Community & School Grants

Congratulations 2011 Community & School Grant Recipients!

Twelve recipients were selected this year to receive grants for their activities fostering and promoting scholastic success for farmworkers and their families.   In total $27,000 was awarded in community & school grants to program providers through the WAEF Farmworker/Ag Worker Education program this year.

The WAEF selection committee made award decisions focusing on the four key priorities of the grant program: to reduce high school drop-out rates and improve higher level education achievement rates of at-risk students; to improve long-term learning outcomes through access to effective early education programs; to increase economic self-sufficiency and further generational upward mobility; and to improve cross-cultural communications through English language literacy. 

2011 Grant Recipients:

Early Education
Orondo School District’s Ready for Kindergarten program received $3550 for program supplies and staffing needs.
Catholic Family & Child Services Child Care Resource & Referral received $2000 each for the needs of their Monitor Play & Learn and Toppenish Play & Learn programs.
La Casa Hogar (Yakima Interfaith Coalition) received $2000 for early education preparedness for families involved in adult programs through the home.
Yakima Neighborhood Health received $1000 for the purchase of books for young patients learning to read.

Dual Language Learning
Moxee Elementary was awarded $2224 to purchase library and classroom supplies in Spanish for its dual language student body.

At-Risk Youth
Central Washington University received $2500 for the Breaking Boundaries program in Brewster helping Hispanic male and female teens build self-esteem and learn about life’s opportunities.
Columbia Elementary School (Wenatchee) received $2500 for an accelerated reading program.
Cascade School District (Leavenworth) received $1500 for the hiring of a Spanish-speaking tutor in the after-school program.

Adult ESL
Lake Chelan School District was selected to receive $2904 for its parent empowerment program.
Friends of Buena Library received $2452 for an eight-week Adult ESL course concentrating on basic conversation and job related communication.
Literacy Council of Chelan and Douglas Counties (Wenatchee) received $3000 for student program needs.

WAEF partners with others in the community to provide funding for the Farmworker/Ag Worker Education Program.  Thank you to corporate donors Costco Wholesale, Jim Matson Memorial Fund, Oneonta Trading Corporation, U.S. Bancorp Foundation, Washington Fruit and Produce Company and Wells Fargo for your contributions that make these awards possible.