Amphi Foundation of Tucson, AZ: Capital Campaign

In a world that is constantly changing, there is
no one subject or set of subjects that will serve
you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the
rest of your life. The most important skill to
acquire now is learning how to learn.
John Naisbitt, Author, lecturer and futurist

Why give to the Amphi Foundation?

For most of us, technology has often marched ahead as we struggled to work the fax, figure out the PC, program the VCR, move on to DVD, wrangle a cell phone, Google a pizza, download music to an iPod instead of popping in a tape, and prepare a PowerPoint presentation. If you're over 30, you can remember a simpler time. If you're under 30, you've never known a time when these things didn't exist.

This is why the Amphi Foundation exists, and why your financial support is so important---a society that's undergone such rapid, and at times radical, transitions as ours has in recent decades challenges its schools to do better than keep up. It demands that they lead the way. And we all have a stake in the outcome.

Programs such as the 21st C. Classroom Initiative send our children into the world to become good citizens, better problem-solvers, and productive, skilled, agile thinkers and workers within their chosen fields.

Very recently, a team of physics and electrical engineering students at MIT took a major step toward wireless electricity, or WiTricity, when they turned on a light bulb, unconnected to a power source, from seven feet away. (Learn more >)

But it was the child of one of the team members who actually inspired the WiTricity project. On a visit to his grandparents', he found it very strange that their phone had a cord. So did his Dad, which led him to wonder, "What if...?"

The Amphi Foundation's mission is to assist the leadership of Amphitheater Public School District and its teachers the tools to encourage our children to think and ask questions, and the skills to be able to contribute to the future. Breakthroughs on the order of MIT's are reported every day, with implications for medicine, energy, the environment, communications, service and productive industries, transportation, and education, too.

Join us in preparing our children to "learn how to learn" and to embrace change in their quest to master, perhaps even invent "the next new thing".

What you can do

• Make a direct contribution
• Help raise funds
• Purchase a SMART Board for a school >
• Contribute to a Health & Fitness program >
• Set up a college scholarship >
• Contribute to Neff Memorial for Amphi HS >
• Give through your company's United Way campaign

Contact Lisa Humenik, Chairperson, Fund Development Committee, at 520-696-5147.

United Way Campaign

As a tax-exempt non-profit under IRS Section 501 (C) 3, the Amphi Foundation qualifies for United Way contributions. If your company participates in the United Way Campaign, you may designate the Foundation as your charity of choice and contribute a lump sum or through regular payroll deductions.*

Please inquire through your employer or United Way of Greater Tucson, 520-903-9000.

Amphitheater Employees
Amphi employees give generously to the Foundation through the district's annual United Way campaign. To find out how you can participate, please contact the Foundation at 520-696-5147.

* Please consult your tax advisor on the deductibility of charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.

Legal and Non-Profit Status
TIN #86-0472926.

The Amphi Foundation is an Arizona corporation overseen by a volunteer board of directors, and a tax-exempt non-profit charity under IRS Sections 501 (C) 3; 509 (a) (1); 170 (b) (1) (A) (vi); and 2055, 2106 and 2522.

Request a copy of our latest financial statement >