The mission of the foundation is to encourage, promote and support innovative educational experiences for students in the allentown school district.

Education

With a vision for enriched education, the asd foundation encourages, promotes and supports innovative educational experiences for students in the allentown school district. The foundations volunteer board of directors seeks individual contributions, foundation grants, and other funding for unique programs that promote excellence while recognizing the accomplishments of allentowns 17000 students and 2300 employees. A volunteer literacy program is new in 2016-2017 and joins a suite of enriching programs that range from artist residencies and teacher innovation grants to a science fair, academic showcase at years end, a latin dance competition, a baseball drive program, national history day participation, and allentown adventures. The foundations annual high notes gala is a student production attended by civic and community leaders, parents, and educators. In 2016-2017 5,332 students participated in foundation programs and the community recognized the work of the foundation with the leonard pool impact award given by the united way of the greater lehigh valley. endowed, annual expendable and one-time scholarships are financial stipends awarded by the allentown school district foundation asdf to graduating students to pay for post-secondary education. While the scholarship is awarded to the student, the funds are paid by the asdf directly to the post-secondary institution to be credited to the students account. To insure awardability, no more than two criteria beyond high school designation are used in determining scholarship recipients may be set. The selection process is at the discretion of the building principal. While donors may determine eligibility criteria, donors may not be involved in the selection of individual scholarship recipients. The asdf nor its board members may be involved in any selection process. A minimum of 10,000 in gifts is required for a contribution to be considered an endowed scholarship.