Each year, the EGEF raises money and disperses those funds to worthy causes in the district after school staff members submit grant applications.

This year, the foundation received its highest amount of applications since 2008, and seven recipients were chosen, receiving over $50,000 in total. Susan Riley, who was recently appointed to EGEF president after working on the board, said the recipients chosen are all innovative, sustainable projects that the schools can continue to improve upon and expand in the future, allowing the schools to continue to benefit from the funds for years to come.

“We had a very big year of receiving grant proposals this year,” she said. The grant will allow the school to improve programs that allow students to gain an understanding of the Narragansett Bay.A

“It’s an amazing program that they’re doing, school-wide, which is amazing,” said Riley. ‘

“It’s bringing in a program that is not taught already in the classroom, so it just seemed like a really amazing opportunity for all of those students to participate in something that gets them closer to a science and global impact studies class that’s also fun,” she continued.A

Several projects being funded are based on purchasing new equipment and creating a modern learning environment for students, including “goldilocks chairs” at Frenchtown, where teachers will arrange classroom space for dynamic seating alternatives, a 21st Century Learning Environment at Eldredge where workstations will be provided for mobility, and desk pedals at Hanaford which will resemble bike pedals that will go under the desks of students so they can keep their legs moving throughout the day.A

“It’s really taking a look at how children are learning, and how to get them to better focus in a classroom environment,” said Riley.

“It’s amazing that we’re able to have these types of solutions in classrooms for the students,” she continued.A

Also at Hanaford, fourth-graders will take writing “into the 21st century’, by the use of applications that will enhance their current skills, and in the middle and high school, students will have access to an application that will allow them to track their personal fitness and software that will support reading and studying.A

The teachers and faculty that received grants for projects in the district will be able to implement their plans for the upcoming year.A

“The teachers that submitted this year and the faculty that put these together thought about them long and hard, spent time on them,” said Riley.

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Garfield and Stevenson elementary schools have received a grant from leader.org to implement the The Leader in Me program

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Herring learned about the Buddhist Relief Foundation from a fellow volunteer a a nurse named Nicole Groleau who is a practicing Buddhist.

aI consider this a classic example of how this organization really is nondenominational,a Herring said, noting that they have volunteers of many different faiths.A

An initial conversation between Herring and the foundation’s executive director revealed some important information.

She had been interested in obtaining an education grant to help Nicaraguan children but learned the organization only sponsors females.A

aIf I wrote the grant for education of schoolchildren, it would have been rejected,a she said.A

To write it specifically for girls matched some of her own concerns about the treatment of women in impoverished Nicaraguan communities and her desire to provide educational opportunities.

aEducation is key for us to promote human rights among women and to fight poverty,a Herring said.A

Florida’s colleges and universities receive funding or have it withheld based on a number of measures intended to indicate how well a school graduates its students and fills employment needs. SCF also offers many extracurricular opportunities for our students in any number of clubs or teams like our national runner-up Brain Bowl team that enhance the college experience and bond students to the institution.

“Where graduates went to college hardly matters to their current well-being and work lives in comparison to their experiences in college.”

The study found that a student’s success is determined by the quality of the time they spend in college, not the school’s size or pedigree. Well, Gulf Coast Community Foundation just awarded 451 scholarships worth $544,000 to help hundreds of local students pursue their college dreams next year.

The other inspiring story behind the stories of our scholarship recipients is that of our donors, who directly invest in improving students’ lives through their scholarship funds.

The students who just received our scholarship awards are this community’s future.

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Review: Grant Park Orchestra offers more enterprising fare – Chicago Tribune Carlos Kalmar

Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra in a performance June 15, 2016, at the Grant Park Music Festival at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.

Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra in a performance June 15, 2016, at the Grant Park Music Festival at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.

(Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)

Longtime listeners to classical music in Chicago will recall a time when the fall concert season stimulated with interesting repertory and summer venues entertained with warhorses.

Now that has largely reversed; the Grant Park Music Festival regularly presents unfamiliar music ignored by other ensembles, surpassing them in enterprise while approaching them in the polish of standard repertory.

Saturday at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park; free; 312-742-7647; gpmf.org.

Alan Artner is a freelance critic.

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Annapolis High School work to rule protest Teachers walk out of Annapolis High School in a group at 3 pm in a show of solidarity and a work to rule protest. Teachers walk out of Annapolis High School in a group at 3 pm in a show of solidarity and a work to rule protest. School officials may have concluded the challenge grants weren’t doing enough to discourage turnover at high-poverty schools, and teachers union officials may have concluded their top priority must be across-the-board raises for those they represent, but we continue to believe these schools are losing too many instructors. Korbelak points out that federal funds may become available to offer challenge grants in elementary schools next year.

So we’re hoping the program can be brought back stronger and better, and that the opportunity provided by the state law will eventually benefit schools that need a helping hand.

Cambridge Arts Council receives grant for Midwest Fire Fest – Cambridge News / Deerfield Independent: Cambridge News / Deerfield Independent Cambridge Arts Council receives grant for Midwest Fire Fest

The Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission announced June 7 the awarding of 62 project and short order grants totaling $110,194 for community arts, cultural and local history programs and five capital grants in the amount of $4,857.

The Cambridge Arts Council was awarded $1,530 for the inaugural Midwest Fire Fest, a celebration of all arts a visual and culinary a that are created with fire.

The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad will be the “hub” for celebrating Make Music Day in San Diego June 21.

CARLSBAD The walls will be alive with the sounds of, well whoever’s inside of them.

When the world celebrates Make Music Day Tuesday, the Museum of Making Music will be, appropriately enough, celebrating right along with them by offering several opportunities to make music, including a unique, one-day only exhibit called the Infinity Chamber.

The Infinity Chamber, though, might possibly be one of the most challenging of “instruments” to play. The event that started in 1982 in France has now become a worldwide event, hosted in 700 cities in 120 countries, according to the Make Music Day website.

Last year, the museum saw about 500 musicians and music lovers come through their doors to take part in the number of activities all about music, explained Carolyn Grant, the museum’s executive director.

The museum will in a sense, serve as the “hub” for Make Music Day in San Diego this year.

“We’re hoping that people will come from far and wide here to celebrate music day,” Grant said.

While the museum celebrates music year round, Tuesday’s Make Music Day will only help to shine a spotlight on the fact that anybody can make music, Grant explained.

“Whether you’re a lifetime music maker or you’ve never touched an instrument in your life, this is an opportunity to get up close with an instrument or just to hear music played right in front of you,” she said.

But for those sounds coming from novice musicians, it could get messy.

And just what is that difference between making noise and making music?

“Noise is not organized,” said Warren. Music has a message,” he said.

Music, he added, is “emotions turned into sound.”

In New York City, the Make Music Day celebration has been taken to soaring levels of participation with more than 1,200 concerts on the streets, sidewalks and parks throughout.

It’s a scene that Grant is hoping will catch on in San Diego at some point.

“I think there’s a lot of music happening in San Diego and there’s a lot of support for it.

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