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Pictured: David Moriarity, RRCNA Board
President; Jady Johnson, RRCNA Executive Director; M. Trika
Smith-Burke, Chair, RRCNA Development Committee; Kevin Buck and Paul Brown, Deluxe Corporation
Foundation
Deluxe Corporation FoundationSince 1954, the Deluxe Corporation Foundation has contributed nearly
$80 million to human service, education, and culture organizations
that serve the communities where Deluxe Corporation facilities are
located. Its “Reading is For Life” supports literacy programs in
elementary schools with demonstrated high concentrations of
first-graders at-risk of not learning to read and write at grade
level. For more information on the Deluxe Corporation
Foundation "Reading Is For Life" program, please visit
http://www.deluxe.com/dlxab/deluxe-foundation.jsp.
The Deluxe Corporation Foundation's association with Reading
Recovery began in 2004. Thanks to the positive history Deluxe
Corporation Foundation had in funding Reading Recovery in four local
schools, their Contributions Committee decided to expand its support
to a national level by funding $15,000 scholarships for training
Reading Recovery teachers leaders.
In 2004, Connie Dickison, a member of RRCNA and former Reading
Recovery teacher and curriculum director for Wilton Center School in
Peotone, IL, approached the Deluxe Corporation Foundation about
initial funding for Reading Recovery in the district. Because Deluxe
Corporation is headquartered in St. Paul, MN, Connie asked Karen
Odegard, teacher leader in St. Paul, to host Deluxe representatives
at a behind-the-glass session. That session led to a visit by the
president of Deluxe Corporation Foundation to see Reading Recovery
in action and eventually to a grant award to the Peotone School
District for training two Reading Recovery teachers. The Foundation
also invited Odegard to apply for monies to fund Reading Recovery in
St. Paul, which she successfully did. Later, the Deluxe
Corporation asked RRCNA to notify schools about its interest in
funding similar programs near its other corporate facilities. Those
efforts resulted in funding for proposals submitted by Mary Ellen
LaChance, Wisconsin teacher leader, and Catherine Compton-Lilly,
trainer. As a result of these positive experiences fueled by
the sharing of information among sites that received the Deluxe
funding, and because Reading Recovery matches their charitable
goals, the Deluxe Corporation's contributions committee awarded the
exciting $100,000 grant announced at the February national
conference.
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