A $10 million dollar donation toward the completion of the new elementary school in Uvalde CISD, given by the Kate Marmion Charitable Foundation to the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation, was announced at a press conference on Aug. 27 at the construction site of the new school. Construction of the school is set to be completed in Fall 2025.
The Kate Marmion Charitable Foundation also issued $5 million matching grant to the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation. Every donation made to the “Hope Blooms in Uvalde” campaign will be matched dollar for dollar.
“The Kate Marmion Charitable Foundation is humbled to be able to help Uvalde with this donation,” said Dolph Briscoe IV, President of the Kate Marmion Charitable Foundation. “My cousin, Kate Marmion, was a graduate of Uvalde CISD, as were the founders of our foundation, her mother (and my aunt), the late Janey Briscoe Marmion, and our grandfather, the late former Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, Jr. With three generations of the Briscoe family having attended Uvalde schools, and in keeping with the foundation’s mission to to encourage, support, and promote people, places, and programs in Uvalde and South Texas that were important to Kate, our foundation board could think of no gift more appropriate than to assist with the building of this new school. The Kate Marmion Charitable Foundation is committed to honoring the victims and survivors of the tragedy that occurred two years ago, and our board hopes the new school will continue a process of support, remembrance, and healing for the community.”
The Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation has now raised 83 percent of the funds needed to fully fund the completion of the school. Raising the $5 million dollars and receiving the $5 million matching grant will complete the Foundation’s fundraising. Donations can be made by visiting www.UvaldeCISDMovingForward.org.
“This donation from the Kate Marmion Charitable Foundation comes at the right time as we approached our deadline to fully fund the construction of the new elementary school,” said Tim Miller, Executive Director of the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation. “We now are looking to everyone to join us in bringing hope and healing today, and for future Uvalde Coyotes, by donating to the ‘Hope Blooms in Uvalde’ campaign.”
The Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation was created in the wake of the tragedy at Robb Elementary School through gifts from grocery chain, H-E-B, and the Butt family totaling $10 million. Huckabee Inc. donated their architectural services, becoming a founding partner. Beginning in the fall of 2022, the Foundation began working with the Uvalde CISD Community Advisory Committee to develop the plans for the new elementary school. Those plans were approved by the Uvalde CISD Board of Trustees in April 2023 and construction broke ground in February 2024.
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Note: The Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation is a separate entity from the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
About the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation
The Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation serving the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District community. The nonprofit was created in the wake of the tragedy at Robb Elementary School, which took 21 innocent lives on May 24, 2022. Funding collected through the foundation will support the construction of a new elementary school campus in the Uvalde CISD, ensuring students and staff will not have to return to the site of the tragedy, and ultimately supporting the District’s ongoing needs as it moves forward. For more information about the foundation, including opportunities for making a donation, please visit www.uvaldecisdmovingforward.org.
