Third Annual REACH for the Music

The 3rd Annual REACH for the Music event – A Songwriters Circle – will be held at the Suffern Library on Sunday, November 8th at 1:30 P.M. at the Suffern Library.

This year’s lineup features host Brian Muni, Sam Leopold, newcomers James and Andrea Rohlehr (from the group “aj”) and other surprise guests, including the recipients of this year’s REACH Young Songwriters Competition.

All submissions for the Songwriter Competition must be submitted by October 30, 2009.

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REACH Welcome Parents Social

Please join us for a Welcome Parents Social on Thursday, October 15, 2009 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. at 4 Bogey Place, Montebello Pines.

Come and learn more about our fun and exciting events! Be part of our REACH team. Bring friends and meet fun and active people in your school district. This is an adults only event.

Desserts and coffee will be served. Looking forward to meeting you.

RSVP by October 10th to 357-5129 or info@reachfoundation.org

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School foundations find charity still exists

The Journal News – March 16, 2009

Dan Juechter worried that charity was dead. He’s not so worried anymore.

Juechter is president of Inspire Nyack, a foundation created in August 2007 to raise money to help fund Nyack school programs.

Last year, the group held its first fundraiser and garnered nearly $60,000 at a casino night, which translated into a $40,000 gift to Nyack schools after expenses were taken out.

The money went to pay for Nyack’s robotics classes.

With its first fundraiser so successful, Juechter scheduled the second annual casino night for Feb. 28. Then he watched as the economy worsened, people lost their jobs and proposed tax law changes would make charitable gift-giving less attractive. Continue reading

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Bake sales for science labs

A Journal News Editorial – September 4, 2008

Rockland districts’ late foray into establishing school foundations comes in the nick of time. Property taxpayers are stretched to the limits, yet schools must still offer sophisticated programs to help prepare students to enter a competitive marketplace.

High school band booster clubs, elementary school PTAs and other local efforts have long raised money for those “extras,” from field trips to office equipment Continue reading

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Foundations provide icing, and some cake

Randi Weiner
The Journal News – September 3, 2008

It wasn’t that the school budget didn’t pay for the basics that caused parents in the Ramapo Central School District to decide to start a foundation, Marci Linke said.

It was that schools ought to offer more than the bare necessities – and that taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to fund them. Continue reading

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