2013 – $235,793.27

In 2013, the love for I Love Lucy, Live on Stage continued. Greenway Court Theatre’s production went on a national tour!

After-school drama, dance, and film classes were thriving, along with in-school film, Shakespeare, poetry, and dance classes. Collectively, totaling $106,248 in programming from Greenway.

To ensure the development of Fairfax High School was in qualified hands, the annual salary of the Director of Development was $49,500.

The baseball team used $2,000 for the essentials—uniforms, balls, helmets, and bats—while the softball team spent $4,870 on netting for their batting cage, uniforms, equipment, and to repair a faulty fence. The volleyball team used $3,733.28 on poles for outdoor volleyball courts. The girls’ soccer team needed $2,680 of seed money for fundraising efforts, uniforms, and equipment, and the boys’ soccer team used $3,500 for uniforms and equipment. The athletic department helped out every team when they got a new scoreboard for $3,500 and treated the wear and tear of the field with $10,000.

Two runs of the school newspaper, the Colonial Gazette, cost $1,140 for the Journalism Club, but their reporting skills were worth the expense.  They ran stories about students and staff who are part of the Melrose Trading Post and Greenway Institute for the Arts.

Speaking of “worth it,” the teachers and staff were shown some well-earned gratitude with a $1,000 Teacher Appreciation Day. They also enjoyed a $2,000 holiday party and an additional renovation of the teachers’ lounge, costing $994.99.

$1,000 went to gatorade and snacks for student participants in Students Run for LA, an organization that challengers “underserved secondary students to experience the benefits of goal-setting, character development, adult mentoring and improved health by providing them with a truly life-changing experience: The training for and completion of the Los Angeles Marathon.” Yeah, they certainly earned those snacks.

The class of 2013 used $1,000 to pay for their senior packages and $1,000 for a graduation ceremony.

Fairfax High was also helped out with staffing, with $31,779 going to principal discretionary accounts for staffing and WASC. $7,728 went to the WASC Coordinator. The WASC, or Western Association of Schools and Colleges, is an organization that determines whether a public high school can achieve accreditation following a self-study.

Lastly, to keep the campus looking beautiful, $2,100 afforded Fairfax High some additional gardener hours.

Clearly, business at the Melrose Trading Post was booming. In fact, the flea market was listed #18 on Trip Advisor’s 2013 list of “100 Top Things to do in Los Angeles.” Attendance skyrocketed, reaching thousands of patrons per week.

The brain behind the organization also got a shout-out, with the unique partnership of a public school and Greenway Arts Alliance featuring in the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Winter 2013 issue. Go, Greenway, go!