Southern Education Foundation
- Southern Education Foundation
The Southern Education Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation created in 1937 from four different funds (the Peabody Education Fund, the John F Slater Fund, the Negro Rural School Fund, and the Virginia Randolph Fund) [cite book |title=Encyclopedia of African-American Education |last=Jones-Wilson|first=Faustine Childress|page=439 |year=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=031328931X ] . Their main goal is to promote quality education for traditionally disadvantaged students, including the poor and African-Americans. States in the SEF include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Lynn Walker Huntley is the current president. [cite press release
title = Mott grant caps $6-million campaign to endow Southern Education Foundation
publisher = Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
date = April 18, 2008
url = http://www.mott.org/recentnews/pressreleases/20080418SEF.aspx
accessdate = May 22, 2008
quote = "The endowment will provide a reliable financial base for the Center to Serve and guarantee its long-term stability through inevitable fluctuations in fundraising," said Lynn Huntley, president of SEF. ] .
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