Charity faces closure

[From FOUNDATION, pg. 1]

Brian Chase, who was a parttime paid director in 2010, and Floria Borzenkova have since stepped in. According to Zanghi, for a while someone volunteered, but Borzenkova is currently acting as the full-time director with the title of senior program director.

“There are some colleges in the district that have foundations but no staff,” said Burke. “Any work that would be done by employees of the college’s Foundation would be done by employees of the college and the Foundation would pay them for their time working on Foundation things where they were not working on college things. They would pay them overtime, but the Foundation continues.” she is not the one in charge of the Foundation and the ultimate decision will need to be decided by the Foundation’s board.

“They do not work for me, they work for the Foundation board so that is up to the Foundation board. I believe they are having a meeting on Wednesday,” Burke said. “What I do know is they are running out of money so they have no way to pay the employees. So if you connect those dots, if you cannot pay your employees. That is really the Foundation board’s decision, not the College Board’s decision.” needed to channel all of that energy into something positive.”

There will be a Board of Director’s meeting at noon on Wednesday in the Student Services Building to discuss the future of the organization and options for fundraising.

Since 2009, Peterson has been working on ways to help keep bringing Relay for Life back to Woodland Hills each year. Peterson said this is how she does something important about the fight for cancer. “Doing an event like this where the whole community comes together really under the umbrella of one cause, it feels really supportive and it feels really powerful,” Peterson said. “You come out and you realize how many people you don’t even know really care about helping you.”

Media Arts Department students bring home state awards

Annual conference and ceremony recognizes achievements in journalism programs

Mohammad Djauhari

Photo Editor

The staff of Pierce College’s Roundup News, The Bull Magazine, and KPCRadio.com attended the Journalism Association of

Community Colleges’ 2014 State Convention, which took place at the Burbank Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Burbank, Calif. The convention, which started Thursday, April 3 and ended Saturday, April 5, hosted community colleges statewide where student journalists were able to attend various workshops and compete in on-the-spot contests, mail-in, and bring-in categories. Some of this year’s winners included: Mohammad Djauhari for News Photo, Jeremy Nation and

Monica Salazar for Magazine Cover Design, Nelger Carrera for Photo Essay Story and On-the-spot Sports

Photo, Lynn Levitt for Bring-in

Photo, and Matt Gottesman for Webcast//Broadcast News.

[For the full story visit theroundupnews.com]

In 2010, the Foundation for Pierce College had a revenue of $514,807, significantly less than the $616,095 revenue in 2009. The income continued to drop in 2011, with the organization bringing in only $254,270.

“We are running out of general funds for many reasons and the administration is not in a position to financially help us because of budget cuts,” Zanghi said.

Burke said, however, that

“They are not employees of the district. It is a very defined relationship because they are an auxiliary organization so we cannot, by law, use some college funds to pay them,” said Burke. “The whole purpose of the organization would be to make money that we would not normally otherwise get so that’s really its role.”

The Foundation is currently still accepting applications for scholarships.