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For six years in a row, the Spring Branch Education Foundation (SBEF) has raised and gifted more than $1 million to Spring Branch ISD and its innovative teachers and high-achieving students.

SBEF Executive Director Cece Thompson and the foundation Chair Lisa Schwartz presented an oversized check for $1,349,513 to reflect funds gifted to SBISD for the past year. This presentation occurred during the Sept. 29 Board of Trustees meeting, which was held at Northbrook High School.

In introductory remarks, Trustee J. Carter Breed noted that SBEF exists to support the district’s educators and students. It partners with the district and community to fund programs that enhance students’ educational experience and support the district’s T-2-4 success goal.

SBISD’s singular T-2-4 Goal aims for all SBISD graduates to earn either military service, a technical certification, or a 2- or 4-year college or university degree.

“We are honored tonight to thank the foundation,” Trustee Breed stated, “and to recognize the work of the Spring Branch Education Foundation board of directors and our generous community for their efforts to raise much needed funds to support district initiatives, scholarships and students in a most unusual year.”

In separate remarks, SBISD Associate Superintendent for Community Relations Linda Buchman said that the annual district gifts presentation was her favorite presentation, an opportunity “to express gratitude and to say ‘thank you,’ as there is no partner who does more or puts more heart or more meaning into support for the school district than our friends at the Spring Branch Education Foundation.”

SBEF’s leadership and board really puts the word “engagement” into the term of  community engagement, Buchman said, and does so by “engaging thousands of our community members through [SBEF] events, through the opportunity to give and donate, and through the various ways that folks can send funds in honor of someone,” including scholarships.

Such added opportunities wouldn’t be possible for district teachers and students without SBEF, she noted.

The associate superintendent said that many Community Relations special events and programs occur regularly only because of the “incredible hard work, grit and determination, and sheer heart that these folks put forth on behalf of Spring Branch ISD each and every day.”

Examples of such events and programs include the Character Without Question student celebration held in Northbrook High’s auditorium along with families during February Board of Trustees meetings and the issuance of teacher mini-grants every fall.

To learn more or to donate to SBEF, please visit:

https://sbef.springbranchisd.com/