Consortium of Florida Education Foundations

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If you require assistance or additional information, please contact the Consortium.

Foundations for Excellence: Quality Standards for Florida’s Local Education Foundations

DRAWING ON 30 YEARS OF BEST PRACTICES, YOUR PEER LOCAL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS HAVE DEVELOPED PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR MEMBERS AS A VOLUNTARY SELF-ASSESSMENT AND PEER REVIEW PROCESS.

Specific practices in six key areas were identified – all with a goal of providing a strong foundation that is sustainable beyond leadership and program changes. Great care was taken to make the standards achievable by small, volunteer-driven organizations yet provide room for growth for more established, larger members. In going through the review process, Consortium members will submit evidence for meeting each standard while having ready access to national resources and quality sample documents.

WHY YOUR FOUNDATION SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN FOUNDATIONS FOR EXCELLENCE QUALITY STANDARDS

• Improved Effectiveness—Quality standards help set consistent expectations among local education foundation boards and staff, helping to focus on areas of need and make effective use of sometimes limited time and talent.
• Guidance for Growth Areas—Quality standards provide a framework for documenting, communicating and providing training and technical assistance to advance best practices with support from peers and statewide membership organization.
• Improved Function—Local education foundations exist to serve school districts and local partners in improving K-12 education. Knowing that your programs are effectively serving your students and schools, your board is functioning in highly-effective manner, you are communicating with mission-aligned messages, and your organizational and business practices maximize limited resources, can go a long way to ensuring your foundation is doing everything it can to support your district in raising student achievement.

Still have questions? Check out these FAQs or give us a call.

SUPPORT FOR YOUR LOCAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION

• Peer Feedback—Leaders from peer local education foundations will provide feedback on submitted documents and ratings in the form of one-on-one consultations.
• Sample Documents—The Consortium provides vetted sample documents in every standard area that are specifically applicable to local education foundations.

HOW YOU CAN USE YOUR QUALITY STANDARD RATING

You can share your Foundations for Excellence rating with anyone you wish—your board, district, business partners, the wider community—but the Consortium never will. This process is meant to support your foundation in growing to be a highly-effective organization on common standards of excellence. Sharing the fact that you have participated in this exercise and are striving to continually improve your processes and practices is a badge of honor we hope you can be proud of and use as a benchmark of success for your organization.

Key dates 24-25

Able Trust

23-24 funding cycle:

Final Reports open: December 15, 2024

Final Reports due: January 31, 2025

24-25 funding cycle:

Application opens: August 5, 2024

Application deadline: September 24, 2024

Mid-year report due: January 15, 2025

Final Reports due: April 30, 2025

AT&T Full STEAM Ahead

Application Deadline: Nov 8, 2024 (Tentative)
Mid-Year Report: March 31, 2025
Final Reports Open: May 1, 2025
Final Reports Due: June 25, 2025

DeLuca Healthcare Pathways

Final Reports Due: Aug 31, 2024

FL Lottery Lighting the Way to a Bright Future

Application opens: September 1, 2024

Application deadline: October 4, 2024

Final Reports due: May 15, 2025

FPL EmPOWERing STEM Educators

Mid-Year Report: December 1, 2024

Last Day for Debriefing: Apr 30, 2025
Project Review Webinar: May 15. 2025 (tentative)
Post Teacher Survey: May 31, 2025

HCA Healthcare Career Pathways

Year 1 final report due: June 30, 2025

Year 2 final report due: June 30, 2026

Year 3 final report due: June 30, 2027

Matching Grant

Application Deadline: Sep 1, 2024
Second Round Due: Oct 31, 2024
Mid-Year Reports Open: Dec 1, 2024
Mid-Year Report Due: Jan 13, 2025
Final Reports Open: May 1, 2025
Final Reports Due: June 30, 2025

Resiliency Through the Community

All spending and final monthly spending invoice due via email: September 10, 2024
Final Reports Due: October 15, 2024

Wells Fargo Investing in Florida’s Future

Application Deadline: Sep 5, 2024
Mid-Year Report: Feb 14, 2025

Deadline to return unused funds: March 1, 2025
Final Reports Open: Apr 1, 2025
Final Reports Due: May 31, 2025