East Grand Rapids Schools Foundation in Michigan Funds 30 Fall Grants Totaling Nearly $85,000: Awards Span All Five District Schools, With About $800,000 Planned for the School Year
East Grand Rapids, Michigan — The East Grand Rapids Schools Foundation announced on November 5, 2026, that it is funding thirty classroom and experiential grants this fall totaling nearly $85,000. The grants will fund programs and projects at all three East Grand Rapids Public Schools elementary schools, the middle school, and the high school.
Including grants, program support, professional development, teacher awards and student scholarships, the foundation said it plans to provide approximately $800,000 to East Grand Rapids Public Schools this school year, including $400,000 as part of a multi-year, multimillion-dollar commitment to the new high school.
The thirty grants approved this fall include new and refurbished devices for use in chemistry classes at the high school, funding for a team-building camp experience for sixth graders, and a "Salmon in the Classroom" project that Breton Downs fifth-grade teacher Chiara Hemsley is working on with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Other elementary grants will help fund school musicals, Bright Star Theatre professional performances, storage cabinets for indoor recess equipment, an "Immerse" Grand Rapids Public Museum experience, and a Bucket Drumming music project. Middle school grants cover robotics, Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports conference attendance, sensory inclusion art materials, choir accompanists, and water quality measurement devices for science classes. High school grants cover a band trip to Orlando, digital cameras for photography classes, a drama club trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 3D printers, air quality sensors, an iPad for interactive math lessons, hands-on modeling tools for biology, ceramics glazes, document-based history curricula, communications technology for the Performing Arts Center, Science Olympiad, a keyboard and amp for the Jazz Band, and cameras for the yearbook.
The foundation said it will consider a second round of grant applications at its March 2027 board meeting.
来源链接： https://egrsf.org/events/news-events.html/article/2026/11/05/foundation-funding-30-fall-grants
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