DANVERS — The Danvers Rotary donated $10,000 to the Danvers Educational Enrichment Partnership last Monday, the first installment of a gift that will total $50,000 over the next three years.
The money will help DEEP, an all-volunteer charity that raises money for the town's schools, meet a fundraising goal of $500,000 to outfit learning labs at Danvers High School with computers and white boards.
"The gift from Rotary is 10 percent of the way there, and it's a nice chunk of it," said Matt Schroder, president of DEEP.
The Rotary gift will go specifically to the DECA Technology Laboratory, which supports business students, said Rotary club member Joe Joslin.
Ten labs are being built as part of $70 million in renovations at the high school, Schroder said, and the money DEEP is raising will supplement the state's budget.
"When they built the middle school, they budgeted $2,000 per student for technology," Schroder said. "At the high school, it was about $1,000."
Danvers Rotary has 70 members and raised this initial donation partly through its endowment and partly with proceeds from a comedy night held in December, Joslin said.
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