Give to TIEE because, like all of us at TIEE
• You care passionately about the education of kids;

• You care that kids get the best education whatever their natural talents;

• You believe that schools should be positive places where kids really learn, learn to love learning, and learn to be good people; and

• You believe that schools should accept responsibility for providing the best education possible.

At TIEE, we believe that our job is to teach our students to become the people we would want to have as our neighbors, maybe even our friends.

The Institute for Effective Education is a California non-profit corporation [501[c](3)] in good standing. Since 1972, TIEE has invested in its present and future ability to deliver the highest quality education to the San Diego community. TIEE’s non-profit status means that all revenue is devoted to its program efforts, including direct service, support service, and capitalization. It means that your donation is tax-deductible.

Sound financial practices and planning, multi-use facilities, programs of perennial commendation, caring teachers and therapists, and the senior professionals who can guide and train them comprise the nucleus of TIEE’s service. In making your donation, you can be confident that TIEE will provide quality education to the San Diego community for many, many years.

There are many ways that you can donate to TIEE or arrange for donations to TIEE.

Retailers donate part of their proceeds
Ask the stores at which you shop if they donate part of their proceeds to non-profit organizations or to private schools. Many do. They just need to be asked.

Many employers donate at employee request
Ask your employer to donate a portion of the company’s profits to TIEE. Many will and many already have programs for making donations. They need to know about worthy causes. TIEE’s mission is a worthy cause.

Personal donations can be easy
Consider making a personal donation through payroll deduction and/or the United Way. Even small weekly or monthly donations add up over time.

Consider allowing TIEE to make a monthly charge to your credit card or debit card.

Annual giving plans can give a tax break
Consider an annual giving arrangement. Donations are tax-deductible and many people find that donating to TIEE near the end of the calendar year can be a win-win. TIEE receives the donation and they receive a tax break.

Consider planning for the distribution of your estate.
Marjorie Cook Taylor granted a substantial donation to TIEE that permitted the organization to acquire the property and building that is now Children’s Workshop. The Board of Directors elected to name one of TIEE’s facilities in her honor, so another of TIEE’s schools has come to be called the COOK Education Center. The acquisition of that facility was made possible in part by a grant from the estate of Martha MacCollum.

You may choose to target your gift to any one of TIEE’s four schools.

Children’s Workshop
COOK Education Center
Urban Skills Center
Mt. Helix Academy

You may decide that the best way for you to give is to target a specific event or program at one of TIEE’s schools. Consider underwriting the costs for one of our wish list items.

You may wish to allow TIEE to decide how to use your contribution. Either way, TIEE will be the recipient of your gift and will use it in the way you designate. You will receive a letter from the Executive Director acknowledging your gift, which you can use as evidence for your tax deduction.

Your generous donation can make all the difference

Support the acquisition of essential equipment

• iPod touch and iPad devices, which are needed to facilitate communication for low-language students, to encourage complex task completion through visual prompting, to facilitate student choices of learning activities or reinforcement options, and many other potential uses, cost from $300 to $800
• Minivans and/or compact cars, which are needed to provide transportation to and from vocational and community sites for our students, cost from $18,000 to $25,000
• Apple computers typically cost just under $1000
• Electric piano keyboards cost approximately $600
• Electric and acoustic guitars for beginners cost approximately $200
• Kitchen appliances that help us teach our students important independent living skills cost from $150 to $2000.

Contribute to our student library

• Books for beginning readers
• Books for young readers
• Classics because every library should have them
• Books of American fiction
• Supplementary books for science and social studies classes
• DVDs presenting supplementary information for science and social studies
• Subscription to magazines that encourage children to learn

Contribute to our professional library

• Annual subscriptions for journals in our field typically cost $250
• Professional books in our field range between $25 and $150

Support this year’s activities

• Jerseys for our sports teams; your name could be on them
• Sports equipment of all types
• Buses for field trips typically cost $500
• Help underwrite this year’s musical production by Mt. Helix Academy

Support financial aid for good families who cannot afford to make full payment of tuition

Support our building fund because schools like TIEE’s schools need to multiply.