Friends of Blaine was founded in 2003, and has raised more than $700,000.00 to support high-quality educational programs for the students.

The Board is led by a small body of volunteer officers. Elections are held each spring for a two-year term. Any parent of a Blaine School student is eligible to run for office, as long as he or she also is not a voting member of the Local School Council at the same time. Notification of elections is distributed through students’ folders, the Web site, eblast, Facebook and Twitter.

Meetings are held monthly at a time and place determined by the board. Additionally, Friends of Blaine holds open, quarterly meetings, which are a great opportunity to learn more about the board, activities being undertaken, and what you can do to help.

How does the Blaine community of organizations fit together? Here is a little guide to the groups and what they do.

Meet the 2011/2012 Board

President:
Amy Leadstrom
president@friendsofblaine.org

Vice President:
Christy Corkery

Vice President, Communications:
Erik Giles
communications@friendsofblaine.org
or via
info@friendsofblaine.org

Vice President, Fund-raising:
Lynn Corda
events@friendsofblaine.org

Vice President, Business Partnerships:
Sean Buino
partnerships@friendsofblaine.org

Treasurer:
Peter Leadstrom
treasurer@friendsofblaine.org

Assistant Treasurer:
Jonathon Senal

Secretary:
Sean Buino

Members:
Paige Meilet-Kinane

Jon Fieldman

Mailing address:
1420 W. Grace Street
Chicago, IL 60613
info@friendsofblaine.org