The Carroll Education Foundation is about $55,000 away from meeting its goal for the 2020-2021 school year. That’s especially saying something considering they’ve had to cancel its 2020 CEF Culinary Celebration event earlier this week.
With the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, CEF decided to cancel its culinary “Friday Night Fever” celebration, which was going to be held April 3 at the Southlake Hilton Hotel. CEF Executive Director Kathy Lanier says the organization chose to cancel the event instead of rescheduling it because reproducing the event format was not logistically possible.
“Cancelling the culinary celebration this year was a difficult decision, but together with our executive leadership, I believe we made the only possible decision for the health of our community,” Kathy expresses.
Despite the cancellation, CEF has still raised $495,000 for the school year, which is 90% of its $550,000 goal. Kathy says they’ve been able to raise so much thanks to the generous business community and Dragon families who have supported them so far.
Kathy says the culinary celebration will be replaced with an online auction and raffle on April 3. Kathy expresses that the best way to support CEF during this challenging time is to purchase raffle tickets, bid online and donate to the fund directly.
“We are so thankful for the support of our Dragon community and know that with their help, CEF will reach our goal and be able to fund 11 teachers — one on each campus — for the 2020-21 school year,” Kathy expresses.
To learn how else you can support CEF, visit CarrollEducationFoundation.org.