THE WADE EDWARDS FOUNDATION  

   The Wade Edwards Foundation is a public non-profit organization qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  It was founded in 1996.  The purpose of the Foundation is to reward, encourage, and inspire young people in the pursuit of excellence.  The Foundation has been the recipient of the generosity and support of many people and organizations. Please visit our Supporter's Page. If you are interested in supporting the Foundation, click here, or contact Sarah Lowder, Executive Director of the Wade Edwards Foundation: email Slowder @ wade.org; phone and FAX 919-856-9233. You can find a Wish List here.

    The primary project of the Wade Edwards Foundation is the Wade Edwards Learning Lab, a free after-school computer and learning center adjacent to Broughton High School, a public high school in Raleigh, North Carolina.  The Foundation is currently in the early stages of replicating the Learning Lab at another North Carolina site. Other Foundation projects have included A Place in Time, a public art sculpture and space at Broughton High School, the Wade Edwards Short Fiction Award, a scholarship award given annually to high school students in North Carolina, scholarship grants to students at Broughton High School for enriching extra-curricular opportunities, and participation in the creation of computer facilities at Method Day Care Center in Raleigh, North Carolina and in a national scholarship award in the National Conversation Essay Contest conducted by the Voice of America and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

    The Foundation has partnered with various non-profits to provide greater services to the academic and non-profit community, including the Department of Public Instruction, the Wake County Public School System, Needham B. Broughton High School and its PTA and its feeder schools, the North Carolina English Teachers' Association, The Wake Education Partnership, Carolina Global Schoolhouse, the Voice of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kids Voting, Playspace, Communities in Schools, Project Enlightenment, Princeton Review, and the Alice Aycock Poe Health Center.  

     The Board of Trustees for the Wade Edwards Foundation are:

            U.S. Senator John Edwards
            Elizabeth Anania Edwards
            Catharine E. Edwards
            F. Eugene Hafer
            Jim Jenkins
            David F. Kirby
            Hargrave McElroy
            Dan J. McLamb
            Ellan J. Maynard 
            Walter C. Sherlin

    The Foundation offices are located at 714 St. Mary's Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27605.   Sarah Lowder is the Executive Director of the Wade Edwards Foundation: email Slowder @ wade.org; phone and FAX 919-856-9233. If you need further information about the activities of the Foundation or if you wish to make a fully tax deductible contribution to the Foundation, please contact Sarah Lowder at Slowder @ wade.org. Steven Killion, Director of the Wade Edwards Learning Lab, can be reached via email at SKillion @ wade.org or via phone at 919-856-9355.