Giving

Services

Donations of services

 

Our benefactors have donated services whose value we estimate at $26,948, over and above the 8.5 full-time-equivalent years of unpaid service by our director and board.

 

By the parents and relatives of our students

 


   Joshua Donato
         Over 200 hours, esp. in furniture construction
   Jacob & Karen Trujillo
         Over 70 hours of tutoring, cleaning, & supervision
   Leticia Burbano de Lara & Edgar Barrantes
         So much help with Spanish classes & cultural learning
   Andrea Camunez
         Making manipulatives, doing publicity
   Travis Turner & Gaylene Fasenko
         Helping construction and cleaning
   Shonda Kiser
         Organizing & participating in our book fairs
   Polly Kamali
         Much classroom help
   Sangeeth Shanbhag
         Cleaning for our events
   Prasanna Pai
         Fundraising contacts and looking for new rental properties
   Svetlana West
         Help in fundraising
   Kishor Shrestha
         Addressing many invitations  to our event
   Steve Pate & Liz Horodowich
         Searching addresses for invitations to our event
   Marc Chavez
         Searching addresses for invitations to our event
   Beverly Hammant
         Addressing invitations to our event
   Alfredo Gurmendi
         Searching out foundations for grant proposals
   All of our PTA members
         Advice & winter fundraising
   All our parents
         Great participation & providing food at our school dinners & fundraisers

 

By our teachers

 

        Of course, as professionals, they can’t technically volunteer, but they’ve gone the extra mile

 


   Paula Hines

        Advice, management, tutoring in class & out of class, 300 h of dyslexia services, painting & cleaning during our opening preparations
   Debbie Cota
        250 h of dyslexia services
   Yolanda Guevara
        Painting & cleaning during our opening preparations
   Mei Deng
        Teaching Chinese at our book fairs

 

By our advisors

 


   Darlene Armstrong
         Evaluating admission applications & teachers
   Lynna Asbury
         Evaluating admission applications & teachers

 

By people from the community

 


   Will Beattie
         Science demonstrations & the gift of 95 science kits
   David & Cathy Blanchard
         Holding the rental space for us 3 months rent-free
   Carolyn & Henry Bunch
         Use of their fine art gallery
   Leonard Gambrell & Lori Miller
         Use of their historic house for fundraising
   Rem Alley
         Design advice on our leasehold improvements
   Kathy Groves
         Helping teach science
   Fred Bugbee, Mike Armendariz,  & Rob Keedy
         Music at our fundraisers
   Connie Maxwell

         Painting, cleaning, & construction during our opening preparations


   Diana Sherrer
          Painting & cleaning during our opening preparations
   Doug Murray
         Helping construct furniture
   Dan Philpot, Albuquerque, and Norm Fristoe
         Financial and business-planning advice
   Tom Packard
         Donating a service we auctioned at a fundraiser
   Steve Newby
         Advice on architectural changes before the school opened
   Jon Mercurio
         Science demonstration on flight
   Kathy Roman
         Painting & cleaning during our opening preparations
   Picture Frame Factory Outlet
         Discounted framing on auction items
   Barbara Kimber, Lisa Ebbs, & Sarah Hudseth
         Working at our 4th of July refreshment sales
   Adele Eaton
         Tap-dancing at our grand opening on 30 May 2009
   Mi Deng
         Teaching chess

 

By our board

 


   Lou Ellen Kay, our director

        4 years of origination of the school, financing of the deficit, board service, business planning, daily management, teaching, construction, cleaning, publicity
   Vince Gutschick, chair of our board of trustees
        4 years of board service, construction, bookkeeping, business planning, IT service, science demos & outreach, fundraising, Web services, & publicity
   David Gutschick
        4 years of board service, construction, business planning, IT service, fundraising, Web services, science demos, & publicity
   Sue J. Shiao
        3 years of board service, Web design, & publicity
   Paula Hines
        1 year of board service, advice on policy
   Harry Hellmuth
        3 years of board service, advice on policy, finances
   Paul Deason
        3 years of board service, publicity, seeking funds

 

8.5 FTE-years of board volunteer work.  The efforts of the other volunteers have helped us increase the value of our own time

 

The estimated monetary value of all these services is at least $356,000.  We could not run without these.

 

If we have overlooked your contribution of services, please let us know!