INTRODUCING ROGER PERCY, NEW HAAS FOUNDATION BOARD PRESIDENT It is my pleasure to serve as the Board President on behalf of the Saul and Dayee G. Haas Foundation. Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting HEAP members, who are also in most cases school fund coordinators. What a delight to be among kindred spirits. Working together, the Haas Foundation and your schools can accomplish a great deal. I have three goals for the Foundation this year: To raise awareness about the Haas Foundation. Please help us, by linking to our Web site from your school site, PTA Web sites, etc. To implement our first community fundraising campaign “Give Secondary Students a Chance!”, to meet the increased matching funds demand and also to begin serving the schools that have been on our waiting list- some for as long as three years. To continue to increase community involvement through volunteering with the Foundation. In our first year of using the talents of program volunteers, we saved over $7,000. Fifteen volunteers contributed over 400 hours of time last year. I look forward to meeting many of you this year. If you are a new school fund coordinator, I urge you to attend an orientation session. I believe you will find it invaluable as you work to maximize the possible resources available for your students.

GIVE SECONDARY STUDENTS A CHANCE! – First Annual Community Appeal Campaign The Haas Foundation kicked off its first fundraising campaign on December 5th. The Foundation currently serves 647 schools– only one-half of the secondary schools in Washington State. Our current financial capacity limits our ability to reach out to every school that would like to receive Haas Foundation support. Forty-two years ago, we started helping students at a single school in Seattle (Garfield High School). The Foundation has grown to over $370,000 in annual disbursements statewide, without ever having a major fundraising effort. It is a remarkable accomplishment of our Board and the Foundation. However, to achieve our ultimate goal – to provide funding to meet the immediate needs of students within all the secondary schools in the state– we are appealing to the community to help us raise funds. Our goals for this year’s Annual Community Appeal Campaign, “Give Secondary Students a Chance!” are two-fold: 1) Raise awareness about the Haas Foundation and 2) Raise needed funding. Specifically, we need our 39 volunteer campaigners to raise over $30,000. This money will subsidize the growing demand for one-to-one student support with matching grants for schools, and will allow us to add schools from our waiting list to the grant program. Please let us know if you are able to help us move forward by participating in this campaign, either as a campaigner or a donor. Your participation is crucial to our success. The Haas Foundation also welcomes company campaign teams of 4 to 6 people. Should you or your company like to participate in this year’s Give Secondary Students a Chance! campaign, please call or e-mail Mr. Yoshikazu Funato for details. He can be reached at 206 370-6714, or mail to: development@haasfoundation.org. Thank you, Joel Groen 2005-2006 Campaign Chair, Hass Foundation Board Member Yoshikazu Funato, “Kazu” Associate Campaign Director   Adobe PDF Version   Student Artwork for Donor Plaques We need 200 student-created pieces of artwork needed from secondary students for donor recognition plaques. We would appreciate it if you could send us some of your students’ masterpieces. Donors who give more than $250 during the campaign period (December 5, 2005 to February 28, 2006) will receive plaques honoring their commitment to the Haas Foundation. Artwork, poetry, and other writing will be framed with an engraved donor name tag. The author or artist’s name, grade level, and school name will be on the back of plaques, if this information is provided to us. Artwork Details: 8.5”x 11” maximum size Two-dimensional Not to be returned. Send via U.S. mail by January 31, 2006 to Saul and Dayee G. Haas Foundation 925 Fourth Ave, Suite 2900, Seattle, WA. 98104 Attention: Kazu Funato, Development Director Optional: provide student’s name and grade level Required: school name If you have any questions please contact Yoshikazu Funato (Kazu), Development Director, development@haasfoundation.org, (206) 370-6714.

Haas Foundation Newsletter

December 20, 2005 Educator Edition

Leverage Haas Funds with Other Resources Here are some ideas for resources that may help your school maximize its matching grant monies – and perhaps even raise funds beyond that level. Community Support...One Family at a Time A parent was in her child’s school offce when she overheard the enthusiastic response from the school’s Haas Fund coordinator, who had just opened her scorecard letter and check for the year. The parent asked what the Haas Foundation does, and really wanted to understand how the program works. Upon hearing how the school uses the matching funds, the mother (a real estate agent) committed to donating $25 to their school’s matching fund for each house she sold this school year. The Safeway Foundation This foundation supports a variety of worthy causes in the following four areas: Hunger Relief, Education, Health and Human Services, and Special Needs. For more information, please contact in writing: Cherie Myers The Safeway Foundation Public Affairs-Seattle 1121 124th NE Bellevue, WA 98005 (Allow two weeks for a response.) Washington Mutual The WaMoola for Schools program supports K-12 schools. All Washington Mutual employees and customers can enroll in the program, picking a school to support. They earn points for their for their designated school every time they use their Washington Mutual Visa® Check Card for everyday purchases, such as buying groceries, going to the movies or buying a cup of coffee. At the end of the year, Washington Mutual will convert the points into a donation. Schools can use the money for whatever they want. Washington Mutual imposes no spending guidelines or restrictions. For more information please follow these links: Washington Mutual The WaMoola for Schools program

Haas School Fund Orientation Sessions This winter, we will offer orientation sessions at our Seattle offce. These training sessions fulfill one of the requirements listed for the year-end reporting process. New Haas School Fund coordinators are required to either attend an orientation session in Seattle or to view the PowerPoint tutorial on the Web site, located in the blue section of the private school site. The good news is that the orientation sessions in Seattle will be small-group sessions— allowing your individual questions to be addressed in a casual setting. Space is limited, so you must send in your RSVP no later than one week prior to the meeting to Sue Russell, School Fund Manager at: staff@haasfoundation.org. Returning coordinators are also welcome at the Seattle orientation sessions, but if you have already attended a live session, or viewed last year’s PowerPoint tutorial, it is not required that you do so again. To stay on top of program changes, we urge all coordinators to review the updated PowerPoint tutorials on the Web site every school year (to be updated by December 15 annually). We invite you to bring your brown bag lunch and your questions to one of these sessions: Dates/Times: Conference Room Number Spaces Available Thursday, January 26, 2006 10 20 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10 20 11:30 am – 1:00 pm As an added bonus, representatives from the Sonics and iSoldit! will provide information on matching grant fundraising opportunities, with either a representative at each session, or information packets. Location for sessions: Preston, Gates & Ellis, 925 Fourth Avenue, 29th Floor, Seattle, WA 98104-1158. Parking is available at Jerry’s Budget Garage, 801 Fourth Avenue. The Foundation will only validate parking stubs from Jerry’s Budget Garage, located across from The Rainier Club. From the left Greg Loomis, Wendy Ross, Mark Muxen, Maureen Wineland, Bonnie Hilory, Kim Lubin, Sharon McConnel, Tracy Cusack, Kate Cook, Shawn John, Rod Luce, Heath Tayon, John Welsh, Gene Nelson. Other HEAP members not in the picture are Dorothy Ferguson, Toni Hink le, Richard Jones, Steve Stein, Debbie Williams. The Haas Educator Ambassador Program (HEAP) This is a heap o’ good for the schools! Currently, eighteen educators who are passionate about the impact of the Haas Foundation in their schools are serving in this new program. HEAP is a volunteer program, developed to advise and guide the direction of the Haas School Fund and assist the Haas Foundation in three new areas: Increasing the visibility of the Haas Foundation throughout the state; Identifying potential Board members and donors; and planning a statewide fundraiser on behalf of the Saul and Dayee G. Haas Foundation within the next two years. There are two representatives each from nearly all educational service districts across the state serving as ambassadors. We are still looking for a representative from both ESD #101 (Spokane) and ESD #112 (Vancouver). If you would like to join with the Foundation in helping schools, please let Bonnie Hilory know, at: bhilory@haasfoundation.org. Kudos to Bellingham High School who held a Penny Drive during homecoming week, raising $826 towards the Saul Haas matching grant program.