"So far, Mt. Lebanon’s capital campaign has raised about $1.1 million in pledges, gifts, goods and services, according to Maggie Schmidt, the district’s campaign counsel and veteran of dozens of such efforts on behalf of nonprofit organizations."
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| Carol Walton and Jo Posti, Co-Chairs |
http://www.thealmanac.net/article/20150821/NEWS/150829990
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$900,000 of the $1,100,000 came from the district itself, but that just a detail
We keep hearing and reading about how great a MTLSD education is but it seems graduates can add and subtract or read and comprehend a very simple financial statement.
9:51 correction - can't add and subtract
From a story in the Post Gazette on the Campaign fundraiser.
"“This was a new endeavor for school districts. This wasn’t something we’d ever undertaken,” superintendent Timothy Steinhauer told board members, most of whom weren’t on the board in 2013."
Really Dr. Steinhauer?
First, you hired and paid a pretty penny toone of the country's leading PR firms, Pursuant Ketchum, to lead this effort.
Second, you hired at the cost of several hundred thousands of dollars in salary and benefits to manage this program. Those salaries were very top of the market.
Third, you paid top dollar for design work that few people ever saw. Why not have used a senior art student to design any literature. Their efforts would be excellent portfolio pieces for their college applications.
Fourth, Posti is supposedly a PR/Marketing maven, this isn't her first foray in communicating to the public.
Fifth, the MTL Foundation for Education has been around for years, so this isn't by any means a first for the district to raise money.
It has been screwed up from the beginning in my opinion.
When is Eugene paying us a visit?
http://www.paauditor.gov/
Normally Dr. Steinhauer when any business enters into a new venture they monitor it very closely to make sure it's bringing in the money or reaching the goals they expected. They also keep the board and the stockholders (taxpayers in your case) appraised of the results.
Woah be it to the CEO that tries to hide the results from the people that own the company.
Feigned inexperience is a poor excuse.
Correction @ 7:29... woe
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