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Thanks to all who came out and special thanks to Martha Clark Ackermann for these great photos!

Our 3rd Annual Promise Fulfilled Cocktail Reception was a huge success! It was a magnificent evening filled with inspiring speeches, great food and drink, and wonderful music. Thank you to all who continue to support our mission to keep Amanda’s dreams alive. We are humbled by your love and generosity. Our sincere thanks to Martha Clark Ackermann for all these great photos!

The Second Annual Amanda Golf Classic held at the Essex Fells Country Club in Essex Fells NJ was a great success. Thank you to all of our generous sponsors, donors, and volunteers. The money raised will continue Amanda’s mission to provide equality in educational opportunities to kids growing up in undeserved communities. To see more photos, click here.

Shoutout to Martha Ackermann Photos for all the wonderful pictures.

We would like to introduce you to Brian Sarfo, the 2020/2021 Education Law Fellow through Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice.  Brian has been teaching 8th grade students in the Bronx about civics. He has produced a series of videos on voting rights for in class virtual discussions with students. Brian has also shared his pathway to law school video to inspire students to think about law school and a legal career.

A Note from The Amanda Rose Laura Foundation

As many of you know, today was the day that we had planned to host the Foundation’s 3^rd Annual Promise Fulfilled Cocktail Reception. While COVID-19 may have prevented us from getting together with all of you, it has not distracted the Foundation from its Mission to provide valuable resources to students in underserved communities.  Rather than reflexively shrink its funding during this pandemic period of uncertainty, we are proud to say that the Foundation has continued and expanded its funding of programs that perpetuate its Mission.  We recently endowed a second fellowship at Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice, which will allow a Fordham Law student to study and implement ways to improve educational access and opportunity for underserved school children in New York City.  We have also funded a Philadelphia-area educational organization called Restorative Practices in Action (RPIA), which largely focuses on the development of holistic teaching techniques tailored to the low-income and underserved student. In this time of crisis RPIA has, in turn, used its funding to train teachers in remote learning and provide financial assistance to students and their families for grocery and medical bills.  And, apropos of the recent school closings, the Foundation has recently provided funding to the Brick Education Network, a Newark-based charter school organization that has established a meals program for its students who, without their usual school meals, would likely go hungry at home. 

The Foundation’s support of these programs and others that fulfill its Mission will not be deterred.  We wish all of you continued health and well-being through this COVID-19 crisis, and thank you for everything you have done for the Foundation.  To see what we have accomplished through your support, please visit our website, www.arlaurafoundation.org.

Dear Friends,

The Coronavirus pandemic has certainly interrupted our daily lives.  We hope you are all doing everything you can to keep yourself, your loved ones and your neighbors as safe and healthy as possible.  To do its part in that effort, and after much careful consideration, the Board of The Amanda Rose Laura Foundation has decided to cancel this year’s Promise Fulfilled Cocktail Reception that was scheduled for May 1st at the J.W. Marriott Essex House in New York.

We regret we won’t be getting to introduce you to some of the worthy and impressive recipients of our recent grants and scholarships who would have been speaking to you at this year’s Reception. So far this year, the Foundation has funded a new program in the Philadelphia area called Restorative Practices in Action, whose mission is to prepare a community of inner-city teachers to better educate minority youth. The Foundation has endowed three new Amanda Rose Laura Scholars at NJ LEEP, and awarded two other students a stipend for college visits.  We have also endowed a Model UN Scholarship to two needy students at Mount St. Mary Academy, and outfitted new Student Ambassadors at Chicago Math & Science Academy. Please see our 2019 newsletter to see all of the other things we have accomplished in the past year.

The Foundation is grateful for your generosity, and we have no doubt this year’s Cocktail Reception would have been as grand a success as last year’s. Rest assured that the Foundation will not be deterred from continuing its mission to fund extra- and co-curricular programs that provide students in underserved areas with resources they otherwise would go without.  Your continued support despite the cancellation of the event would be ever more meaningful. Please consider making a donation now. 

Additionally, our 2nd Annual Amanda Golf Classic will take place on September 28th at Essex Fells Country Club and we will be sending you more information about that outing in the near future. 

With your help, we will keep Amanda’s dream alive of helping enhance educational opportunities for those in need, one child at a time.

With our deepest gratitude,

Rosemary Laura