FPEF Grant Awards
As you read through our Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 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.
2022 Spring Standard Grant Awards
Factory Robotics in the Classroom
Award Amount: $5,498.00
Fund: Upchurch Electric Fund, Bob Gaddy (PACE) Fund
Teacher Project Description: Two robotics workcell kits to simulate manufacturing robotics workcell.
Bringing Modern Flight into Flight & Space
Award Amount: $2,436.40
Fund: Koenig Family Works Fund, AEP Southwestern Electric Fund
Teacher Project Description: Modern flight tools for realistic student experiences.
How are you FEELING? A collaborative SEL mural
Award Amount: $1,818.00
Fund: Denise & Hershey Garner Fund
Teacher Project Description: Materials for learning emotional awareness through a community art project.
Future Architects
Award Amount: $5,250.00
Fund: Donna Hayden Lyles Fund
Teacher Project Description: Books, Arckit building sets, and supplies to practice architect processes.
SPIKE kits to explore real-life situations with robotics and coding
Award Amount: $1,673.85
Fund: J.E. & Maurice McClelland Fund
Teacher Project Description: SPIKE kits to explore real-life situations with robotics and coding
Student Socialization, Sensory and Engagement Room
Award Amount: $747.13
Fund: Glen Conklin Foundation Fund
Teacher Project Description: Enhancing current sensory room to accommodate all SPED students
Technology In Statistics and Transitional Math
Award Amount: $5,450.00
Fund: Robbie & Clyde Selle Fund, Martha Audrain Memorial Fund
Teacher Project Description: This proposal is for purchasing updated Ti 84 Calculators.
Bright Light: The impact of light spectrum on plant growth.
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Fund: Matthew Siebenmorgen Fund, Matthew Moore Memorial Fund
Teacher Project Description: Lighting sources and quantitative/qualitative plant growth evaluation equipment.
Standing Work Station for Collaboration, Movement, and Project Resource Equity
Award Amount: $2,067.20
Fund: Johnny & Tamara Roberts Family Fund
Teacher Project Description: Resources and space for students to create ELA projects equitably.
Fitness Finders for Holcomb Hornets
Award Amount: $1,173.16
Fund: The Spark Foundation Fund
Teacher Project Description: Physical activity tracking program to promote health/academics/character.
Graphic Novels for Deeper Understanding
Award Amount: $700.00
Fund: Mathra Albright McCandless Fund, Spencer Albright Fund, First Federal Bank Fund
Teacher Project Description: Tools to enhance the understanding of literature and literary elements.
Work safer, not harder: Upgrading the New Construction Fundamentals Lab
Award Amount: $6,000.00
Fund: Nancy & Larry Bittle Family Keystone Grant
Teacher Project Description: Safer tools and dust collection for construction students
Safe Spaces and Reward Centers: Teaching Self-Regulation and Goal Setting
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Fund: Jan Thurow Memorial Fund
Teacher Project Description: Safe spaces for every classroom and two reward stations
Adaptive Swing Installation for Vandergriff Playground.
Award Amount: $750.00
Fund: Harry Vandergriff Fund
Teacher Project Description: To install a new adaptive swing chair for the playground.
Headphones for Classrooms
Award Amount: $500.00
Fund:
Teacher Project Description: Classrooms are needing headphones so all students have access
2021 Fall Grant Awards
Diversity Business Tour
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Fund: Class of 1956 - Taylor Lackey Fund, Class of 1957 - John Lewis
Teacher Project Description: Fields trips to discover and connect with diverse communities.
Empowering Visually Impaired Students through Technology
Award Amount: $5,354.00
Fund: Becky Knight Memorial Fund
Teacher Project Description: Secure technology and curriculum that support students in excelling.
Creating Collaborative Math Places & Spaces
Award Amount: $4,000.00
Fund: Treva & Howard Hamilton Fund, Treva Hamilton Fund
Teacher Project Description: Dry-erase tables and hands-on games to engage students in math.
The Breakfast Club 2.0: Transformational after-school mentorship for students at-risk.
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Fund: Heather Spears Fund, Agee Family Fund in Honor of Martha Agee
Teacher Project Description: Transformational mentorship of at-risk teens to improve academics and behaviors.
Equitable Opportunities to Participate in Authentic Cultural and Scientific Experiences
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Fund: Josephine S. Clark Memorial Fund, Nana & Julian Stewart Fund
Teacher Project Description: Equitable opportunities for students to access cultural and conservation experiences.
Spanish Book Lunch Club to Increase English Proficiency
Award Amount: $500.00
Fund: Holland & Bob Weaver Fund, Marty Thurlby Deweese Fund
Teacher Project Description: Spanish fiction and non-fiction texts to support English Learners.
Strategic Thinking
Award Amount: $2,365.00
Fund: Irma Boyer Gifted & Talented Fund
Teacher Project Description: Students will utilize advanced problem solving and critical thinking skills to examine the strategies and mathematics behind games.
Spring Play Production
Award Amount: $1,113.00
Fund: Warren Rosenaur Theatre Fund
Teacher Project Description: Spring Play Production
Connotations Literary Magazine
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Fund: James T. Whitehead Memorial Fund
Teacher Project Description: The grant will pay for the printing of our magazine.
New Music for FHS Band
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Fund: R.W. Willis & Simkins Family Fund
Teacher Project Description: Grant will be used for new music for the Fayetteville High School Band
Embracing the 21st Century
Award Amount: $1,200.00
Fund: Pendergraft Technology Fund
Teacher Project Description:
Bringing Stories to Life with Puppets
Award Amount: $350.00
Fund:
Teacher Project Description: Puppets for enhancing engagement in visual and performing arts.
New "Home" Move In Kits
Award Amount: $1,300.00
Fund:
Teacher Project Description: Household items to furnish new "homes" for homeless students
Ka-ching! Good behavior pays off
Award Amount: $1,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Materials and equipment for a positive behavior school store.
Fund: E.J. Ball Economic Fund
Music Making for Many Hands
Award Amount: $4,047.99
Teacher Project Description: Restock and replace smaller instruments to have a class set.
Fund: Ellen & Malcolm Hayward Fund, Mendy & Brandon Atkisson Memorial Fund
Preventing Disparity by Paving Pathways: An Outdoor Classroom Project
Award Amount: $2,200.00
Teacher Project Description: Create learning pathways through our existing outdoor classroom space.
Fund: Mike Brunner Fund
Woodland Jr. High Podcasting Studio
Award Amount: $3,653.00
Teacher Project Description: A podcast studio to encourage students to use their voice.
Fund: Anne & Jack Butt Fund, The Bank of Fayetteville Fund In Honor of John Lewis
Classroom Sets of Safe Headphones
Award Amount: $500.00
Teacher Project Description: Purchase headphones with protective bags to help maintain sanitary equipment.
Fund: Susie & Phil Stewart Fund
Books in Every Hand
Award Amount: $1,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Books for classroom library.
Fund: Barnhart - Eichmann Family Fund
The Breakfast Club: Viewpoints and Perspectives
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Arts integration activities fostering skills for life, school, and career.
Fund: David Lashley Fund, Tammy & Read Hudson Family Fund
Binoculars for young ornithologists
Award Amount: $2,474.00
Teacher Project Description: Binoculars for bird watchers and ornithologists.
Fund: Barbara Prichard Gifted & Talented Fund
Is there a (STATs) Medic in the house?
Award Amount: $1,477.00
Teacher Project Description: Hands-on program to help students prep for the AP Statistics Exam.
Fund: Jean Pharr Memorial Fund
Rock Climbing Across Curriculums - Science, Math, English, and Outdoor Education
Award Amount: $3,215.00
Teacher Project Description: Rock climbing equipment to create alternative experiences through multiple classes.
Fund: George Spencer Memorial Fund, Blake Croxdale Creative Writing Fund
Integrating Technology and Modeling into Studies of the Human Body
Award Amount: $6,516.52
Teacher Project Description: Equipment for students to authentically measure physiological and anatomical variables.
Fund: Frank Broyles Fund, Marie & Clark McClinton Fund
Interventions to Go
Award Amount: $635.68
Teacher Project Description: Portable intervention for at-risk students with less instructional time lost.
Fund: Katy B. Stout Fund, Paula Weaver Fund
Stay at School Field Trips
Award Amount: $2,905.00
Teacher Project Description: Kindergarten at School Field Trips will provide enhanced learning experiences.
Fund: Hugh Kincaid Early Childhood Education Fund
Creating Nature-Inspired Art in an Outdoor Classroom
Award Amount: $5,700.00
Teacher Project Description: Supplies for a portable outdoor classroom and nature-based Art curriculum.
Fund: Betty Lighton Fund, Class of 1952 Fund, Bill Conrow Memorial Fund
We are Citizen Scientists
Award Amount: $1,482.40
Teacher Project Description: Equipment and tools for data collecting and real science practices.
Fund: David J. Butt Family Fund
Connect and Compose with Color in Music Class
Award Amount: $2,990.00
Teacher Project Description: Sets of colorful glockenspiels and drums to increase student engagement.
Fund: Shannon & Terryl Ortego Fund, Jackie New Fund
Generation Genius: Serving Serious Science Students
Award Amount: $1,150.00
Teacher Project Description: Science resources to increase student learning, engagement, and performance.
Fund: Feriba McNair Memorial Endowed by Hannah & Greg Lee
"Technotherapy" will combine technology and therapy to help students thrive
Award Amount: $2,385.00
Teacher Project Description: Promethean board to provide integrative, adaptive, & multisensory dyslexia therapy.
Fund: Walton Family Foundation Fund, Bobby New Fund
ESL Library
Award Amount: $866.11
Teacher Project Description: Classroom library that will include stories that resonate with the different background and cultures.
Fund: Jerome & Sylvia McRoy, Bob & Marilyn Gibson Fund
Safety in Numbers
Award Amount: $1,167.32
Teacher Project Description: Student lap desks to make possible social distancing in our studio.
Fund: Henrietta K. Holcomb Memorial Fund
That's me!: creating multicultural libraries in the classroom
Award Amount: $8,400.00
Teacher Project Description: Multicultural books used for equitable instruction and independent reading.
Fund: Nathan Altman Fund, Candy & Teddy Clarkwell Fund
2021 Fall & 2022 Spring Pendergraft Grant Awards
Empower, uplift, and motivate African American Males
Award Amount: $10,400.00
Fund: Neal R. Pendergraft Fund
Teacher Job Description: Empower, uplift, and motivate African American Males.
From Ephemera to Enduring Images: A Printmaking Journey
Award Amount: $10,777.56
Fund: Neal R. Pendergraft Fund
Teacher Project Description: Printmaking equipment for connecting tradition with 21st-century skills.
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If you have questions about our Grants, contact Emma Pierce, Director of Operations and Programs
479-527-3655