Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation

Supporting innovative paths to educational success for Lancaster and Lebanon County students is the Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation’s focus. While reading, writing, and arithmetic remain important basics, students need more than these traditional skills to succeed as individuals, employees, community members, and future leaders.

Today’s students need advanced technology, innovative instruction, and specialized resources to reach their potential and beyond. However, limits to federal, state, and local funding can make supporting even the basics difficult. The Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation strives to overcome barriers to providing innovative and enriched learning opportunities for local learners.

Mission: The Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation's mission is to overcome barriers to advances in learning by securing and investing the resources needed to support innovative or enriched educational opportunities for Lancaster and Lebanon County students of all ages.

Vision: The Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation will be the leading advocate of advancing learning through educational support, innovation and enrichment in Lancaster and Lebanon counties.

Guiding Principles

The Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation:

• Supports educational opportunities above and beyond what is currently supported by school/district/IU 13 resources.
• Supports innovative educational opportunities for learners of any age who live in Lancaster or Lebanon counties; however, the priority is to support initiatives that benefit learners served by IU 13 staff or programs or those of its member school districts.
• Actively pursues the financial, material, and human resources needed to achieve its mission.
• Supports educational opportunities with strong potential for broad and/or long-term benefits beyond Foundation funding or with the ability to be replicated.
• Prefers collaborative approaches to achieve its mission.
• Requires that recipients of Foundation funding be accountable for its use, both fiscally and programmatically.

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For more information, please call 717-606-1600 (x1704) or email foundation@iu13.org.

The Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundation is:

• Designated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization by the Internal Revenue Service as a Type 1 Supporting Organization of Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU 13).
• Eligible to receive Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) contributions as a Pennsylvania Department of Economic and Community Development-designated "Educational Improvement Organization."
• A member of the Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Education Foundations and the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce and Industry.