The Virginia Education Foundation's mission is
to support Virginia Title I public schools and
qualifying organizations in Virginia that serve the
educational needs of low-income children and eligible
students with disabilities
Over
the past eight years, VEF has donated millions of
dollars of
quality children's books to Virginia schools to support
education
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Danville
Public Schools
VEF has donated
a total of 106,026 new, quality books
valued at $1,736,339 to the Danville
Public School System.
VEF's books have primarily been for
students in their Pre-K
programs, elementary schools,and
middle schools with some
books for their high school students.
VEF's books have helped thousands of
Danville's low-income students each year.
(100% of Danville's students qualify for free
breakfast and lunch.)
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VEF
has donated 92,552 new, quality
books valued at $1,492,458 to the
Lynchburg City Public Schools primarily for
their pre-K, elementary school, and middle
school students with a few books for their high
school students.
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Henry
County Public
Schools
Over
the
past four years, VEF has donated 103,430
new, quality
books valued at $1,672,262 to the
Henry County Public Schools to
support scholastic instruction and
literacy, primarily in their
elementary schools. VEF's
books have helped thousands of Henry
County's low-income students each year.
(100% of Henry County's students qualify for
free breakfast and lunch.)
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Roanoke
City Title I Public Schools
VEF
has
donated a total of 124,235 new, quality
books valued at $2,043,336 to Roanoke
City Public Schools. VEF's
books have helped thousands of Roanoke
City's low-income students each year.
(100% of Roanoke City's students qualify for
free breakfast and lunch.)
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Richmond
City Public Schools
VEF
has donated a total of 137,473 new,
quality
books valued at $2,365,261 to the
Richmond City Public Schools to
support scholastic instruction and grade-level
reading. Each
year, VEF's books benefit over 21,000
low-income students in
Pre-K, elementary school, middle school, and
high school. (100% of
Richmond City's students qualify for free
breakfast and lunch.)
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Harrisonburg
City Public Schools
VEF has
donated 27,994 new, quality books valued
at $474,957 to the Harrisonburg
City Public School system. Thousands
of their low-income students have benefited.
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Hampton
City Public Schools
VEF has
donated a total of 76,857 new, quality
books valued at $1,291,447 to the
Hampton City Public Schools. VEF's
books
support scholastic instruction and grade-level
reading for
thousands of low-income elementary and middle
school students. (100% of Hampton
City's students qualify for free breakfast and
lunch.)
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Pittsylvania
School System
VEF donated a total of 17,646 new, quality
books valued at $257,379 to the
Pittsylvania School System to support literacy and
scholastic instruction for elementary and middle
school students. (100% of Pittsylvania's students qualify for free breakfast and
lunch.)
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Franklin County School System
VEF donated a total of 13,585 new, quality
books valued at $243,711 to the
Pittsylvania School System to support literacy and
scholastic instruction for elementary and middle
school students. (100% of Franklin County's students qualify for free breakfast and
lunch.)
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Henrico
County Title I Schools
VEF has
donated 30,412 new, quality books
valued at $384,196 to Henrico
County Public School students in Title I
classrooms as part of their "Reading
Skills and Strategies" program.
Over 9,000 students (75% of whom are
low-income) in 21 schools have benefitted.
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Louisa
County Schools
VEF
donated 4,300 new, quality books valued at
$67,900 for Louisa County's Title I
elementary schools and middle
school to support grade level reading
for their low-income elementary and middle
school students and for students with IEPs.
Louisa
students with a few of the books donated by
VEF
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Culpeper
County School System
VEF donated a total of 17,646 new,
quality books valued at $257,379
to the Culpeper County School System to
support literacy and scholastic instruction for
elementary and middle school
students.
VEF's
Founder/Director George Beker with a Culpeper
student
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First
Lady
Pam Northam's Back-To-School Tour
VEF
provided support for the assembly and
delivery of boxes of quality children's books to
Title I elementary school classrooms and Head
Start classrooms. The books were
distributed by then-First Lady Pam Northam at
each of the Title I schools and programs she
visited on her state-wide tour.
Pam
Northam reading to a Title I classroom
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Agnor
Hurt
Elementary School Reading Project
VEF donated hundreds
of new, quality books valued at over $8,000
to support the school's reading and
literacy efforts with low-income, Title I
children. VEF's books were also being
used in Agnor Hurt's new Read-Aloud program.
Some of the
books donated to Agnor Hurt by VEF
and
Angor Hurt
students enjoying them . . .
 
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300
After-School Programs
VEF
provided funding to the Virginia
Partnership for Afterschool Programs (VPOST)
to enhance educational outcomes and reading
levels for low-income and disabled students
attending 300 after-school programs
across the Commonwealth. VEF's funding
helped these programs acquire thousands of
quality books.
Boxes of books
given to 300 after-school programs at
the VPOST Conference
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Books
for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
VEF
partnered with the disAbility Resource
Center (dRC) and Virginia's Children First.
VEF gave them several hundred
carefully selected books and other
educational materials for scholastic
instruction with low-income children, deaf
and hard of hearing children, and
mentally-challenged adults.
disAbility
Resource Center's Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Coordinator, ReBecca Bennett, discusses
dRC's literacy and reading programs with VEF
founder, George Beker
Books
for
Farmington Elementary
VEF donated $13,450 of children's
activity books to Farmington
Elementary School in Culpeper to support
their reading and literacy efforts.
  Farmington
students exploring VEF's activity books
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Books
for
Madison Primary
VEF
donated $3,500 of children's educational
activity workbooks to Madison
Primary, a Title I school, to support
their reading and literacy programs
with kindergarten and first grade students.
Assistant
Principal, Jackie Ovalle, meets
with George Beker
to accept VEF's book donation
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Title I public schools and organizations funded or
supported by VEF are committed to
promoting and enhancing children's literacy, school readiness,
grade level reading, and school success for primarily
low-income children in Virginia.
While VEF's grant-making
is typically by invitation,
inquiries concerning support are welcome
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