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Media Summary - Foundation Information

Mission
The Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) is dedicated to enhancing the value of document communications by creating a base of knowledge, sponsoring innovative and academic-based research, fostering education and leadership, and building and supporting a community of interest to benefit document creators and users.

Overview
The Electronic Document Systems Foundation is a nonprofit, industry-supported charitable 501( c )( 3 ) organization established to enhance the value of document communication throughout the world. EDSF is the only foundation dedicated to this mission and representing the electronic document communication industry.

The EDSF Community

• The EDSF constituency is broad and includes all those who create, use and promote document communications in society.
• The EDSF community is global in terms of whom the Foundation supports and those who benefit from its activities.
• EDSF projects and activities are financed through contributions received from corporations and individuals.
• Brenda Kai is executive director of EDSF. A board of directors composed of industry and academic leaders guides the Foundation. EDSF headquarters are in Hurst, Texas.

• EDSF helps document communication professionals, creators, users and the public to better understand and benefit from paper and electronic document communication.
• EDSF plays a broad role in promoting document communication to the benefit of society. Those of us who have mastered some of the most powerful communication tools ever developed by mankind, must come together to bring these tools to bear on mankind's deepest and most enduring problems.
• EDSF is dedicated to enhancing and expanding the value of document communications to organizations, cultures, regions and individuals who do not have the same opportunities to benefit from this powerful tool.

Major EDSF Programs
EDSF is dedicated to enhancing the value of document communications by creating a base of knowledge, sponsoring academic-based research, fostering education and professionalism, recognizing innovation and leadership, and building and supporting a community of interest to benefit document creators and users. To accomplish its mission, EDSF sponsors leading-edge research, provides education programs that support current and future industry professionals, and hosts special events to build a worldwide community of interest around document communication.

Education Programs

• Through its education programs, EDSF ensures a constant supply of quality talent for the industry. The Foundation helps prepare students for careers in the electronic document communication field by funding scholarships for technical school and college-level students.
• EDSFIntern.org connects industry companies with students pursuing careers in document communications through internship and co-op opportunities.
• EDSF supports top-notch academic programs worldwide through annual presentation of the EDSF Excellence in Education Awards. These awards recognize quality and innovation in higher education, continuing education, online education and training and professional growth and development.
• Initiated in 2002, the EDSF Educator of the Year award honors academic, corporate or industry representatives who have made outstanding contributions to education or training in the document communication industry.

• Emerging and evolving technologies are continually transforming our industry, and the Foundation has created a base of knowledge to help document communication professionals stay on top of these changes. We commission research initiatives that are crucial to our industry.
• The EDSf REPORT is a bi-monthly newsletter providing research trends of the document communication industry.
• Printing in the Age of the WEB & Beyond, released in April 2001, evaluates the impact of the Internet on print and predicts the role of print in the future. This study has been well received by industry press and is an essential reference guide for document communication professionals.
• Past EDSF research projects included, Network, Screen and Page, a study of the effects of digital technology on reading and publishing. Another landmark study was Defining the Document Industry, which yielded important data about economic impact and growth trends.