Thank you Supervisor Chan!

This is a post AEF made in 2014 showing how Supervisor Wilma Chan was a long term supporter of Alameda Education Foundation, along with numerous other community organizations. She will be missed tremendously.

Supervisor Chan recently donated $3500 to the Equipped 4 Success school supply drive. Early childhood education is a critical element in Supervisor Chan’s “New War on Poverty” initiative. Supervisor Chan’s donation will support incoming Alameda low-income kindergarteners with backpacks and age appropriate supplies so they are ready to learn the first day of school.

Equipped 4 Success has a goal of supporting 1,000 low-income K – 12th grade Alameda students with backpacks and supplies. The drive is a collaboration of the Alameda Education Foundation (AEF), Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) McKinney-Vento program and Woodstock Community Development Center, Alameda Point Collaborative, Head Start, Alameda Boys & Girls Club, Girls Inc. of the Island City, and the Alameda Collaborative for Children, Youth and Families.

Donations may be made by clicking here.

Pictured left to right: Veronica Ufoegbune (Woodstock Community Development Center Director), Pam Chang (AEF board officer), Lynne Moore-Kerr (Alameda Head Start Program Director), Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan, Vicki Sedlack (AEF Executive Director), Doug Biggs (Alameda Point Collaborative Executive Director), Steve Cressy (Alameda Boys & Girls Club Board President), Margie Sherratt (AUSD Board of Education President), and Christine Chilcott (Girls Inc. of the Island City Program Director).