Stars in our schools is now open! Show your appreciation for the teachers and staff who make a difference. Make a gift to AEF in their honor, and we’ll let them know that they’ve been recognized with a donation in their name.

Step One: Choose Your Stars

Think of the teachers and staff members you would like to recognize and decide how much you would like to donate in their honor.

Step Two: Make Your Donation

Click the Donate Now button below select your donation amount.

$25
$50
$100
$200
Other

Recipients will be notified that a gift was made in their honor, but the amount of your donation will remain confidential. To help offset AEF’s printing and delivery costs, please add $1.00 per recipient to your donation. Simply use the “Other”amount field. For example, if you are making a $50 donation and honoring two teachers, enter $52.00.

Step Three: Tell Us Who You’re Honoring

During checkout, you’ll be asked to provide the names of up to five AEF Stars you are honoring, the schools where they work, and who the gift is from. 

Using Apple Pay? Be sure to click arrow next to Additional Information before completing your payment. This will open the fields where you can enter the names of your honorees. If you accidentally complete the donation without entering them, please email amhersedfound@gmail.com.

Prefer to Donate by Mail? Click this link to download the donation form and submit it with your check.

Make your gift by June 15

Thank you!

NOTE ON DONATION FORM

For those not paying with Apple Pay, recipients’ names are added after payment information; see below for a preview of what the form will look like.

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What teachers say:

“We don't always get to fully know as teachers the impact we are having on our students. We can take stock of their work in class, and observe their behavior with others, but we don't know what they are storing in their magnificent brains and taking with them out into the world. I have had the good fortune to be honored by parents and members of the Amherst community through their "STARS in our Schools" donations to AEF. When making their donations, parents and relatives have commented specifically that they see their children singing with joy and self confidence and that they have an appreciation for music of different world cultures. It is deeply satisfying to know that what we do in the schools gets carried out into the community.”

Anne White, Music Teacher, Fort River Elementary School