Alliance for Education Community Blog: Give BIG June 23

Friday, June 17, 2011

Give BIG June 23

The Alliance for Education and The Seattle Foundation team up for the GiveBIG Challenge

On June 23, 2011, there's an exciting event that will amplify the impact of your gift to us.

GiveBIG is a community-wide giving challenge created by The Seattle Foundation that will increase the size of your donation to us. This new, one-day, online charitable giving event will rally together our community on behalf of the amazing nonprofit organizations in King County

Mark your calendar! Donate to the Alliance for Education between 7 a.m. and midnight on June 23.

Thank you in advance for giving big. With your help we can ensure that all students in Seattle Public Schools are prepared for college, career, and life.

PS: You can learn more about GiveBIG online at www.seattlefoundation.org/GiveBIG.

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About the Alliance

The Alliance for Education is an independent non-profit supporting Seattle Public Schools. Since 1995, the Alliance has raised and invested over $130 million to address systemic needs in the district. Through fundraising, advocacy and community engagement, the Alliance acts as a strategic partner and “critical friend” to SPS. The Alliance cultivates the practice of charitable giving to education causes in Seattle and directs resources into three specific areas: building leadership capacity within the district, promoting excellence in teaching, and expanding rigorous academic offerings.

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Rules of Engagement*

· We increase our communities’ sense of belonging and build a common vision for public schools

· We shift our conversations from the problems within our communities to the possibility of communities

· We commit to create a future for our communities that is distinct from the past

· Our power is in the asking of the questions, not in having the answers

We are committed to upholding the following values for meaningful dialogue:

I. INVITATION: the means through which hospitality is created. Honors the importance of choice, the necessary condition for accountability.

II. POSSIBILITY: an act of imagination of what we can create together, and it takes the form of a declaration made publicly.

III. OWNERSHIP: asks citizens to act if they were creating what exists in the world

IV. DISSENT: creates an opening for commitment; explores people’s doubts and resignation

V. COMMITMENT: a promise with no expectation or return

VI. GIFTS: the essence of valuing diversity and inclusion over deficiencies

*Referenced from Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging