the check at their Valentine's Day 2020 concert at The Met, alongside Live Nation and The Fund SDP representatives. YEARS OF THE FUND SDP SPECIAL EVENTS: DRESS DOWN DAY PHILLY The second annual Dress Down Day for Philly Public Schools took place on October 4, 2019.
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