Happy 50^th Birthday to me for CCEF and Blessings

On February 26, 2019, I will celebrate my 50^th Birthday. I would like to use this day to celebrate and support two special organizations for our students in Citrus County— the Citrus County Education Foundation and Citrus Blessings.

These two organizations represent a big part of my passion in my work life— students!

All donations will go through CCEF and will be distributed evenly to both CCEF and Blessings. Feel free to give on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/donate/314584339193513/) or by visiting their respective websites and adding Thomas Kennedy’s Birthday in the notes. ANY amount makes a difference in kids’ lives!

Thank you in advance for your gift to our kids! God bless our Citrus County kids!

Citrus Blessings – http://citruscountyblessings.org/

Our “Blessings” program is dedicated to silencing the weekend hunger of local children in need. Each week during the school year participants in the program receive a bag of food to take home for the weekend. Every Friday 1,650 local students go home with a backpack full of “Blessings” food to fill the gap over the weekend and school breaks.

Citrus County Education Foundation – https://www.citruseducation.org/

The mission of the Citrus County Education Foundation is to provide resources to support Citrus County Schools to enhance the quality for present and future generations. “Funding Our Future” is hardly just our newest tagline. Diminishing budgets and the times we live in have called for greater grassroots support and more extensive community involvement. We must advocate, and provide, for children in our public schools!

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Kennedy receives Consortium of Florida Education Foundation STAR Award

In November 2018 at the Florida School Board Association’s 73rd Annual Joint conference I was honored to learn I had been nominated by our Citrus County Education Foundation, and overwhelmed to have been chosen as the 2018 Consortium of Florida Education Foundation’s STAR School Board Member of the Year award.  While I am thrilled to be selected this award is truly one about our public education community, the awesome work of the Citrus County Education Foundation, and the outstanding community partners in Citrus County.  Thank you to the Consortium of Florida Education Foundation for this award and honoring School Board Members!

This is one of the only statewide awards for School Board Members and I was so humbled to receive this.  Thank you to the Florida School Board Association, and President Jerry Taylor for his very kind words following the receiving of this award.

I cannot thank enough the numerous people I learned where involved in the nomination application submitted so that I might be considered.  Thank you, Citrus County Education Foundation, Executive Director, Shaunda Burdette, the entire CCEF Board of Directors; the nominating letter author Citrus Blessings, Executive Director, Grace Hengesbach; CCSB Director of Research and Accountability, Amy Crowell; CCSB Education Chief, Dr. Scott Hebert, and Superintendent of Schools, Sandra “Sam” Himmel.

I want to also give a personal thank you, to my dear amazing wife Thomasine, my son Ethan and daughter Genevieve and the support, encouragement and all they do and sacrifice so that we may do this work.

Lastly, thank you to our great community of Citrus County.  Our family is so blessed to live in Citrus!

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Citrus Schools 2019 Winter Communication

…Read about some of our school district’s latest news!

See images below or click here to download a PDF verison.

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