FOUNDATION OBJECTIVES

1. To facilitate student development and encocurage students to become "life-long learners."
2. To encourage educational excellence through creative teaching
3. To promote student/community partnerships

FUNDED PROJECTS

The Foundation has awarded grants in educational areas throughout the curriculum.  These grants have enabled students, faculty and staff to participate in:

• Dance workshops
• Music programs and trips
• Yearbook and newspaper camps
• Applied arts conferences
• Foreign language seminars

ANNUAL RBEF TELETHON

Since 1989, the Foundation (in cooperation with R-B Library Media Services) has held a Telethon which has become the Foundation's  premiere annual fundraising event.  The Telethon is broadcast on RBTV, the school's educational cable television station to a host of suburban communities.  This fund-raiser owes its success to hundreds of dedicated volunteers - students, alumni, community members, teachers, staff and friends - who have made the Telethon an R-B tradition.  In addition to talented performers, the day-long event has featured celebrities including Chicago radio personalitities and municipal, state and federal officials.  In its first year, the Telethon was awarded a John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award, the only high school event in the country to receive this prestigious honor.  The Telethon is held the second or third Saturday in October. 

GRANT-AWARDS:  PROCESS & POLICIES

Current students, faculty and staff can obtain grant forms through the R-B business office or online at this website under the "Forms" tab.  Student must be sponsored by a faculty member.  Forms must be completed and returned to the business office by  the application deadline (posted annually).  Applications are reviewed by the Foundation committee and grants are awarded at a ceremony each spring.  All applications are considered. 

The Foundation Board encourages grant suggestions and recommendations from student, school employees, alumni and community members.

YOUR SUPPORT IS VITAL

Your personal or corporate contribution to the Foundation does make a difference.  The Foundation has become an R-B institution; students and school employees rely on the Foundation to provide and extra educational advantage.  Contributions of any denomination are welcome.

Any interested individual can join the Foundation.  Meetings are held once a month at the high school.  For information, contact the high school at 708.442.7500.