Historically, at this time of year, the board approves both a club budget and a foundation budget for the following year. Some of the feedback we heard from the club survey and our small group discussions are that our foundation budget supports the same projects every year and that we should review our process. We discussed this at our board meeting this past Tuesday and the board agreed to delay the approval of the foundation budget for a few months to allow us to develop criteria for approving funding requests. As we have historically done, the current board will review and approve the club budget at our June board meeting.
Once we have developed our criteria for approving funding requests, we will notify the club and allow additional time for members to submit funding requests. If you have already submitted your funding requests, you do NOT need to submit it again; just recognize there will be a delay in receiving a response. Also, we recognize that traditionally we actually fund many of the requests in July/August. However, as we reviewed previously funded projects, we thought Jefferson Middle School was the only one that may have a time-sensitive need for funding that correlates with the beginning of the school year. If there is another funding request that absolutely needs to be funded during this delayed time period, please let me know and the board will discuss how to address the issue.