The following a list of Education
Grants that were awarded between
July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007
- Allen Dale Elementary School, Grants Pass
- Amount $2,500
- Purpose: For a combined fitness/nature trail at the school.
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Area Health Education Center of SW OR, Winston
- Amount:
$5,000
- Purpose: For costs associated with the practicum portion of
the health care interpreter program at RCC.
- Ashland Schools Foundation, Ashland
- Amount: $5,000
- Purpose:To renovate an historic barn at the Willow Wind
Learning Center to be used as a multi-use
performance space.
- Central Point School District, Central Point
- Amount: $1,420
- Purpose: To equip a classroom for special education
students to learn and practice life skills.
- Community Works, Medford
- Amount: $15,000
- Purpose: To provide fine arts and theatre arts classes to the
students enrolled at CrossRoads Alternative School.
- Eagle Mill Farming Education Project, Ashland
- Amount: $2,500
- Purpose: For a program teaching youth about gardening and
nutrition.
- Interschool Television, Grants Pass
- Amount: $5,000
- Purpose: Toward the purchase of digital video cameras and
equipment to produce a series of student-led
television interviews with WWII veterans.
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- Ja Co Assoc for Educ. of Young Children, Ashland
- Amount: $15,000
- Purpose: For scholarships and incentives to childcare
providers to pursue continuing education in the
field of early childhood
- Kids & Critters, Inc., Medford
- Amount: $3,000
- Purpose: To create new interactive exhibits and play areas
and to provide fundraising consultant services.
- Kids' Imagination Discovery Station, Medford
- Amount: $10,000
- Purpose: To develop curriculum incorporating the Oregon
Benchmarks for kindergarten through 3rd grade.
- Lomakatsi Restoration Project, Ashland
- Amount: $4,000
- Purpose: For a program with local schools, involving students
in the forest and watershed restoration process.
- Mac Field Boosters, Butte Falls
- Amount: $9,500
- Purpose: For salary & materials to construct a 16-foot
sloop in the high school shop.
- Madrone Trail Initiative, Medford
- Amount: $7,500
- Purpose: To purchase furniture, toys, and equipment for
grades K-2 in a new Waldorf style charter school.
- Manhattan Theatre Club, New York
- Amount: $2,500
- Purpose: To continue a distance-learning theatre arts/
playwriting program at Ashland High School.
- Oregon Community Foundation, for
Crater Lake National Park Trust Fund, Portland
- Amount: $5,000
- Purpose:To support and expand the educational programs at
Crater Lake.
- Oregon Independent College Foundation, Portland
- Amount: $6,500
- Purpose: To provide scholarships for students from Southern
OR to attend private colleges in Oregon.
- Oregon Museum of Science & Industry OMSI, Portland
- Amount: $2,500
- Purpose: To bring a hands-on science education program to
schools in Jackson and Josephine Counties.
- Oregon State University Foundation, Corvallis
- Amount: $5,000
- Purpose: To support local mental health providers to
participate in a statewide leadership program.
- OSU Extension Service So OR, Central Point
- Amount: $10,000
- Purpose: For a hands-on natural science program at various
after-school care sites.
- Phoenix-Talent School District, Phoenix
- Amount: $8,500
- Purpose: For scholarships for Latino youths to attend
Academia Latina at SOU
- Rogue Community College, Medford and Grants Pass
- Amount: $25,000
- Purpose: For Jackson & Josephine County student scholarships
2005-2006.
- Rogue Valley Foundation, Medford
- Amount: $6,000
- Purpose: To provide scholarships to local Latino youth to
attend Oregon colleges and universities.
- Roots & Wings Child Development, Medford
- Amount: $4,000
- Purpose: To implement board and organizational assessment
and board training.
- Science Works Hands-On Museum, Ashland
- Amount: $10,000
- Purpose: To develop a bilingual educational traveling exhibit
exploring the science of sound.
- Siskiyou Field Institute, Selma
- Amount: $6,000
- Purpose: To expand marketing and outreach for the Naturalist
Certificate Program in conjunction with RCC.
- SMART (Start Making A Reader Today), Portland
- Amount: $5,000
- Purpose: For costs associated with operating the SMART
program in 30 local schools.
- Southern OR Education Service District, Medford
- Amount: $21,000
- Purpose: For staffing associated with the LISTO after-school
family literacy program.
- Southern Oregon University, Ashland
- Amount: $25,000
- Purpose: In support of faculty development opportunities which
improve teaching.
- Washington Elementary School, Medford
- Amount: $7,500
- Purpose: Toward the purchase and installation of a new
playground structure.
- Total Amount Dispersed
- Amount: $331,418
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