Plainview ISD considers starting education foundation
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Plainview ISD is testing the waters to create an education foundation.
During a more than three-hour-long school board meeting Thursday night, Gary Zacher and Mike Melcher explained the steps to the board.
Zacher, director of annual giving for Wayland Baptist University, and Melcher, senior major gifts officer for WBU, noted the foundation will take time (about 18 months) to build before the district will really start feeling the benefits. It’ll require legal vetting, setup of a board to oversee it and donations, which will be its bread and butter.
Plainview ISD Superintendent H.T. Sanchez said the PISD Education Foundation would be a not-for-profit organization reliant on private funding, like donations. It could provide funding for classroom projects through teacher grants, student scholarships, charitable projects and maybe field trips, among other things. It’s essentially a philanthropic endeavor