Grants

Category Grants Awarded in
Year 2018

Adam J. Lewis Academy

Amount
$3,000
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Bridgeport, CT

AJL After the Bell after-school STEM program for underserved children

Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry

Amount
$20,000
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Charleston, SC

Week of the Young Child STEM immersion project to provide children, educators and parents of Berkeley County First Steps with fun and engaging theme-based STEM curricula, resources and activities

City Garden Montessori School

Amount
$13,107
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
St. Louis, MO

Centralized anti-bias, anti-racism library, grade level specific lesson plans for 1st-6th grades, and related teacher training

Hitchcock Center for the Environment

Amount
$20,000
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Amherst, MA

Small Wonders: Using Science and Nature to Grow Young Minds –integrates science and nature based education into early childhood programs and schools

Kennedy Middle Grade School

Amount
$5,000
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Kankakee, IL

Funds to purchase supplies for new school library makerspace to support creativity, collaboration and unstructured free play

Maine Memorial Elementary

Amount
$3,230
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Maine, NY

Think, Solve, Code Program — using technology tools to teach students from grades 1-5 to be critical thinkers, problem solvers and coders

Mill City Grows

Amount
$12,021
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Lowell, MA

Full STEAM Ahead in the Garden program — garden-based experiential STEAM learning project

Phillips Brooks House Association

Amount
$790
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Cambridge, MA

Roxbury Youth Initiative — Exploring Ecosystems: The Environment and Me focuses on local wildlife to develop basic understanding of habitats and ecosystems

Phillips Brooks House Association

Amount
$890
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Cambridge, MA

Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program — Project-based activities to foster appreciation for science and self expression

Phillips Brooks House Association

Amount
$1,130
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Cambridge, MA

Mission Hill Summer Program — Philosophers of the Concrete Jungle literacy and art history program

Phillips Brooks House Association

Amount
$1,238
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Cambridge, MA

Native American Youth Enrichment Program — Honoring Native Voices Today: Intergenerational Learning and Leadership Initiative workshops and activities

Smith County Champions for Children

Amount
$6,300
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Tyler, TX

Build the Brain and Body with Big Body Play — for at-risk children 18 months through school age to encourage the development of body and brain through big body play

South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation

Amount
$1,150
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Spartanburg, SC

Visual Literacy in the Hands of Students with Visual Impairments project — create 20 lap-size tactile reproductions of selected narrative master artworks to start collection of child-friendly touchable artworks to promote visual and tactile literacy

Story Preservation Initiative

Amount
$8,500
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Andover, NH

Collaboration with master storyteller Odds Bodkin to integrate fictional stories and myths for K-3 into the Learning Lab offerings to study effect of storytelling relative to fostering emotional and English language literacy

The Faraday Foundation, Inc.

Amount
$39,000
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Wichita, KS

Expenses related to production of 40 episodes of Midnight Science Club (https://www.midnightscienceclub.com/) and related social media to build and sharpen science thinking skills (https://faradaystudios.com/)

Vera Court Neighborhood Center, Inc.

Amount
$7,000
Category
Grants Awarded in
Year
2018
Location
Madison, WI

Tablets for animation and garden design for project-based STEM summer program

Total $153,378