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Investing Together In Our Students' Future
~ In Memory ... Barry C. O'Connor ~
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A Huge Success - Incredible Talent!
TOMMFest 2010
Tristin Osborne Memorial Music Festival
Loughborough Lake Holiday Park ~ Sydenham
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...Incredible News!
LLF shatters $1 million milestone!
Making Learning Come Alive Endowment Campaign surpasses expectations.
Read all about it - on "Endowment Campaign" page ...
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Welcome!
The Limestone Learning Foundation, the charitable arm of the Limestone District School Board, was created in 1999 to enhance public education. The purpose of the Foundation is to ensure funding for unique and creative learning opportunities in the areas of Literacy & Numeracy, Science & Technology, the Arts, and Innovative Practices.
The Foundation supports the efforts of educators and enhances public education by raising charitable funds from individuals, businesses,  community service organizations, and other friends. Donations cannot be used for regular school expenses like staffing, school renovation or maintenance, school supplies, or transportation - these remain the responsibility of the provincial government in its mandate to fund public education.
Instead, donations to the Limestone Learning Foundation are only used to provide our students with exciting, enhanced learning opportunities through the allocation of approved grants to schools. These grants are given to support learning projects and programs submitted to the Foundations volunteers, Grant Review Teams, and approved by its Board of Directors in the Spring and Fall of each year.
To date, more than $1 million has been granted to over 430 projects in schools and education centres throughout the Limestone District.
The projects funded by the Foundation don't require a great deal of money. In fact, on average, each costs only about $2,000 with a total of more than $100,000 currently being disbursed to Limestone elementary and secondary schools annually for enhanced learning opportunities. But these projects can make a tremendous difference in what and how a child will learn. By providing this funding not available from any other source for these above average learning opportunities, the Limestone Learning Foundation is ensuring the ...
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