Support that reaches classrooms
The campaign gave donors several routes to the same goal: money, equipment, sponsorship, race entries, and time.
Giving details are historical. This page records how the campaign accepted support during 2000–2001. Contact information is reproduced from the original site and may have changed.
Individual benefactors and local residents supported the campaign with monetary contributions. Gifts were mailed to the Foundation:
Carlsbad Educational Foundation
PO Box 205, Carlsbad, CA 92018
Include your name and address so the Foundation can acknowledge the gift and answer questions about its use.
Corporations and local merchants pledged funds, sponsored fundraising events, and devoted event proceeds to the campaign. Sponsorship could be tied to the Telethon, Taste of Carlsbad, or a school project.
Product donations were part of the campaign from the start: hardware, software, materials, training, and professional services all counted toward the technology goal.
In-kind gifts were matched to specific grant requests so donated equipment arrived where a teacher had already described how it would be used.
Registering for the Carlsbad 5000 or San Diego Marathon, buying a Taste of Carlsbad ticket, or supporting the Telethon all sent money to the same fund.
Volunteers staffed race courses, ran event check-in, supported the telethon production, and helped at Taste of Carlsbad. The campaign also needed people to distribute information to schools and businesses.
To volunteer, call (760) 438-0063 or email the campaign.
The most direct way to move money into a classroom was a technology grant application from a Carlsbad Unified teacher or school team.
Money raised by the campaign did not disappear into a general fund. It was converted into equipment, software, training, and services that teachers had requested in writing, with a principal’s signature on the application.
That design gave donors something unusual: a paper trail from their gift to a named classroom project.
If you are using this archive to build a similar program, the clearest pitch is the one the campaign used: a single public goal, a published grant process, and a promise to document what was funded. The grant information page has the full criteria set.
