– Additional $5 million is set to match every new donation received by the Foundation –
Press Release from the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation
and News report by Michael Robinson | Uvalde Hesperian
08-27-24
WHAT: A $10 million dollar donation toward the completion of the new elementary school in Uvalde CISD was announced at a press conference on Tuesday, August 27. The donor is also issuing a $5 million matching grant to the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation. Every donation made to the “Hope Blooms in Uvalde” campaign will be matched dollar for dollar.
The Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation has now raised more than 80 percent of the funds needed to fully fund the completion of the school. Raising the $5 million dollars and receiving the $5 million matching grant will complete the Foundation’s fundraising.
Construction of the school is set to be completed in Fall 2025.
Uvalde Hesperian:
Uvalde CISD Superintendent Ashley Chohis joined several other Uvalde CISD Administrators and several elementary students at the construction site of the new Uvalde Elementary School for a press conference hosted by the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation’s news conference earlier today. Tim Miller, Executive Director of the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation announced that the Kate Marmion Foundation pledged to donate $10 Million Dollars to the completion of the school with an additional $5 Million Dollar Matching Grant. Miller said that a final push for the needed funds to complete the school has begun and the new school is slated to be completed by the fall of 2025.
Following the press conference, Miller gave a tour of the construction site which was busy with numerous workers doing cement work, hoisting steel girders and doing many other types of projects.
Construction tour participants were required to wear hard hats and safety vests during the tour. Miller told the group that the second floor of the school was being prepared for concrete to be poured for the flooring.
