A Collier County Alumnus Giving Back

The Education Foundation’s 2010-11 Grant Chair is home grown. Lenore Brakefield, an attorney with Bond, Schoeneck & King P.A., went to Naples Park Elementary, Pine Ridge Middle and graduated from Barron Collier High School. Her mother is a teacher in Collier County Public Schools and Lenore began her own career teaching elementary school and directing an afterschool program.

Lenore has served on the grant committee for years by reading and scoring all of the online Connect with a Classroom teacher grant requests. When asked if she would chair the committee, she did not hesitate. “I support education because I believe it is the key to success,” says Lenore. “Teachers make a difference in a student’s life! The projects and lessons funded through Connect with a Classroom are the types of opportunities that students remember for the rest of their lives.”

Lenore shared grant requests with her colleagues at Bond, Schoeneck & King. Several of them funded teachers’ grant requests. By sharing her passion for this work, more classrooms and students will benefit from enhanced lessons.

Thank you, Lenore! You have impacted classrooms from one end of the county to the other. You “Got on the Bus” and invited others to join you.