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
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
Teacher Project Description: Voice amplifiers for teacher teams to support instruction while social distancing.
My Personal PE Pack
Award Amount: $2,209.54
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
Teacher Project Description: Equipment for the creation of virtual choir performances for all FPS choir members.
Promethean Power
Award Amount: $2,600.00
Teacher Project Description: Promethean boards to enhance Blended Learning.
Art Supply Kits
Award Amount: $3,400.00
Teacher Project Description: Art supplies for each student to safely create art independently from home or school.
Recess Stations
Award Amount: $1,210.29
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
Teacher Project Description: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie books for every 7th grade ELA student.
Art At Home!
Award Amount:$6,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Art supplies and equipment that can be sent home so we can continue making art virtually.
How Do I Stay in my Seat?
Award Amount: $420.96
Teacher Project Description: Tools for all education classrooms and Encores to support sensory-related experiences.
Raz Rocket Reading
Award Amount: $3,861.28
Teacher Project Description: Digital reading resources for all K-4 students at Root Elementary
Learn Without Tears
Award Amount: $1,657
Teacher Project Description: Handwriting Without Tears program for Washington 1st grade and Kindergarten students
PPE for Agriculture Class
Award Amount: $5,000
Teacher Project Description: Personal protective equipment for students welding in various Agriculture classes.
Second Step Bullying Prevention
Award Amount: $6,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Bullying prevention curriculum for K-6 students to promote antibullying behavior.
Boom Cards
Award Amount: $280.00
Teacher Project Description: Technology tools for speech/language students.
Hands-On From a Distance
Award Amount: $2,566.15
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
Teacher Project Description: Resources for at-risk K-12 students to incentivize and reinforce behavior improvements in school.
How HOT is science?
Award Amount: $2,300.00
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
Teacher Project Description: Books, rewards, and postage to mail virtual students materials and motivation for learning.
Online Certifications
Award Amount: $5,000
Teacher Project Description: Access to online education and certification programs to increase academic and workforce skills.
Math Manipulative Kits
Award Amount: $420.00
Teacher Project Description: Students will receive personal math manipulative kits to supplement in-person and at-home learning!
6 Feet Outdoor Education
Award Amount: $3,618.55
Teacher Project Description: Equipment for Outdoor Ed students to do large sections of learning outside.
Learn Outdoors
Award Amount: $11,500.00
Teacher Project Description: Materials to create outdoor learning spaces at high need schools.
Together we are better!
Award Amount: $10,040.00
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
Teacher Project Description: Equipment for theatre & personal communication students to record performances & tailor instruction.
Our Voice
Award Amount: $3,120.20
Teacher Project Description: Portable audio systems for traditional classrooms to enhance instruction delivery.
2020 Spring Pendergraft Grant Awards
Experiential Learning: Piloting Adventures through VR Expeditions
Award Amount: $11,029.51
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.
Funded by: Neal R. Pendergraft Grant
2020 Spring Standard Grant Awards
Igniting Youth Research-A Science Symposium
Award Amount: $3670.00
Teacher Project Description: Lab equipment and professional research poster printing materials for hosting the first annual Science Symposium where FHS students will display their individual research endeavors.
Funded by: Anne & Jack Butt
Choose Love Through Action
Award Amount: $2431.23
Teacher Project Description: High-quality literature and resources to support teachers, students and parents as they apply strategies from the four main components of the Choose Love Social-Emotional Learning program: courage, gratitude, forgiveness, compassion in action.
Funded by: Denise & Hershey Garner
Gardening with Robots
Award Amount: $5045.00
Teacher Project Description: FarmBot CNC farming machine for FHS agriculture students to learn about programming, motors and drives, automation, and precision agriculture.
Funded by: Matthew J. Siebenmorgen, Tammy & Read Hudson Family
The Calming Space
Award Amount: $1700.00
Teacher Project Description: Tools for multi-sensory room to provide sensory integration and self-regulation skills to students in order to de-escalate behaviors, teach calming strategies, and return to general education classroom for meaningful participation.
Funded by: Becky Knight Memorial
Science Equipment for Family and Consumer Sciences
Award Amount: $6500.00
Teacher Project Description: Science equipment for Family and Consumer Science classes to investigate food and nutrition.
Funded by: David Lashley, Treva Hamilton
Squeeze Please!
Award Amount: $946.99
Teacher Project Description: This project will provide students access to deep pressure therapy that will help them cope with different forms of stress, anxieties and sensory needs within school.
Funded by: Glen Conklin Foundation
True Lit Festival
Award Amount: $5277.00
Teacher Project Description: In partnership with the Fayetteville Public Library, FPEF introduces notable author, Kwame Alexander, to all 9th-grade students at Fayetteville High School.
Funded by: Jim Blair Author Series