STAMFORD, CT — September 7, 2018 — Since 1996, the Stamford Public Education Foundation (SPEF) has been a local non-profit organization serving thousands of students and their families. The Fairfield County’s Community Foundation (FCCF) has awarded SPEF a $25,000 grant to support its operating costs; ultimately, allowing the organization to continue to enrich the community.…
STAMFORD, CT — August 27, 2018 — When kindergarten students enter their classroom for the first day of school, how do teachers know how best to support each child? For the 2018—2019 school year, to date 1,009 Kindergarten students have registered and will be entering one of the thirteen elementary schools in the Stamford Public School…
STAMFORD, CT—June 25, 2018 — As the school year draws to a close and the days get warmer, the campus at Julia A. Stark Elementary School was in need of some “sprucing up.” On Friday, June 15, approximately 70 volunteers from AXA Investment Mangers (AXA IM), headquartered in Greenwich, CT, shed their business attire in…
STAMFORD, CT — June 9, 2018 — Just shy of six years ago a varsity football quarterback from the Westhill High School headed off to Vermont for college. Just days later he met with a tragic accident and passed away. The Peter Cernansky Memorial Golf Tournament and Dinner was established by his parents to honor…
STAMFORD, CT– May 22, 2018 – The Stamford Public Education Foundation (SPEF), a local non-profit organization that has served thousands of students and their families since 1996, today announced that Fairfield County’s Community Foundation has awarded SPEF a $25,000 grant to support its operating costs. SPEF provides programs and resources that elevate student, educator and parent…
STAMFORD, CT – April 30, 2018 – As the Stamford Public Education Foundation (SPEF)’s Service-Learning mentoring sessions came to an end for the year, approximately 110 fourth grade students from Davenport Ridge Elementary School gathered for a culminating community-service project on Monday, April 23rd. Their mentors, from J.M. Wright Technical High School, constructed a tool shed…