Great Hearts Academies hosts telethon to fundraise for teachers
Independent Newsmedia
Posted 8/4/20
Great Hearts Academies, which includes Scottsdale Preparatory Academy, announced the first-ever Teacher Excellence Fund Telethon, taking place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 19.
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Great Hearts Academies hosts telethon to fundraise for teachers
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Independent Newsmedia
Great Hearts Academies, which includes Scottsdale Preparatory Academy, announced the first-ever Teacher Excellence Fund Telethon, taking place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 19.
This event, which will livestream on Great HEarts’ YouTube and Facebook pages, will support the Teacher Excellence Fund. This fund provides bonus compensation for Great Hearts teachers across Arizona every December, helping to retain and reward the state’s best teachers.
The event was launched in response to the postponement of the annual Great Hearts Gala, which will take place on Sept. 25, 2021 at Chateau Luxe in north Phoenix, according to a press release.
The telethon will be the primary fundraising vehicle for this year’s annual Teacher Excellence Fund, giving Great Hearts Academies the opportunity to reward the Arizona teachers who transitioned to distance learning and overcoming other obstacles from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last year, the event raised $525,467 for the 2019 Teacher Excellence Fund, which provided 578 Great Hearts Arizona teachers with bonus compensation in December 2019.
“We are proud to be able to find a new and innovative way to support the incredible Great Hearts Arizona teachers,” Erik Twist, Arizona president of Great Hearts, said in a prepared statement.
“This year we had the opportunity to see the talent, resilience and compassion of our teachers as they continued to educate our students at the highest level throughout the pandemic. We know that they deserve our recognition now more than ever, and we look forward to inviting our community to share in that celebration through the telethon.”
Community members can donate by calling into the telethon on Sept. 19, or by making a gift before the event to be recognized on the live-streamed telethon feed. In-kind donations such as catering, drinks and snacks for telethon volunteers are also needed.
To donate, sponsor, or volunteer at the telethon visit gala.greatheartsamerica.org/telethon. Contact Brenna Norris, Major Gifts Officer, at 602-438-7045, ext. 322 or bnorris@greatheartsaz.org for more information.
Great Hearts is a nonprofit network of tuition-free public charter schools dedicated to improving education nationwide through classical preparatory K-12 academies. There are 22 schools and 14,000 students throughout Phoenix.
