Three-fourths of the way
The campaign reports its progress, welcomes new business partners, and begins shaping the technology grant program.
Campaign updates, 2000–2001
Newsletter archive
Three issues that tracked the campaign from three-fourths of its goal through the Spring 2001 grant deadline.
About this archive. The original newsletter section held four linked pages with no body copy — the issues were never filled in before the site was captured. These summaries reconstruct the campaign’s 2000–2001 updates from its own published pages, with dates and figures kept as recorded.
Grants open for Spring 2001
Criteria and deadlines for the new grant cycle, plus the telethon and Taste of Carlsbad dates for the year ahead.
Deadline month
Nine copies, a March 23 postmark, and a district-wide call for volunteers as event season begins.
What the newsletter covered
Each issue did the same four things: reported how close the campaign was to its $1,000,000 goal, explained where the money had gone, listed upcoming events, and told readers exactly how to help that month.
That rhythm mattered. A campaign that ran for years needed a predictable way to show progress to donors who had already given, and to give new readers a reason to join.
Still useful today
The issues are a compact record of how a local education foundation communicated with its community: short updates, concrete deadlines, named events, and a single phone number to call. The FAQ answers the questions readers asked most often.