Advancing Knowledge Through Partnerships
As a result of a case study of inter-jurisdictional cooperation in education by the Richmond First Club, the Mathematics & Science Center Foundation was formed in 1989. Their mission is Advancing Knowledge Through Partnerships. The purpose of the Foundation is to solicit corporate, foundation, and private contributions to supplement the Center’s annual funding by the member school divisions. The Center and Foundation updated their names and logo in 2007, becoming the MathScience Innovation Center and its Foundation. In particular, the MSiC Foundation, a 501(c)(3), seeks to promote the advancement and further the aims and purposes of the Center, through the development and application of financial resources to the programs of the Center and through such other activities as are suited to that end. The Foundation was set up to accept, administer, apply and use property acquired by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise in accordance with any of the purposes and objects of the Foundation that may be specified by the donor of any such property.
Funding has enabled major additions in infrastructure that enhance educational STEM opportunities for both professional development for Central Virginia educators and students.
President
Shawn Nicholson
SMN Square
Vice President
Treasurer
David O. White, EdD
King William County Public Schools
Secretary
Lucy Joseph
Altria
Members
Robby Demeria
Phlow USA
Hollee Freeman, PhD
MathScience Innovation Center
Maria Pitre-Martin, PhD
Petersburg City Public Schools
Hal B. Miles, Sr
Petersburg City Public Schools
Thomas Millisor
UNOS