Betty Azar TAAF receives $15,000 gift TAA member Betty Azar has made a $15,000 unrestricted gift to the TAA Foundation. Azar, the author of the bestselling Azar Grammar Series, published by Pearson Longman, said she hoped her gift would encourage other textbook authors of perennial bestsellers to support the Foundation... click for more

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TAA Foundation Becomes a Reality

The TAA Council authorized the expenditure of funds necessary to incorporate a TAA Foundation for charitable and educational purposes, and to retain a grant specialist to help TAA search out and prepare grants in order to launch the Foundation. So far more than $5,000 in pledges have been received from TAA members to help establish the Foundation, said Ron Pynn, TAA executive director.

TAA's first step will be to incorporate the Foundation and then file with the IRS as a charitable, not-for-profit organization, said Pynn. TAA is seeking members to serve as board of directors for the Foundation.

Once the Foundation is established, TAA will be seeking grant support to help launch its charitable and educational projects, said Pynn, including the expansion of its workshops for authors and prospective authors. "The retention of a grant specialist will aid TAA in searching out and preparing grants to get the Foundation into full operation," he said. Pynn welcomes suggestions for other charitable or educational projects TAA might undertake once the Foundation is in operation.

If you are interested in either making a pledge to the Foundation or serving on the Foundation board please contact TAA headquarters at (727) 563-0020 or by emailing TEXT@tampabay.rr.com

TAA would like to thank the following people for their pledges to the TAA Foundation:

Jay Black
Stephen Gillen
Michael Lennie
Robert & Bobbe Christopherson
Charles B. Corbin
D. Stanley Eitzen
Gerald Stone & Donna Besser
Melvin Mencher
Mary Ellen Guffey
Paul Siegel
Peggy Stanfield
Tom Lathrop
Shokichi Uto
Wilfred Kaplan
Betty Azar
Karen Hess
Richard Meade
Ronald McMullen
Lee Mountain
Michael Sullivan
Andrew Tanenbaum
John Wakefield

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