Dear MCEF Supporter,

On behalf of the Madison County Education Foundation, I extend our greetings and hope that this letter finds you and your loved ones well.  I would like to take this opportunity to update you on the work we are doing.

Our foundation is continuing to work with the Madison County schools and community organizations to ensure that education continues during these difficult times.  We are adapting our work to meet the current needs of the groups we work with.

For example, our signature program, Everybody Wins, has changed its way of having adult mentors interact with students.  Instead of meeting with the students for shared reading, the adults and students have begun a pen pal relationship, working with the teacher to exchange letters.  In addition, our teacher grant guidelines have been modified somewhat to allow for some grant applications that might be for projects that are necessitated by the particular challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are reaching out to our community to ask for your financial support.  We elected to forgo our spring fundraising efforts last March due to the uncertainties of the time.  We now ask you to help us out so we can give the maximum support possible to the schools and other community educational groups that we traditionally support.

December 1^st is nationally designated as Giving Tuesday.  We ask that you remember MCEF when you consider your end-of-year giving this year and make a Giving Tuesday contribution.  All donations help meet needs right here in Madison County.

You may make a donation by mail by sending a check to

MCEF
PO BOX 1277
MADISON VA 22727-1277

Or online with a debit or credit card [paypal_donation_button]

You may designate a teacher to honor with your donation by including their name with your donation. We will recognize the teachers through their schools with a special presentation, as well as announcing them in the newspaper and here on our web site.

We thank you for your help in making education a priority in our community!

Sincerely,

Susan G. Bramley, President