Charter Board Ready to Split from the Eagleview Foundation

Our community needs a school! Our community needs a library! Our community needs a tech center! Our community needs a clinic! Jobs! Child care!

When the Foundation first formed last summer, and mailed a needs survey out in the fall, we received a lot of suggestions for what we should do to make our community a better place to live. People were not only ready to ask for things, many were ready to roll up their sleeves and make things happen.

Founded with a mission of bringing lifelong learning to the community, the Foundation took on as many projects as possible with limited funds and volunteers. Now we are ready to see the charter school board form as a separate non-profit and focus just on making the Eagleview Community Charter School a reality. While many of the faces are the same, and the Foundation will continue to work closely with the school, I felt it was time to remind folks that the Eagleview Community Foundation is more than "the school."

The Grand Rapids Herald Review quoted me back in August when I said it just doesn't make good business sense to have a school building that is only used 6 hours a day 174 days a year. I still feel that way and hope if you have thought about getting involved with the Foundation, but didn't think we'd have something for you because you don't have school aged children, think again.

We have many irons in the fire. Here's a list, but you could be the one to add something:

Community Technology Center
Community Library
Eagleview Robotics Adventure (for kids in grades 4-9 from any school)
With the city council, writing a Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthy Communities Grant
Blandin Community Leadership Program
Your Idea Here

Our next Eagleview Community Foundation board meeting will be on Thursday, May 10th at 6:30 PM in the music room at Eagleview School. Stop by, grab a cup of coffee and join in.

Toni