Since that time, the foundation’s primary mission has been to fund special academic projects from Deer Creek teachers that were submitted for approval to the Foundation. Fund raising has always been the primary mission of the DCSF. This has been accomplished primarily by solicitation of Deer Creek patrons for tax deductible contributions.

2019-2020 Officers

President – Jennifer Elliott
Vice President – Paul Gebb
Secretary – Gerald Elrod
Past President – Kyle Schulz

Trustees

Robbyn Benn
Barry Cunningham
Jay Corwin
Jennifer Elliott
Gerald Elrod
Paul Gebb
Aaron Gwartney
Steve Haddock
Chris James
Aaron Penix
Jaena Poppe
Kyle Schulz
Jack Wheeler
Kyle Williams
Jason Zaloudik

Dr. Danny Barnes (School Board Representative)

Other

Executive Committee
Comprised of the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Deals with the day to day operation of the DCSF.

Board Development Committee
Composed of various executive committee members and trustees. Its focus is on trustee recruitment, evaluation, and general governance of the foundation.

Grant Committee
Composed of trustees and non-trustee volunteers. This committee is crucial in identifying areas of acadmic need within the district, interfacing with school officials , reviewing teacher grant requests, and monitoring the grant implementation.

Public Relations Committee
Composed of trustees and non trustee volunteers. This committee deals with all public relations aspects of the DCSF. Organization of speakers for back to school nights, maintence of the web site, press releases, are just a few of this important committee’s tasks.

Fundraising Committee
Comprised of trustees and non-trustee volunteers. The fundraising committee oversees all aspects of every fundraising activity of the foundation.

Golf Committee
Comprised and trustees and non-trustee volunteers. This committee handles all aspects of our annual golf tournament help in the spring.

Awards Reception Committee
Comprises of trustees and non-trustee volunteers. This committees job is to plan and execute the DCSF’s annual academic awards ceremony.

Robotics Committee

Scholarship Committee
Comprised of trustees and non-trustee volunteers. The scholarship committee reviews scholarship applications for the 5 scholarships offered by the DCSF.

The governing power of the organization rests with all the trustees who are voting members. From the board of trustees, the executive committee is elected. The president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary make up the executive committee. The executive committee is responsible for the ultimate leadership of the DCSF and its day-to-day function.

The DCSF functions under a comprehensive and strict set of bylaws that are carefully followed. 

The Oklahoma City Community Foundation is a local, very well respected, non-profit, public charity that specializes in the investment management of nonprofit endowments. Our association with the Oklahoma City Community foundation allows us the have expert investment management by the nations’ 16th largest community foundation.

The Oklahoma City Community foundation has literally hundreds of millions of dollars in assets in hundreds of different endowments. The expenses charged by the OKC community foundation for investment management is minimal compared to the benefits we receive from this locally operated, highly respected organization. The annual disbursement from the OKC Community foundation to the DCSF is calculated by averaging the total value of the DCSF investments for each of the past 12 quarters and disbursing 5 percent of that value each year. The amount of this disbursement combined with the contributions we receive that year from patron donations are used to fund the teacher grants and other activities.