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Education Affinity Group
December 7, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Education Affinity Group
The Education Affinity Group is a peer network of Philanthropy WV members interested or investing in the area of education
Join your colleagues interested or investing in the area of education for a collegial meeting to network, share updates and information, and engage in conversation.
4th Quarterly EAG Meeting:
Guest Speaker: WV Secretary for Education & the Arts, The Honorable Gayle C. Manchin (CLICK HERE for her bio)
Topic: Overview of Developments for early childhood education, arts education, internships, post-secondary programs, STEM education, and more
Date: December 7th Time: 11 AM to 1 PM
Where: Beckley Area Foundation located in the United Bank Building at 129 Main Street, Ste 301, Beckley, WV
Parking: The Beckley Area Foundation is arranging for our guests to use the entire BAF lot behind Quick Prince
Printing on Prince Street. Our thanks to the Beckley Area Foundation for hosting us.
To register, please contact programfellow@philanthropywv.org for more information!
Background:
The Education Affinity Group (EAG) is a peer network and learning group of Philanthropy WV members interested in or investing in education through grants and scholarship programs. Participants are all grantmaking foundations (private, family, community, or corporate), corporate giving programs, and/or individual philanthropists. Philanthropy West Virginia began the EAG in mid-2015 originally chaired by Dr. Jim Denova, Vice President of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. In 2017, Stephanie Hyre, Program Officer of The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation and Adam Sanders, President of the Roy & Gwen Steeley Foundation became co-chairs of the Education Affinity Group. The EAG meets quarterly at different locations in the state with different education expert presenters to identify areas for improving education, collaborative grantmaking, and/or policy/education development in the state of West Virginia.
Purpose:
Through each community, region, district; the Education Affinity Group meets quarterly to participate in presentations by education leaders and to discuss different ways on improving the short-term and long-term education issues and needs of our students our state (from the local to the state level) with the leaders from the students, to board members, to teachers, and parents of the children. At the heart of the EAG, it is about making sure the investments made by foundations, corporate giving programs, and individual philanthropists provides our students now and throughout the future with the best education for life-long success. Philanthropy WV’s staff provide coordination of the meetings, programs, and speaker selection as well as identify areas for philanthropic collaborations to enhance the education system in the state.