Grants Awarded

Whole Kids Foundation 2021 School Garden Grant

• $3,000 in collaboration with educators and staff at Fuller Elementary School to support school garden improvements, supplies and programming

FIRST New Hampshire FTC Rookie Team Grant

• $2,250 Grants to start new FIRST robotics team with funding to support registration, kit materials, professional development, and a stipend for teacher coaches.

Monadnock Understands Childhood Hunger (MUCH) COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund

• $2,500 to implement “Food Hub Fridays”; a program using the Symonds School Garden as a center for providing meal kits using garden produce along with non-perishables, recipes and educational materials, intended to address food insecurity in our community due to COVID-19 in the summer of 2020

NH Audubon 2020 Schoolyard Grant

• $1,500 in collaboration with Child Development Center Director Deirdre McPartlin to enhance the nature-based educational features of the schoolyard

Whole Kids Foundation 2020 School Garden Grant

• $3,000 in collaboration with educators and staff at Symonds Elementary School to support school garden improvements, supplies and programming

Advocates for Healthy Youth 2019 Grant

• $1,500 in collaboration with Symonds Elementary School Kindergarten teacher Jessica Arrow to provide wet weather outerwear for students engaging in the Forest Days program

Anne Slade Frey Charitable Trust Spring 2019 Grant

• $500 for materials to support Senior Capstone project “Diversity Literacy Family Book Club”

Whole Kids Foundation 2017 Extended Learning Garden Grant Program

• $2,000 in collaboration with educators at Wild Roots Preschool for school garden revitalization