About the New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence

The New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence supports critical aspects of public education that fall outside the purview of government-funded operating budgets.

The Fund procures outside resources for special programs and facilities that cannot be provided within the school budget and promotes a spirit of community involvement, enthusiasm and support for our schools. Among the programs supported by the Fund :

• Chess in Our Schools
• SAT Preparation Program 
• The Jeremy Scheinfeld Publishing Center
• The Rubie Saunders Literary Festival
• Poetry Out Loud
• Theatre Arts Production Assistance
• Band Recognition Luncheon
• Civics Week
• Agenda Books for Freshmen
• Science Speakers Bureau
• The Museum of Arts & Culture

You can support the New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence by making a tax-deductible contribution and by attending these fundraisers:

• Chess in Our Schools
  SAT Preparation Program 
  The Jeremy Scheinfeld Publishing Center
  The Rubie Saunders Literary Festival
  Poetry Out Loud
  Theatre Arts Production Assistance
  Band Recognition Luncheon
  Civics Week
  Agenda Books for Freshmen
  Science Speakers Bureau
  The Museum of Arts & Culture
• Annual Pancake Breakfast (held right before the Thanksgiving Day Parade)
• Foundation Awards Gala (annually except every fourth year)
• Benefit Concert (every four years) held this spring at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall on
• April 25, 2007.