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Community Foundation Awards $57,000 in Education Grants
Twenty-four school programs on Lower Eastern Shore receive funding
November 18, 2011
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore honored Maryland Lower Shore schools and educators with $57,000 in grants through the Foundation’s 2011 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 Don Taylor, Foundation Board Vice-Chair. “These awards recognize truly remarkable things our dedicated teachers and school administrators are accomplishing,” he added.
Calcott Award of Excellence
The Community Foundation honored the Wicomico County T.A.D. Program with the Seventh Annual Mary Gay Calcott Award of Excellence. The award was presented to the T.A.D. Program for Issues Investigation: Climate Science, an in-depth program highlighting the issues of climate change. The program will serve 3rd – 5th grade students in the T.A.D. gifted and talented program in Wicomico County. Approximately 280 students in 11 Wicomico County public schools will participate. In addition to the Calcott Award, the T.A.D. Program also received $500 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 teaching ideals of liberal education; teaching students to think, to express themselves with clarity, and to care about the world they live in.
The following 24 programs received Education Award Grants for 2011 during ceremonies held at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s Nonprofit Support Center in Salisbury:
In Somerset County:
- Carter G. Woodson Elementary School – Read Naturally Live software program
- Carter G. Woodson Elementary School – iPads2: Teaching to the Next Generation
- Carter G. Woodson Elementary School – FIRST Lego Team
- Holly Grove Christian School – Promethean board
- Somerset County Public Schools – Challenge of Champions
- Somerset County Public Schools – Somerset County Voyager Afterschool Program
- Somerset Intermediate School – Quest Community Outreach Program
- Washington High School & Academy – iPad Math Project
In Wicomico County:
- East Salisbury Elementary School – Exploring Non-Fiction Text
- Fruitland Primary School – Self-Regulation Program
- James M. Bennett High School – Promoting Positive Preschooler Development through Literacy and Art
- Lower Eastern Shore Children’s Center – Improving Student Achievement with the NEO2
- North Salisbury Elementary School – Lady Mustangs Program
- Wicomico County TAD Program – Issues Investigation: Climate Science
- Northwestern Elementary School – Change of Equation Program
- Pittsville Elementary & Middle School – Play It Forward
- Prince Street Elementary School – Nothin’ but Net
- Prince Street Elementary School – Skateboard Challenge
- Salisbury Middle School – The A-Team Project
- St. Francis de Sales Catholic School – SMART Board Technology
- Wicomico Mentoring Project – The Youth Career Tours Program
In Worcester County:
- Cedar Chapel Special School – Communication for all Students
- Snow Hill Middle School – Young Author’s Project
- Snow Hill Middle School – “Thumbs Up Club” “Young Men United” Programs
About The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore: The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) is the community foundation serving the Lower Shore of Maryland since 1984, granting more than $27 million over the past ten years. Through the generosity and vision of our donors, CFES awarded grants totaling more than $3.5 million in fiscal year 2011. CFES brings together donors and builds on community assets through scholarships, grants, advocacy, and leadership development. By focusing on people, organizations, neighborhoods, and nonprofit capacity building, the Foundation addresses community needs in the areas of health, education, arts and culture, community development, and the environment. In response to the economic downturn, CFES is currently focusing funding on safety net partner organizations. The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore serves Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties. For more information, visit www.cfes.org.
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore honored Maryland Lower Shore schools and educators with $57,000 in grants through the Foundation’s 2011 Education Award Grants Program.
