Allentown School District Foundation

With a vision for enriched education, the asd Foundation encourages, promotes and supports positive educational experiences for students in the Allentown School District. The Foundation's volunteer board of directors seek individual contributions, Foundation grants, conduit gifts, and other funding such as eitc corporate contributions for programs that promote excellence while recognizing the accomplishments of Allentown's 16000+ students and 2100+ employees. In the 2021-2022 School year, conduit gifts were used to support the century promise and middle School transformation iniatives, dieruff high School (dhs)kiska and troika banquets, dhs stage lighting, marushak outdoor classroom, dhs basketball, dhs and william allen hs(wahs)weight room renovations, wahs soccer, wahs alumni association website, learning dome muhlenberg elementary playground, uniforms and gift cards for students experiencing homelessness, rbi baseball program, and the union terrace elementary School fire assistance.

The Foundation organizes and runs programs within District schools, and also provides funding for programming within the schools. During the 2022-2023 School year, flexible grants were given to the four middle schools and dieruff and allen high schools to support choral and instrumental music, theatre, poetry, and dance programs. The asdf funded the middle School dance lessons and competition and the strings program at raub ms, a literacy volunteer program, national history day, science fair, the renaissance art programs, lcti summer camps, and teacher innovation grants.

Endowed, annual(expendable) and one-time scholarhsips are financial stipends awarded by the Allentown School distirct foundation(asdf)to graduation students to pay for post-secondary education. While the scholarship is awarded to the student, the funds are paid by the asdf directly to the post-secondary institution to be credited to the student's account. To insure awardability, no more than two criteria beyond high School designation are used in determining scholarship receipients may be set. The selection process is at the discretion of the building principal. While donors may determine eligibility criteria, donors may not be involved in the selection of individual scholarship recipients. The asf nor its board members may be involved in any selection process. A minimum of $10,000 in gift(s) is required for a contribution to be considered an endowed scholarship.