The D300 Foundation Believes Community Partnerships Work and Produce Wonderful Results

CARPENTERSVILLE – During the first few months of the new school year, the D300 Foundation for Educational Excellence teamed up with Otto Engineering and the Carpentersville Rotary to turn a vision into a reality for Carpentersville Middle School music teacher Michael Kasper. Kasper’s vision was to take two old closets and transform them into storage space for the D300 Foundation’s Instrument Lending Library and a private practice room for his music students.

This project came to life when Diane Magerko, D300 Foundation trustee, received a very generous donation from Otto Engineering providing all the necessary building supplies and James Olvera, Rotary Club of Carpentersville-Morning volunteered to organize all the labor for this project.  Olvera said, “In addition to our club members we had 2 outstanding contractor volunteers, Brian Lood & Richard Olvera, who did a great job with some of the more challenging tasks that needed to be accomplished. The immediate use of each space was pretty amazing and eye opening to the fact of how much they were actually needed. Again, we are very happy about the success of the project and appreciate the opportunity to be involved”.

Diane Magerko, Fund Development Chair for the Foundation said, “Our partnerships with the local businesses and organizations are so very vital to the Foundation.  When we work together on these types of projects with local businesses and organizations, it brings our communities closer together, and everyone benefits from the outcome”.  Magerko goes on to say, “We would like to thank Otto Engineering – Tom Roeser and Jerry Skowronski and James Olvera -  Rotary Club of Carpentersville-Morning, for all their support and guidance during this project, we could not have done this with out them.”

If you have a musical instrument sitting in the back of your closet or basement, please consider donating it to the D300 Foundation’s Lending Library.  You may drop off your instrument donation, which is tax deductible, at the Central Office in Carpentersville at 300 Cleveland Ave. or call the Foundation for a pick up at 847-551-8475.

The D300 Foundation’s mission is to enhance and extend learning opportunities in all D300 schools. Since the D300 Foundation was founded in 2002, it has awarded nearly one half million dollars in local education grants – all made possible through corporate partnerships, private donations and special fundraisers.

For information about how you can partner with the D300 Foundation and to view some of the project grants we have funded, please visit our website at: http://www.d300foundation.org.