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Presbyterian Healthcare makes $1.8M in-kind donation to Project L.I.F.T.
Charlotte Business Journal
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Project LIFT Clears $55 Million Goal
$4 million from Knight Foundation boosts total for west Charlotte schools
CharlotteObserver.com
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Project L.I.F.T. Surpasses $55 Million Fundraising Goal
Knight Foundation Pushes Project L.I.F.T Past Goal with $4 Million Gift to Engage Residents in Effort, Provide Laptops for Students
Project LIFT could boost all of CMS
Strategies from this incubator could help other students, too.
Charlotte Observer editorial
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CMS, Project LIFT sign five-year agreement
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education signed a five-year agreement with a local philanthropic coalition Jan. 24 that both sides hope will lead to dramatic reform of schools on the west side of Charlotte.
CMS OKs partnership with Project LIFT
$55 million will go into boosting performance at 8 westside schools.
CharlotteObserver.com
SEVEN TO WATCH | Shaping our region in 2012
Her aim is to get community fired up
Denise Watts, executive director, Project LIFT
CharlotteObserver.com
CMS may partner with donors to run westside schools
CharlotteObserver.com, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012
Project LIFT extends fund drive
$55 million community effort to enrich westside schools is $9 million short.
CharlotteObserver.com, Dec. 02, 2011
Project L.I.F.T. Announces Executive Director
Successful CMS Principal Tapped to Join Effort
July 13, 2011 (Charlotte) – Officials from Project L.I.F.T. announced today they have named Denise Watts as executive director.
Watts, currently the secondary central zone superintendent for CMS, has also served as a middle school principal and teacher. Watts was the North Carolina Middle Level Principal of the Year in 2008-2009. She will report to a board of directors to be named in the coming weeks.
5-year philanthropic effort aims to use targeted funds, focus and flexible rules to turn around west Charlotte schools.
Charlotte Observer Lead Editorial
Philanthropy group's CMS plan promising
Project details for westside students to come on Monday.
Posted: Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011
Ever since members of a new philanthropic group announced last fall they were looking at ways to help Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, there's been great anticipation about what they'd do. On Monday, at West Charlotte High School, they'll tell us. Our advance report? Project L.I.F.T. looks impressive. It has great potential to not only help "lift" student performance among struggling students in Charlotte's westside communities but to become a model for change and success across CMS, the state and nation.
Goal of multimillion-dollar campaign is to boost West Charlotte High and 7 feeder campuses.
By Ann Doss Helms
ahelms@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011
A multimillion-dollar push by Charlotte's wealthiest donors to bolster eight schools in northwest Charlotte launches a renewed quest to unite a fractured community behind public education.