Meet Trustee Liz Benedetto
Liz is behind the Foundation's branding and stunning imagery. Working as a trustee since 2016 (and helping out before that as needed), Liz gave the Foundation’s tree logo a make over and built flexibility into it by creating a stackable and horizontal version.
“I then enhanced the 220EF brand experience through clean and consistent typography, colors and imagery across print and digital media,” Liz said. “I designed a website to help share projects, news and information with our community.”
The Foundation’s website (https://220foundation.org) exhibits Liz’s creativity as well as her work on enhancing the Foundation’s communications through a new tagline (Encourage, Inspire and Enrich) and mission statement: To encourage curiosity, inspire students' passion for learning and career exploration, and provide enriching opportunities through private funding.
One of those enriching experiences funded by the Foundation to District 220 has been the business incubator course at Barrington High School (BHS). Believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, the innovative course was started in the 2013-2014 school year. Students create and fully develop their own product or service, culminating in Pitch Week where they have an opportunity to gain real funding for their idea.
“I was able to attend the BHS student pitches at the very beginning, I was photographing them,” Liz said of her favorite Foundation project. “There was great creative energy in the room, and it was clear that this was the beginning of something exciting. Students not only produced the business ideas, but they articulated their ideas in such a professional way; and the composure that they presented when asked business questions from the panel of entrepreneurial professionals. Year after year, I am amazed by the program and the innovative mindset of BHS staff and students.”
Liz’s creativity and professionalism continues to encourage, inspire and enrich the students and staff of District 220 as well as the Foundation itself.
