Mansfield Education Foundation Granted Tax-Exempt Status
Grant applications available this month.
Win any money in this week’s big lottery jackpot drawing? Perhaps you may want to donate some of your windfall to Mansfield’s newest tax-exempt charity, the Mansfield Education Foundation (MEF). Founded just a year ago by a small group of active Mansfield residents and parents, MEF is hoping to enhance Mansfield schools by providing educators with grants to promote creative and innovative programs. The achievement of the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status as a public charity is both a coup and a result of hard work and perseverance that will allow MEF volunteers the ability to fundraise at a more productive level. “One of the things I felt was missing from Mansfield schools was an education foundation,” said Director Mary Barton-Rau, one of the …
