IPA Foundation

Good schools start with good principals. A principal is an educator, a leader, a mentor, and much more. But one thing is certain: good principals are a key factor for good schools. Research has found that the most significant educational advances happen in the buildings where students and administrators interact.

And that’s our goal: to help principals across the state become the best they can be, by giving them tools to expand their horizons, learn from each other and help them interact more effectively with students.

The Illinois Principals Foundation was established to fund research and monographs in the areas of school improvement, educational leadership and the principalship. It also allows continuing education opportunities for the best principals in Illinois to become mentors and trainers for other principals.

Foundation Goals

• Increase the skills and base knowledge of school administrators
• Provide for continuing education for school administrators
• Maintain a current professional development/resource library
• Provide funding for research activities related to the principalship
• Conduct research on school improvement, leadership and principalship
• Support publication of monographs on best practices
• Maintain and distribute articles to principals at no charge
• Develop a cadre of speakers and writers

How Can You Help?
Support of generous contributors like you enables us to provide the programs that help support and encourage principals of schools all over Illinois. This support, in turn, allows principals to improve their schools and teaching environments. The investment you make today will help your community and those all over Illinois for generations of students.

Levels of Support

Summa Cum Laude ($10,000)

• 6” x 8” plaque on Summa Cum Laude section of Foundation Donor Board in IPA office. May be of your design including name and logo
• Summa Cum Laude recognition memento for your office
• Company name, logo and picture in newsletter month donation is given
• Name, logo and link on our website
• Name on Donor Board at Principals and Assistant Principals Conference

Magna Cum Laude ($5,000)

• 4” x 6” plaque on Magna Cum Laude section of Foundation Donor Board in IPA office including company name and logo
• Magna Cum Laude recognition memento for your office
• Company name in newsletter
• Name and logo on website
• Name on Donor Board at Principals and Assistant Principals Conference

Cum Laude ($2,500)

• Company name on Cum Laude section of Foundation Donor Board in IPA office
• Cum Laude recognition memento for your office
• Company name in newsletter
• Name on Donor Board at Principals and Assistant Principals Conference

Presidents Circle ($250)

• Company name on Presidents Circle Board in IPA Office
• Company name in newsletter

Other Donations

• Company name in newsletter

For more information about contributing to the Illinois Principals Foundation, please contact:

Jason Leahy, Executive Director
Illinois Principals Association
2940 Baker Drive
Springfield, IL 62703
www.ilprincipals.org
jason@ilprincipals.org
217-299-2164