The Give-Back Years
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The three designed their proposal last winter and presented it to the school-district superintendent in May. Within three months, the district had approved it. This fall, the triumphant triumvirate filed for nonprofit status and formed a board of directors. The board appointed Liz Anderson, an eighth-grade teacher and hockey coach, as executive director. Anderson, 27, is technically young enough to be the Woods' granddaughter. "From the first time they met, Liz and Denise have been clicking," says Kennett Middle School principal John Carr.
"The beauty of the program is that it won't cost the school board or taxpayers anything," says John Wood, who headed fund raising at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles before he retired. The trio has tapped foundations and private donors for the $50,000 they have budgeted for 1999--mostly to pay the salary of Anderson and a program coordinator. The rest is a gift--from one generation to another.
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