The Leaders Circle

What is the Leaders Circle?
Membership in our Leaders Circle comes with any donation of $500 or more.

Leaders Circle members will be invited to private events that focus on education in our community. In the past, for example, we have hosted a Leaders Circle-member-only breakfast with the Superintendent of Needham Public Schools.

Additionally, if you or your organization is interested, we offer publicity for our Leaders Circle members through our website, Spelling Bee advertising program, and NEF public relations initiatives.

Why the Leaders Circle?
Ralph Leader was the visionary founder and first president of the NEF who inspired his Needham High School classmates at their 50th reunion to start the Needham Education Foundation. With $3,000 in 1990, the NEF was founded with the same vision we have today: to stimulate, promote, support and fund the creation and implementation of innovative educational programs and enrichment activities that benefit Needham Public School students and that are outside of normal and expected funding.

We honor Ralph Leader by naming our major donor program after him, and we are inspired by him as we rigorously fundraise and carefully distribute these funds.

To join our Leaders Circle, please print our donation form.