Building a foundation for education...
The Mat-Su Borough continues to be the fastest growing area in the state. Funding has not kept pace with inflation and this growth, causing a significant gap between available funding from State and Local revenues and the annual operating budget of the District.
The Matanuska-Susitna Schools Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation organized to support the educational needs of our school district. Contributions are exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) and deductible under section 170 of the Code.
Read more about the Imagination Library that has come to the Mat-Su Valley. Registration forms are available for Wasilla residents at neighborhood schools and CCS Head Start. Or register online.
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Give a part of your PFD to MSSF through the Charitable Contributions Program
Mat-Su Schools Foundation is pleased to announce that we are part of the new PFD Charitable Contributions Program. The Alaska Legislature passed a law in 2008 making this new way to give possible for all Alaskans filing for their PFD on-line. We are excited about the opportunity that it provides all Alaskans to give to their favorite nonprofit organizations.By giving through this program, you join others to become an important force in bettering our communities and our state. For those of you who already support MSSF, we appreciate your gifts and hope you will use this option to make an additional donation.
How to Donate Using Your Dividend:
When you go online to sign up for you dividend, you will see the option called " Gift of Giving".1. Click the "Gift of Giving" option
2. Choose the (Statewide) Region
3. Choose (Mat-Su Schools Foundation) name
4. Choose the amount you would like to donate
5. Enter your contact information so we are able to acknowledge you contributed
Thank you for your donation!
You can find more information about the program, including frequently asked questions here, or you may email us.
Teachers make nonprofit grants perform wonders
GOOD IDEAS: Mat-Su schools foundation makes it possible.By RINDI WHITE rwhite@adn.com
(12/16/08 22:18:27)
WASILLA -- Thanks to a new nonprofit handing out grants, Glacier View language arts teacher Claudia Berkley won't have to use her credit card to pay for 15 copies of Ellen Raskin's "The Westing Game" for her junior high students to read in class.Berkley and seven other teachers each received $250 grants from the Mat-Su Schools Foundation, a nonprofit that technically started in 2005 but just this winter distributed its first round of gifts. more of this article...
11/21/2008 Frontiersman News Release
In 2002 Linda Menard had a vision of a foundation for the Mat-Su Schools. Her concept of a private/public fundraising entity for the Mat-Su schools finally became a functional reality in 2008.
A diverse and experienced board of directors accomplished the IRS non-profit and other regulatory status. Then an endowment f und with the Alaska Community Fund was established. The Mat-Su Schools Foundation can now accept charitable giving and restricted donor gifts for the purposes of funding educational programs.
This week the Mat-Su Schools Foundation is working on its strategic plan to further accomplish its new mission. Fundraising will occur for both unrestricted funds and restricted endowments for future educational needs.
There are unique, excellent and innovative funding that can now occur for specific educational programs identified by teachers. Last week the Mat-Su Schools Foundation funded eight specific grants or gifts to teachers.
Our community can be pleased with being one of the first and leading school foundations being established in Alaska. We may become a model for how our Alaskan society funds education needs in the future.
