The Fort Thomas Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose purpose  is to enhance the education of students in all five Fort Thomas Independent Schools.

Executive Board

Beth Hudepohl, Chairperson

Holly B. Collinsworth, Vice Chairperson

Lee Weinel, Treasurer

Julie Schaber, Secretary

Laura A. Hinegardner, Capital Campaign Chairperson

Megan Abner
Ron Christian
Patrick Crowley
Stephen Dauer
Ron Dill
Betsy W. Downard
Elgin Emmons
Fred Erschell
Dan Gorman
Kevin Haas
Rob Herfel, M.D.
Amy Hills
Darcy Hoffmann
Shawn Hopper
Frank Meyer
Jerry Noran
Brian Schwalbach
Alan Thomas
Chuck Thompson
Shari W. Thompson

Advisory Board 

Kay Drahmann Acker
William R. Arthur
John Bankemper
Rich Boehne
Judith King Cowgill
Nick Ellison
Clem Fennell, Sr.
Henry E. Pogue, V
Mary Rafferty
William J. Reik, Jr.
Ken Shields
Jack Steinman
Thomas A. Twehues

Jennie King, Executive Director

The Fort Thomas Education Foundation has awarded over $366,000 to teachers and administrators at the Fort Thomas Independent Schools.  Below you will find a video of one of our "grants in action".

Click here for the Woodfill Grants in Action video. 

Annual Appeal 2011

Please support our annual appeal.  Look for information in your recent mail, or donate now online.

Fort Thomas Independent School’s students and teachers benefit from support

For the 2011-12 school year, all 5 schools in the Fort Thomas Independent School District will have over $28,000 in additional funds to purchase new technology and supplies due to the Fort Thomas Foundation Foundation's teacher grant program. Since 2001, the Foundation has awarded over $366,000 in teacher grants for items that are above and beyond the district's operating budget. Money raised through the Foundation's Tailgate Club, annual appeal, dance and employee giving drive help support the teacher grant program. Among this year's grant awards are:

* Digital camera with memory stick to Lisa Birkley of Highlands Middle School for middle school photojournalism for a total of $500;
* Two (2) timpani to Lori Hopkins, music teacher at Highlands Middle and High Schools, for percussion instruction for a total of $3,600;
* Document camera to Norma Lawless of Moyer Elementary for a total of $499;
* Seven (7) Success Maker software licenses to Diana Stratton, principal of Woodfill Elementary, for a total of $6,664;
* 3 flip style video cameras and tripods, as well as shared use of digital cameras granted to the elementary art departments, to Cora Kendall of Moyer Elementary, Julie Bolling and Katie Leftin of Johnson Elementary and Michelle LaMantia of Woodfill Elementary, for the Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) at each of the elementary schools mentioned for a total of $700;
* Thirty (30) digital cameras (to be shared with the STLP groups at each school), fifty (50) software licenses, seventy-five (75) memory sticks to Nikki Everett and Jennifer Flynn, art teachers for Johnson Elementary, Moyer Elementary and Woodfill Elementary, for a total of $8,525;
* Funding towards a 32 channel digital snake for the Performing Arts Center to Jason Burgess of Highlands High School, for a total of $4,253;
* Funding towards production equipment to William Poff of Highlands High School for a student produced football game and half time show, for a total of $3,400.