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The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson and Jackson Public Schools are celebrating 25 years of investing in Jackson’s children. The 25th anniversary celebration will honor the JPS Education Trust Fund’s founders and commemorate the continuing impact it will have in years to come.

The Trust is an endowment that awards annual mini-grants to JPS teachers. It began as a project of the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership and was later transferred to the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson. The Trust has since merged with a similar project of the Junior League of Jackson and continues to be administered by the Community Foundation.

According to Doug Boone, President and CEO of the Community Foundation, “The Education Foundation Trust’s founders had a vision that this fund would provide a permanent way to help enrich JPS classrooms by supporting innovative learning projects that would otherwise go unfunded. Its evolution—coming from the Chamber to the Community Foundation, and the Junior League’s more recent involvement—is a demonstration of the importance of different sectors working together to invest in education as a way to improve our community. We invite the community to join us in observing this milestone.”

The JPS Education Foundation Trust Celebration will be held September 15 at 5:30 PM at the William Winter Archives and History Building located at North and Amite Streets in Downtown Jackson. Speakers at the celebration will include local developer David Watkins and Former Governor William Winter.

Governor Winter in 2003

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Each month, the three restaurants will feature one of the Foundation's Nonprofit Partners for TWO DAYS (the first Tuesday and Wednesday). Everyone who eats at any of the three restaurants during those days and presents the special coupon below will have 10% of the value of their meal donated to that charity's fund at the CFGJ. Just print out the coupon below and eat at Bravo!, Sal & Mookie's, or Broad Street Bakery on the first Tuesday and Wednesday of each month of 2010. We'll have each month's coupon available here on the site. We hope you'll eat out all year to support this effort! If you'd like to receive the coupons via email, send a message to .

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