Thank you for supporting our mission to prepare 100% of our graduating students for success in college and their communities.

Support Leadership Public Schools

Tour a School: Want to see real inspiration and success in our urban public schools? Please join us on one of our regularly scheduled tours of LPS-Richmond or LPS-Hayward. Contact Ruth Herring in the LPS Development Office for a list of tour dates and times.

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Thank you for choosing to make a difference in the lives of low-income students throughout the Bay Area today. Every gift to Leadership Public Schools has a big impact:

$100,000 can support our intensive accelerated literacy program in all four LPS schools.
$50,000 can fund a technology lab and a specialized technology trainer.
$20,000 can fund participation in the annual Stanford Leadership Retreat for an incoming 9th -grade class.
$10,000 can provide textbooks for an entire grade level of students at an LPS campus.
$5,000 can provide a library of essential books and resources.
$2,500 can provide support for an experienced athletics coach.
$1,000 can fund one student’s sophomore year college tour.
$500 can provide a student with 25 hours of one-on-one tutoring.
$100 can provide resources for English Language Learners.

More Information:
To learn more about how you can make a gift to LPS, including appreciated securities, please contact Development Officer Ruth Herring: rherring@leadps.org; (510) 830-3780, ext. 215.  All gifts to LPS are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

Corporate & Foundation Supporters
LPS gratefully acknowledges the support of the following corporations and foundations in 2010:

Association for Continuing Education
Bank of America Foundation
Citi Foundation
S. H. Cowell Foundation
Dodge & Cox
Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Foundation
Doris & Donald Fisher Fund at Schwab Charitable Trust
Full Circle Fund
Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation
NewSchools Venture Fund
Reach-A-Star Foundation
Rogers Family Foundation
Shinnyo-En Foundation
Sobrato Family Foundation
Springcreek Foundation
State Farm

Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN): 731643646

Tax-Exempt Status:
Leadership Public Schools is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Non-profit tax-exempt letter from the IRS

Our Annual Reports and Financial Information are available online.