Congratulations 2010 Community & School Grant Recipients!
The Washington Apple Education Foundation Farmworker Education Committee selected eleven recipients to receive funding support in 2010. Funds were awarded to school and community programs assisting farmworker families achieve scholastic success.
The WAEF selection committee evaluated applications with a focus 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.
2010 Grant Recipients:
Early Education:
La Casa Hogar (Yakima) received $3500 for their early learning program offered to children of adult program participants.
Ready by Five (Yakima) was awarded $5000 for the purchase of books for its Motheread program engaging parents of birth to five-year-old children.
Circle of Success (Yakima) was granted $4000 for sponsorship of 67 students in the Ready Home! Ready Child! book-a-month club.
Catholic Family Services (Wenatchee) received $5000 to fund their Monitor Migrant Camp early education program.
Cascade School District (Peshastin) was selected to receive $3160 to purchase kits and supplies for parents of three- and four-year-old students preparing for kindergarten.
Dual Language Learning:
Lewis and Clark Elementary (Wenatchee) received $5643 to use for the school’s six week after school intervention program and for its 12 week ESL and SSL adult language immersion program.
Moxee Elementary was awarded $2300 to purchase library and classroom supplies in Spanish for its dual language student body.
At-Risk Youth:
Central Washington University received $3000 for the Breaking Boundaries program in Brewster helping Hispanic male and female teens build self-esteem and learn about life’s opportunities.
Adult ESL:
Lake Chelan School District was selected to receive $2904 for its parent empowerment program. Friends of Buena Library received $2470 for an eight week Adult ESL course concentrating on basic conversation and job related communication.
The Literacy Council of Chelan and Douglas Counties (Wenatchee) received $3000 for supplies, tutor and student trainings and the hiring of an AmeriCorps member.
Funding for the Community & School Educational Grants and the Farmworker/Ag Worker Program is provided by:
Jim Matson Memorial Fund
Applications for 2011 funding are due March 15, 2011. Please review Grant Guidelines before submitting application.
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