The primary mission of the Association is to increase awareness among the public and corporate communities and to offer professional and personal growth opportunities for trustees, administrators, and teachers. It pursues this purpose through:

• Creating a forum for sharing, communicating, and supporting one another, including serving as a catalyst for dialogue among independent school leadership;
• Maintaining and increasing professional growth and development opportunities of member school heads, administrators, faculty and trustees;
• Facilitating effective problem solving in such areas as inservice programs, data collection, publications, administrative procedures, purchasing, and interaction with state legislature;
• Fostering members to serve as models of excellence in education, preparing our students to become competent business, professional and community leaders, with the skills and ethical discipline our society needs;
• Increasing awareness and knowledge of independent schools among parents and the general public as well as the corporate and educational communities by participating in collaborative outreach efforts, both locally, regionally and nationally.

CHARITABLE PARTNERS
Charitable Partners is a program through which members of the corporate community and individuals recognize and promote the well being of independent schools. Participating Charitable Partners help underwrite expenses of professional development for school heads, trustees, administrative staff and faculty as well as providing avenues to educate families with regard to alternative choices in education.

Levels of Giving for 2007-2008:

• Guardian Angel — $5,000 and above
• Leadership Circle — $2,000
• Patron — $1,000
• Sponsor — $500
• Sustainer — $250

Guardian Angel:

• Anheuser Busch Companies, Inc. *
• Emerson Electric Co. *
• Edward E. Ford Foundation **

Leadership Circle:

• National City Bank

Patrons:

• Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation

Sponsors:

• AmeriServe Foods
• Bank of America
• Corporate Cash Flow
• FACTS Management Company
• John Handcock Financial Network
• Kozney-Wagner, Inc.
• Murphy Company
• Northern Trust
• PortraitEFX by Bonner Photography

Sustainer:

• CCS Group

In-Kind Donations:

• Rubin and Brown LLP
• Chaminade College Preparatory School

* Special thanks and recognition of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. and Emerson for the major funding of the ISSL Social Norms program to explore student attitudes and behaviors related to alcohol and their perceptions of use by other high school aged youth. The goal of the project is to give kids the facts about use, to remind them of how much we care about them and to give them strategies they can employ to resist the pressure of engaging in substance abuse.

** Special thanks and recognition to the Edward E. Ford Foundation’s major underwriting of ISSL’s Teacher Hiring Fair to Promote Diversity for several years.