FPEF Grant Awards
As you read through our 2020 grants, we hope you are inspired by the educators who continue to create pioneering programs for our students. We are grateful to the donors of our endowment who make this possible. The following is a comprehensive list of grants and donors that make our students’ educational experiences unforgettable.
2020 Fall Grant Awards
Beyond Our Walls
Award Amount: $2,987.00
Fund: Becky Knight Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Promethean board to enhance the learning experience for students receiving dyslexia therapy.
Can you hear me now?
Award Amount: $1,575.00
Fund: Marie & Clark McClinton, Jackie New
Teacher Project Description: Voice amplifiers for teacher teams to support instruction while social distancing.
My Personal PE Pack
Award Amount: $2,209.54
Fund: The Spark Foundation
Teacher Project Description: We will use the unique equipment distanced in our own personal spaces to enhance mask free activity!
FPS Virtual Choir
Award Amount: $6,674.97
Fund: Ellen & Malcolm Hayward, Shannon & Terryl Ortego
Teacher Project Description: Equipment for the creation of virtual choir performances for all FPS choir members.
Promethean Power
Award Amount: $2,600.00
Fund: Holland & Bob Weaver
Teacher Project Description: Promethean boards to enhance Blended Learning.
Art Supply Kits
Award Amount: $3,400.00
Fund: Susie and Phil Stewart
Teacher Project Description: Art supplies for each student to safely create art independently from home or school.
Recess Stations
Award Amount: $1,210.29
Fund: Robbie & Clyde Selle, Nathan Altman Scholarship
Teacher Project Description: Equipment for elementary students to use during recess to allow for social distancing.
A Book Of My Own
Award Amount: $1,677.00
Fund: Bill Conrow Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie books for every 7th grade ELA student.
Art At Home!
Award Amount:$6,500.00
Fund: Tammy & Read Hudson Family
Teacher Project Description: Art supplies and equipment that can be sent home so we can continue making art virtually.
Movement During Covid
Award Amount: $420.96
Fund: Glen Conklin Foundation
Teacher Project Description: Tools for all education classrooms and Encores to support sensory-related experiences.
RISE up to Reading
Award Amount: $3,861.28
Fund: Matthew William Moore Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Raz-Kids Plus is a digital tool for all students to advance reading at their specific reading level.
Learn Without Tears
Award Amount: $1,657
Fund: Hugh Kincaid Early Childhood Education
Teacher Project Description: Handwriting Without Tears program for Washington 1st grade and Kindergarten students
Second Step Bullying Prevention
Award Amount: $6,500.00
Fund: Feriba McNair Keystone endowed by Hannah & Greg Lee
Teacher Project Description: Bullying prevention curriculum for K-6 students to promote antibullying behavior.
Boom Cards
Award Amount: $280.00
Fund: Martha Albright McCandless, First Federal Bank
Teacher Project Description: Technology tools for speech/language students.
Hands-On From a Distance
Award Amount: $2,566.15
Fund: Class of 1952
Teacher Project Description: Anatomy lab materials to provide students at FHS the ability to conduct individual experiments.
Carrots, Not Sticks
Award Amount: $2,000.00
Fund: Gable Sloan Academic Enrichment for Vulnerable Students
Teacher Project Description: Resources for at-risk K-12 students to incentivize and reinforce behavior improvements in school.
What's the Temperature of Virtual Learning?
Award Amount: $2,300.00
Fund: David J. Butt Family
Teacher Project Description: Science kits for virtual students to engage in engineering design projects and experiments.
Skelton's Post Office
Award Amount: $2,113.02
Fund: AEP Southwestern Electric
Teacher Project Description: Books, rewards, and postage to mail virtual students materials and motivation for learning.
Increasing online access for low-income adult learners
Award Amount: $5,000
Fund: Denise & Hershey Garner, Betty Lighton
Teacher Project Description: Access to online education and certification programs to increase academic and workforce skills.
Math Manipulative Kits: A Big Hit!
Award Amount: $420.00
Fund: E.J. Ball Economic Fund
Teacher Project Description: Students will receive personal math manipulative kits to supplement in-person and at-home learning!
Teaching Students Outside Through Socially Distanced Education
Award Amount: $3,618.55
Fund: Josephine S. Clark, George Spencer Memorial
Teacher Project Description: To create unique learning opportunities that occur outside the classroom.
Together we are better!
Award Amount: $10,040.00
Fund: Henrietta K. Holcomb Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Transportation, supplies, and staffing for Creative Cats in order to reconnect students to school.
COVID Performances & Beyond
Award Amount: $2,480.85
Fund: Warren Rosenaur Theatre Fund
Teacher Project Description: Equipment for theatre & personal communication students to record performances & tailor instruction.
Classroom Amplification Systems
Award Amount: $3,120.20
Fund: David Lashley
Teacher Project Description: Portable audio systems for traditional classrooms to enhance instruction delivery.
2020 Fall & 2021 Spring Pendergraft Grant Awards
Experiential Learning: Piloting Adventures through VR Expeditions
Award Amount: $11,029.51
Fund: Neal R. Pendergraft Grant
Teacher Project Description: A Google Expeditions Kit that will impact 515 Holt students this year alone, to explore a plethora of interactive, virtual experiences needed to build background knowledge in all subject areas taught.
Welding PPE for Agriculture Students in a Pandemic
Award Amount: 5,000
Fund: Neal R. Pendergraft Grant
Teacher Project Description: Purchase welding PPE so each student has appropriate PPE
Expanding Outdoor Learning Infrastructure
Award Amount: $11,500.00
Fund: Neal R. Pendergraft Grant
Teacher Project Description: Building permanent outdoor classroom infrastructure including benches, landscaping and shade.
Helping Holcomb Hornets Hear
Award Amount: $7,160.00
Fund: Neal R. Pendergraft Grant
Teacher Project Description: Instructional audio system eliminating barriers to Tier 1 classroom instruction.
2021 Spring Standard Grant Awards
Let's Build Social Skills: 3rd Grade Learning using Lego
Award Amount: $2,820.00
Fund: The Bank of Fayetteville in honor of John Lewis
Teacher Project Description: Legos for third graders to develop needed social skills.
Le Grand Concours
Award Amount: $1,400.00
Fund: Marty Thurlby Deweese Study Abroad Fund
Teacher Project Description: Registration fee to allow for equitable access to competition.
"Clearing" the Way for CTE Students to Complete CPR Certification
Award Amount: $2,000.00
Fund: Frank Broyles
Teacher Project Description: Equipment to allow for more social distancing during CPR certification.
Art for All at ALLPS
Award Amount: $646.87
Fund: Spencer Albright
Teacher Project Description: Art supplies kits for stress reduction and safety.
Robotics Equipment Upgrade
Award Amount: $2,470.00
Fund: Koenig Family Works
Teacher Project Description: New equipment to upgrade outdated robotics electronics.
PAC Theatrical Lighting Power and Data Control Update
Award Amount: $1,400.00
Fund: Upchurch Electric
Teacher Project Description: Equipment to increase use of intelligent lighting fixtures in PAC.
Highlighting Forgotten Histories: Creating Inclusive Communities
Award Amount: $4,420.02
Fund: Agee Family fund in Honor of Martha Agee, Class of 1956 Taylor-Lackey
Teacher Project Description: This project will highlight the extraordinary accomplishments of forgotten individuals.
STEAM Kits Spark Minds
Award Amount:$972.00
Fund: Jerome & Sylvia McRoy, Bob & Marilyn Gibson
Teacher Project Description: STEAM Kits for virtual learners to have hands-on learning opportunities.
Leader in Me Program at Asbell
Award Amount: $5,000.00
Fund: Treva & Howard Hamilton, Treva Hamilton
Teacher Project Description: Empowers students with leadership and life skills to thrive.
Making Interactive Learning More Interactive
Award Amount: $2,101.00
Fund: Paula Weaver, Mendy & Brandon Atkisson Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Interactive Promethean board to enhance the learning for dyslexic students.
Robotics STEM Kit for Equitable Virtual Student Learning
Award Amount: $2,531.80
Fund: J.E. & Maurice McClelland
Teacher Project Description: STEM Robotics kit for equitable virtual student learning opportunity.
Virtual Fly Tying Workshop: McNair Fly Fishing Club
Award Amount: $480.20
Fund: Blake Croxdale Memorial Fund
Teacher Project Description: Consumable fly tying materials for a virtual fly tying workshop.
F.R.I.E.N.D.S. FHS ESL Service Learning
Award Amount: $2,220.00
Fund: Matthew J. Siebenmorgen
Teacher Project Description: Leadership and literacy skills development through active community engagement
The Husky Cycle Shop
Award Amount: $4,666.42
Fund: Bob Gaddy (PACE)
Teacher Project Description: Tools for student-focused bicycle maintenance to support Holt bike program.
Equity access to calculators/technology for FVA students
Award Amount: $4,919.50
Fund: Martha Audrain Memorial, Jean Pharr Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Equitable calculator access for all levels playing field for ACT/SAT.
Music Stands
Award Amount: $1,628.96
Fund: Class of 1957 John Lewis, Bobby New
Teacher Project Description: Music stands for students.
Food, Nutrition and Literacy: "The Omnivore's Dilmena"
Award Amount: $1,484.80
Fund: Candy and Teddy Clarkwell
Teacher Project Description: Books to add more literacy education in Food and Nutrition.
Binoculars are for the Birds 2.0!
Award Amount: $4,353.46
Fund: Irma Boyer Gifted and Talended Fund
Teacher Project Description: Binoculars for students to observe birds in their natural settings.
Expanding Outdoor Learning Infrastructure at Asbell Elementary School
Award Amount: $8,000.00
Fund: Anne and Jack Butt, Mike Brunner
Teacher Project Description: Building permanent outdoor classroom infrastructure including benches, landscaping and shade.
Filling gaps in language and communication using apps for learning
Award Amount: $663.80
Fund: Katy B. Stout
Teacher Project Description: Language and communication apps can improve at-risk SPED students' skills.
At-Home Engineering Kits for Virtual/Hybrid Students
Award Amount: $527.87
Fund: Nana & Julian Stewart
Teacher Project Description: Materials for virtual/hybrid students to complete engineering activities at home.
Hotel/Motel Food Care Packages and Birthday Baskets
Award Amount: $2,808.00
Fund: Harry Vandergriff, Heather Spears Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Grab & go baskets to support students in crisis.
Tinkering Tubs
Award Amount: $2,269.76
Fund: Walton Family Foundation
Teacher Project Description: Tools for students to implement the Engineering Design Process.
New Music For FHS Band
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Fund: R.W. Willis & Simkins Family
Teacher Project Description: Allows FHS Marching Band to commission exclusive new music for the year.
Connotations
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Fund: James T. Whitehead Memorial
Teacher Project Description: Provides every student at the high school with an outlet for creative work through a literary magazine filled with student work.
Remembering the Great War: Bringing the Past to Life
Award Amount: $1,700.00
Fund: Barbara Prichard GT Fund
Teacher Project Description: Field trip to National WWI Museum for middle school GT.