KGA:  RELATIONS WITH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS

The School Committee recognizes the importance of community support, including voluntary financial contributions, in assisting the Kittery School Department in enhancing student learning opportunities and achieving the school unit’s goals.  The School Committee recognizes that educational foundations are separate legal entities that are independent of the Kittery School Department.

The School Committee desires to work cooperatively with local educational foundations and trusts in communicating the needs of the schools and determining the purposes for which funds may be most effectively used in meeting the needs of the school unit and its students.

The School Committee may appoint a liaison or representative to the local educational foundation if invited to do so.

The School Committee welcomes local educational foundations to provide regular reports to the School Committee concerning their work and to communicate ways that the school unit can help support the foundation’s activities. 

With the approval of the School Committee and as appropriate, an educational foundation may use the school unit’s name and/or logo or the name and/or logo of one or more of Kittery’s public schools.

Acceptance of gifts and/or funds from educational foundations will be considered in accordance with School Committee policy.  

Adopted:                    October 15, 2013

Cross Reference:         DD – Grants

                                 KCD – Public Gifts/Donations to the Schools