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Funding Support Soars
Three Alliance schools will start the year with $1.2 million dollars awarded in State Charter School grants.
The Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools is moving forward successfully with acquiring matching grants to support their schools and the organization. Each benefactor made its generous grant as a way to affirm the important mission of the Alliance small charter schools and to secure a firm financial foundation for current and future campuses.
The Skirball Foundation has awarded a $600,000 grant to the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. The grant will be used to create a new charter school to be named for Jack H. Skirball, the founder of the Skirball Foundation. Funding will paid over three years.
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation awarded $100,000 towards the start-up of a small Alliance charter school. The Parsons Foundation supports, in its own words, “Southern California's best non-profit organizations to provide critically needed services” to the disadvantaged and poor.
Harold Williams, Nancy Englander, and the J. P. Getty Matching Gift Program contributed $10,000 to support the opening of the three new Alliance charter schools on August 29th.
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ressler donated a $400,000 matching multiyear grant for Huntington Park College-Ready Academy High School. The school will be named in honor of Jami Gertz (Mrs. Ressler), actress and philanthropist. The school curriculum will include a focus on drama performance and will support avenues to the entertainment industry job market.
William Ouchi contributed $1000 with matching gifts from Sempra Energy and AECOM Technologies Corporation Management Group that will provide $3000 to Alliance schools.
