Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation Sets Fundraising Record

Birmingham AL

28 September, 2020

10:27 AM

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MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL — Despite having to cancel its marquee fundraiser this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation raised a record-setting $508,534 in fiscal year 2020. Foundation director Rachel Weingartner is in her first year at the helm of the organization, and said the obstacles the foundation had to endure toward the end of the fiscal year were overcome by the generosity of the community. "We are really proud of the fundraising efforts last year, particularly because several of our campaigns were in their second and third years, and I think we could attribute a lot of our success last year to the growth of those campaigns," Weingartner said in a statement. Although the foundation's main fundraiser, the Mountain Brook Elementary Track Meet, was canceled this spring, individual donations increased. The foundation's signature campaigns include Give 180, which encourages families to give $1 for each day their student receives instruction from MBS, and the Grandparents Club. Funds generated from these campaigns allow the foundation to fulfill its mission of mobilizing community support and resources for the academic improvement of the school system. The foundation was formed in 1992 to raise supplementary funds for schools and has awarded more than $7.1 million since its inception.