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Over the years, the non-profit, all-volunteer Ventura Education Partnership (VEP) has worked to provide the Ventura Unified School District with the extras that help maintain standards of excellence in the classroom. We have raised thousands of dollars for district services and programs in the form of teacher and staff grants.

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  Special Grant Opportunity   



Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Special Grants

In a desire to support art, music, theater and dance programs for all students in the Ventura Unified School District, grant applications are being accepted for one-time funds generated by
the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy benefit concert in April 2013. Applications will be reviewed through a blind process, by a committee of volunteers who do not represent any school or district program. Applications will be considered based on: value of proposed activity for students, number of students impacted, durability of impact or program, and demonstrated need.

Who May Apply?
Teachers and other staff from existing Visual and Performing Arts programs at any Ventura Unified School District school may apply. Limit of one application per program at each individual school site. Multiple staff-members may collaborate on a department-wide application for greater success.

Application Deadline
Applications must be received no later than 4pm on July 1, 2013 in the Ventura Education Partnership mailbox at the VUSD Education Service Center (255 W. Stanley Ave.). Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted. Applications may not be submitted electronically.

Download the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Special Grant Application here (Word file). or PDF file.

Thank you for supporting the arts!  
Ventura Education Partnership and Ventura Unified School District would like to thank our community for generously supporting the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Benefit Concert, held at Ventura High School on April 13.  The sell-out crowd helped to raise approximately $55,000 that will fund art, music, dance and theater programs in VUSD schools.  VEP and VUSD greatly appreciate the partnership of the City of Ventura's Office of Cultural Affairs in helping to plan and publicize the concert, and the generous financial support of all of our sponsors.

At the request of the band members, $10,000 will be allocated between the music programs at Ventura and Buena High Schools, and Cabrillo, Anacapa, Balboa and DATA Middle Schools to fund sheet music purchases and instrument maintenance and repair; each school will receive approximately $1700.  The concert's title sponsors, Jordan and Sandra Laby, directed that their donation be dedicated to the Harmony Project. The remaining funds, approximately $40,000, will be awarded through a competitive grant process that will be open to all visual and performing arts teachers within VUSD.  The deadline for submitting a grant for consideration will be July 1, 2013.  A committee of community members will review the applications and determine the funding awards. 

Ventura Education Partnership is a community-based, non-profit organization, directed by an all-volunteer board, that supports and enriches education in all Ventura public schools.  VEP, through its Arts Collaborative, strives to enrich student lives with art, music and theater programs that will impact them long after they have graduated.  This support would not be possible without the generous participation of our entire community.  Again, we thank the members of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy for donating their time and talents to perform this benefit concert and the Ventura community for selling-out the auditorium and "rattling them bones" for a great cause!

Dr. Trudy Tuttle Arriaga, VUSD Superintendent
Sabrena Rodriguez, Concert Planning Committee Chair, VEP Executive Board Member
Kay Giles, VEP President
 
Thank You to our Sponsors:

Premier Sponsor $5000
Jordan & Sandra Laby, New West Symphony for Harmony Project

Mambo Swing Sponsors- $1000
Sespe Consulting, John & Angie Hecht
Bimi Santo
Dr. Thomas F. Golden
Mary Haffner
Coast Water Solutions, Kathy Meyer
Access Information Protected/Sheeler Moving 
Dr.’s Patrick & Estela Diesfeld

Jumping Jive Sponsors- $500
Barber Automotive Group, Barbara Meister
Re/Max Gold Coast Realtors, Fred Evans
Carl Howe & Lucien Lacour
Dr. Bryant & Linda Lum
Patagonia, Malinda Chounaird
Dr. Moustapha & Joanne Abou-Samra
Lou & Beverly Cunningham
Players Casino, Bill Kracht
John and Kathy Walker

Call of the Jitterbug Sponsors- $250
The Watermark, Mark Hartley
Community Bank, Peter Favaro
Ellyn Dembowski, Realtor

Calloway Boogie Sponsors $100
Coastal Postal, Justin Dreyfuss
Buenaventura Art Association, Sharon Taylor
VUSD Classified Management Association

In-Kind Sponsors-
City of Ventura
Ventura County Star
Gold Coast Broadcasting
Island Packers
Seasons Catering
The Watermark
Your child and the 
state budget crisis

Your Child and the State Budget Crisis from CAPS-TV on Vimeo.

Ventura Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Trudy Arriaga and Assistant Superintendent Joe Richards discuss the state budget crisis. 

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