2010 Grant Recipients

East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

$30,465
Support for the Teacher Academy Program in Secondary Schools which encourages a diverse group of students to enter education by providing students with the support and training necessary to explore teaching while attending rural high schools.

Epiphany, Dorchester, MA

$30,000
Support for a unique and comprehensive intern teacher program.

The Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC

$35,000
Support a collaborative professional development program for teachers/artists.

The Boston Conservatory

$10,000
Support for the “Program for Students on the Autism Spectrum”.

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, New York, NY

$10,000
Support for training teachers to recognize and appropriately respond to bias based behaviors.

J. Sterling Morton High School District 201, Cicero, IL

$10,000
Support for training teachers to teach AP classes relevant to a target population.

Maine Audubon, Falmouth, ME

$10,000
Support for the expansion of environmental education through classroom and outdoor expereinces to Rural areas.

2009 Grant Recipients

Bard High School Early College, Annandale, NY

$35,000
Support for the development of science a curriculum.

United Teen Equality Center, Lowell, MA

$35,000
Support for a high school deploma program in a community center.

Batoto Yetu, New York, NY

$10,000
Support to integrate the art, history, music, and crafts of southwestern and central Africa into the core curriculum of grades 2 and 3.

CASES, New York, NY

$10,000
Support for a Community Prep High School, a transitional academy for youth retuning from custodial settings operated in a partnership with the New York City Department of Edcuation.

Kimball Elementary,  Seattle, WA

$10,000
Support for an inclusion initiative for 3rd and 4th graders.

Portalnd Trails, Portland, ME

$10,000
Support for training teachers developing a green curriculum

2008 Grant Recipients

Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA

$35,000
Support for the development of a Colonial New England History Kit.

Boston Plan for Excellence, Boston, MA

$35,000
Support for teacher residencies in Boston, MA

Villa Esperanza Services, Pasadena, CA

$35,000
Support for professional development for teachers of developmentally disabled students.

Friends of Bella Vista, Oakland, CA

$10,000
Support to create park-related, hands-on curriculum that will enable the teachers to meet their art and science standards for each grade level.

Friends of the Future, Kamuela, Hawaii

$10,000
Support for the development and implementation of Earl’s Garage Fab Lab activities for kids ages 7 and up.

Longley Elementary School, Lewiston, ME

$10,000
Support for literacy initiatives

Mills College Children’s School, Oakland, CA

$10,000
Support for the implementation and use of the Japanese elementary mathematics curriculum in a U.S. elementary school, The Mills College Children’s School (MCCS).