Nardo Foundation

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! As 2026 begins, please consider a tax-deductible gift to the Nardo Foundation. We promise to put your generosity to good use: scholarships to students at Sandhills Community College and teaching innovation awards to teachers at Cross Keys High School.

Details and a secure giving link:

This is the website of the Nardo Foundation, a non-profit, charitable corporation.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from the Nardo Foundation (https://nardo.foundation)! In December on the last day of school for Fall, I surprised the 2025 winner of our $1,000 Teaching Innovation Award: Mr. Derikson Rivera Rios. Watch to see how he plans to use the award to help his students at Cross Keys High School in Brookhaven. Thank you to Principal Gibson and our inaugural winner Ms. White who helps to celebrate each new winner and takes such awesome videos! Congratulations to him and all the hard-working, dedicated K-12 teachers.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year’s Eve! As 2024 winds down, please consider a tax-deductible gift to the Nardo Foundation. We promise to put your generosity to good use: scholarships to students at Sandhills Community College and teaching innovation awards to teachers at Cross Keys High School.

Details and a secure giving link:

This is the website of the Nardo Foundation, a non-profit, charitable corporation.

12/24/2024

Last week, the Nardo Foundation gave its 2024 Teaching Innovation Award to Mary Liz Walker at Cross Keys High School. This amazing educator helps students new to English learn the language, and she plans to spend the $1,000 to create interactive electronic notebooks to further fast language acquisition. Congratulations, dear teacher: you make a profound difference in your students’ lives! Also, we were lucky to have last year’s inaugural winner, Ms. Twania White, as part of the celebration. Last year, she used her award to take 95 students to Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights. What fantastic teachers!

12/30/2023

Today, the Nardo Foundation received the largest donation it has received since the family donations that started up our non-profit! Woo Hoo! My birthday FB fundraiser collected $748. This almost covers the inaugural $1,000 teaching innovation award we gave earlier this month. If you’re looking for a donation that’s deductible on Federal taxes before the year closes tomorrow, please consider us.

12/15/2023

The Nardo Foundation is proud to announce the inaugural winner of our Teaching Innovation Award: Twania White at Cross Keys High School. Ms. White teaches multicultural literature, and we are happy that Cross Keys lured this talented, award-winning teacher away from Gwinnett County to teach in our neighborhood. Half of the $1,000 award is for Ms. White personally to thank her for the daily difference she makes in students’ lives; the other half will help fund her classroom innovations. She plans to take her classes to the Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights this Spring. Brava and thank you, Ms. White; you are a teaching icon!

08/15/2023

Though it's still very basic, the Nardo Foundation's website is live at last. Please visit

This is the website of the Nardo Foundation, a non-profit, charitable corporation.

06/21/2023

Today, I toured Sandhills Community College’s Radiography program with my childhood friend Robin Garner (the program director), Ashley Davis (her faculty peer and clinical coordinator), and Jennifer Dail (my contact at the SCC Foundation). These dedicated educators are doing amazing work, and I’m proud that the Nardo Foundation is supporting them with a student scholarship.

05/14/2023

The Nardo Foundation is celebrating the graduation of our inaugural Kay Brown Nardo scholar, Jailene. Your hard work is paying off, dear student, and we are so proud of you! Do well on your boards and starting your first job. We value all that Professor Robin Garner and her faculty do to propel their students forward. You honor my Mom’s decades of teaching and her legacy at Sandhills Community College!

05/14/2023

The Nardo Foundation is celebrating the graduation of our inaugural Kay Brown Nardo scholar, Jailene. Your hard work is paying off, dear student, and we are so proud of you! Do well on your boards and starting your first job.

04/10/2023

It’s an exciting day for the Nardo Foundation: the IRS approved our application to be a tax-exempt public charity under their 501(c)(3) code section. All of my hopes and dreams for this fledgling foundation are coming true!