(Jan. 19, 2017) The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) honored Maryland Lower Shore schools and educators with $59,919 in grants through the organization’s 2016 Education Award Grants Program.
Education awards are made annually in conjunction with National Education Week through a competitive process to public and private schools on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. Grants are made to those schools that have developed innovative programs to be particularly beneficial to their students and communities.
“This awards program is the Community Foundation’s principle vehicle for recognizing and rewarding those schools that are engaged in making a particularly creative contribution to the education of our children,” said Erica Joseph, CFES president. “These awards highlight truly remarkable things our dedicated teachers and school administrators are accomplishing.”
The following Worcester County schools received Education Award Grants for 2016 during ceremonies held at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s Nonprofit Support Center in Salisbury:
• Berlin Intermediate School will purchase a google expedition virtual field trip kit for 20 students.
• Pocomoke Middle School will pilot an after-school journalism club that uses social media and photography.
• Snow Hill Elementary School will partner with many community organizations to create a pilot school-operated community garden.
• Snow Hill Elementary School will pilot a core language and writing program with dynamic communication devices. This will be done in partnership with Cedar Chapel Special School.
• Snow Hill Elementary School is going to implement a mindful social and emotional needs program.
• Snow Hill High School will enhance its theater programs and create two high school theater events.
• Snow Hill Middle School will pilot a personalized learning program (PLP) for sixth grade students.
• Stephen Decatur High School will improve its Seahawk Writing Center by creating a more formalized training program for writing lab tutors
The Community Foundation honored three literacy programs with the Mary Gay Calcott Award of Excellence. The winning schools were Stephen Decatur High School, Wicomico Middle School and Bennett Middle School. In addition to the Calcott Award, these schools received grant funding from the Foundation’s Mary Gay Calcott Memorial Fund.
The award is named for the late Mary Gay Calcott, a professor of English at Salisbury University whose life embodied her ideals of teaching students to think, to express themselves with clarity and to care about the world they live in. To date, the Mary Gay Calcott Memorial Fund has awarded $10,500 to area public schools.
As leaders, grant makers and stewards of philanthropy, The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore serves the common good of the Lower Eastern Shore. CFES is a 501c3 nonprofit with an inspiring history of fostering charitable endeavors, and has provided more than $60 million in grants and scholarships to the local community since 1984.
CFES collaborates with individuals, families and businesses to match their charitable interests with community needs and strengthen local nonprofits through grants and resources. CFES is devoted to improving the regional community and believes in people helping one another to provide positive impact. Visit CFES.org or call 410-742-9911.
Education awards are made annually in conjunction with National Education Week through a competitive process to public and private schools on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. Grants are made to those schools that have developed innovative programs to be particularly beneficial to their students and communities.
“This awards program is the Community Foundation’s principle vehicle for recognizing and rewarding those schools that are engaged in making a particularly creative contribution to the education of our children,” said Erica Joseph, CFES president. “These awards highlight truly remarkable things our dedicated teachers and school administrators are accomplishing.”
The following Worcester County schools received Education Award Grants for 2016 during ceremonies held at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s Nonprofit Support Center in Salisbury:
• Berlin Intermediate School will purchase a google expedition virtual field trip kit for 20 students.
• Pocomoke Middle School will pilot an after-school journalism club that uses social media and photography.
• Snow Hill Elementary School will partner with many community organizations to create a pilot school-operated community garden.
• Snow Hill Elementary School will pilot a core language and writing program with dynamic communication devices. This will be done in partnership with Cedar Chapel Special School.
• Snow Hill Elementary School is going to implement a mindful social and emotional needs program.
• Snow Hill High School will enhance its theater programs and create two high school theater events.
• Snow Hill Middle School will pilot a personalized learning program (PLP) for sixth grade students.
• Stephen Decatur High School will improve its Seahawk Writing Center by creating a more formalized training program for writing lab tutors
The Community Foundation honored three literacy programs with the Mary Gay Calcott Award of Excellence. The winning schools were Stephen Decatur High School, Wicomico Middle School and Bennett Middle School. In addition to the Calcott Award, these schools received grant funding from the Foundation’s Mary Gay Calcott Memorial Fund.
The award is named for the late Mary Gay Calcott, a professor of English at Salisbury University whose life embodied her ideals of teaching students to think, to express themselves with clarity and to care about the world they live in. To date, the Mary Gay Calcott Memorial Fund has awarded $10,500 to area public schools.
As leaders, grant makers and stewards of philanthropy, The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore serves the common good of the Lower Eastern Shore. CFES is a 501c3 nonprofit with an inspiring history of fostering charitable endeavors, and has provided more than $60 million in grants and scholarships to the local community since 1984.
CFES collaborates with individuals, families and businesses to match their charitable interests with community needs and strengthen local nonprofits through grants and resources. CFES is devoted to improving the regional community and believes in people helping one another to provide positive impact. Visit CFES.org or call 410-742-9911.