FPEF Grant Awards
As you read through our 2021 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.
2021 Fall Grant Awards
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.
Interventions to Go
Award Amount: $635.68
Teacher Project Description: Portable intervention for at-risk students with less instructional time lost.
Stay at School Field Trips
Award Amount: $2,905.00
Teacher Project Description: Kindergarten at School Field Trips will provide enhanced learning experiences.
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.
We are Citizen Scientists
Award Amount: $1,482.40
Teacher Project Description: Equipment and tools for data collecting and real science practices.
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.
Generation Genius: Serving Serious Science Students
Award Amount: $1,150.00
Teacher Project Description: Science resources to increase student learning, engagement, and performance.
"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.
ESL Library
Award Amount: $866.11
Teacher Project Description: Classroom library that will include stories that resonate with the different background and cultures.
Safety in Numbers
Award Amount: $1,167.32
Teacher Project Description: Student lap desks to make possible social distancing in our studio.
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.
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.
Ka-ching! Good behavior pays off
Award Amount: $1,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Materials and equipment for a positive behavior school store.
Music Making for Many Hands
Award Amount: $4,047.99
Teacher Project Description: Restock and replace smaller instruments to have a class set.
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.
Woodland Jr. High Podcasting Studio
Award Amount: $3,653.00
Teacher Project Description: A podcast studio to encourage students to use their voice.
Classroom Sets of Safe Headphones
Award Amount: $500.00
Teacher Project Description: Purchase headphones with protective bags to help maintain sanitary equipment.
IPads for JDC, Round 2!
Award Amount: $2,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Replenishing arsenal of iPads for all of our students.
Books in Every Hand
Award Amount: $1,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Books for classroom library.
The Breakfast Club: Viewpoints and Perspectives
Award Amount: $3,000.00
Teacher Project Description: Arts integration activities fostering skills for life, school, and career.
Binoculars for young ornithologists
Award Amount: $2,474.00
Teacher Project Description: Binoculars for bird watchers and ornithologists.
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.
2020 Fall & 2021 Spring Pendergraft Grant Awards
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.
Empower, uplift, and motivate African American Males
Award Amount: $10,400.00
Teacher Job Description: Empower, uplift, and motivate African American Males.
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.