How You Can Help UCLA SMP




The support of the education world and its leaders is critical to the success of UCLA SMP. Financial support from individuals and the business community allows UCLA SMP to continue partnering with learning communities to ensure high achievement for
every student.

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  Why Should You Sponsor SMP
UCLA SMP is a non-profit, self-supporting unit of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. We are a non-bureaucratic, flexible, and responsive operation able to respond quickly to school and district needs. As experienced school practitioners, our goal is to support all students reaching high achievement. To maintain our self-sustaining operation, we welcome community and individual partners who believe that public education should be supported as it works on a continuous improvement cycle of reform, reconstruction and renewal.

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  How to Sponsor SMP

Money for general operating purposes is always welcome, as is money dedicated to offer scholarships for our Institutes. Larger donations can be used to offer matching funds to schools desiring to partner with UCLA SMP.

All contributions are tax deductible, as we have 501(c)3 status.

Please make all checks payable to UCLA Foundation - UCLA SMP Gift Fund 614140.


You may also use a credit card to make a tax deductible contribution to the UCLA School Management Program.
Please go to giving.ucla.edu/gseis and use the pull-down menu under the “Gift Information” section.
You will be able to direct your gift to “School Management Program.”

Donate to UCLA SMP

For more information, please contact Dan Chernow, UCLA SMP Executive Director, at (310) 825-2488.



Steve Juarez, Associate Vice President & Director of State Governmental Relations for the University of California
“By calling on experienced practioners and leading academics to share their knowledge about teaching and learning with K-12 teachers, principals, and administrators, UCLA SMP is making a profound difference in what happens in the classroom. UCLA SMP training makes it more likely that the people educating our children will view each student as an individual with unique capabilities and needs.”

  • John Kobara, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, California Community Foundation
    • “Most everyone understands that reforming and improving our school systems is extremely complex. While there are many entities and people trying to impose change on our schools, SMP’s approach starts with the premise that true reform will come from within the school. SMP is a partner with the schools and helps the administration, teachers, staff, and parents learn how they can work together to improve their school. SMP works in the trenches with these constituents to customize a strategy that can be sustained and yield results. SMP is a research based organization that is helping to improve the quality of education one school at a time.”