SEF Awards Spring Grants

The Summit Educational Foundation is pleased to announce our spring grant awards.  With generous support from more than 700 member families, the Foundation was able to fund 19 grants this cycle, totaling over $489,000.   

A sampling of recently approved grants includes:

• Extended Day Program at all 5 Elementary Schools, $53,607
• Leadership Training for teachers throughout the district, $15,000*
• Battle of the Books, a team-based reading motivation program at Lincoln-Hubbard and Washington, $1,483
• Beginning programing activities for use during Library time at Franklin, $2,006
• Playaway book collections at all five elementary schools, $11,309
• Alternative desks and supplies to help students maintain attention at Washington and Jefferson, $9,172
• Creation of a Coding Club at LCJSMS, $2,831 
• SHS Computer Programming Club, $1,550
• Transition work and curriculum reformatting for transition to block scheduling at SHS, $16,640
• Chromebooks for all SHS students, to be phased in over 3 years, beginning with grade 9, $363,760*

Click here for a complete listing of the May grants.  

These grants bring SEF's total funding for the 2014/15 academic year to over $760,000.  More than $235,000 of this total came from the SEF Endowment, which was created to offer secure support for strategic long-term initiatives within the district.  Grants receiving endowment funds are noted above with an *.  

For information on the SEF grant proposal evaluation process, click here.  Many thanks to the teachers and staff who submitted proposals and the dozens of SEF volunteers involved in the grant review.