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FPHE Awards 2010 Grants to Pleasant Hill Schools
On May 20, 2010 the Foundation for Pleasant Hill Education (FPHE) awarded more than $31,000 to support educational activities in Pleasant Hill public schools. The grants represent a significant endowment of funds to enhance educational opportunities for Pleasant Hill students while schools simultaneously combat ongoing education spending cuts. The total of this year’s grant awards is more than double what FPHE awarded in 2009. In FPHE’s two-year history it has awarded over $45,000 to Pleasant Hill schools.
FPHE’s goal for the 2010 “Help Schools Thrive – Give $55” Annual Campaign was $55,000. Donations from 291 donors and the proceeds from the Dine Out for Education events totaled over $26,000. With the $5,500 proceeds from the May 11th Oak Park Restaurant Walk, FPHE was able to award over $31,000 in grants.
It is not too late to give. FPHE accepts donation all year. It is time to show we’re a community that values quality education.
The 2010 FPHE grants were awarded based on a combination of criteria, including the number of students impacted and the contribution to or support of language arts, math, science, or other key curriculum areas.
The Foundation received 56 grant requests and awarded, in part or in whole, 38 grants. Every school that requested a grant received one. Some schools submitted more requests than others. Below are the grants awarded and the 10 schools that received them:
College Park High School
- Sets of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Cyrano de Bergerac, and To Kill a Mockingbird ($1000)
- Two LCD projectors for Math Department ($1000)
- Literature workbooks and subscriptions to New York Times Upfront Magazine ($970)
- Sets of Frankenstein, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Importance of Being Ernst ($927)
- Cardio boxing station ($700)
Pleasant Hill Middle School
- Hardware and software updates for Computer Lab ($1000)
Sequoia Middle School
- Alternative energy science program and materials ($1000)
- Hands-on measurement and geometry materials ($979)
- Biographies for Library ($900)
- Interactive and vertical planning whiteboard for Math Department ($850)
- Art in History program for Chinese, Greek, Egyptian, and Indian cultures ($800)
- Class sets of Al Capone Shines My Shoes ($460)
Valley View Middle School
- Computer station for Resource room ($643)
- Sets of spelling books ($1000)
Gregory Gardens Elementary
- Promethean Board ($1000)
- Learning-to-read reading books ($923)
Hidden Valley Elementary
- Combined grants to cover 4 document cameras and 2 LCD projectors ($3536)
- 100 Thesaurus books ($909)
Pleasant Hill Elementary
- Board Math program ($1000)
- Board Language program ($1000)
- LCD projector and document camera ($1000)
Sequoia Elementary
- Sets of Nature’s Children animal book series ($741)
- SRA reading program ($832)
- World Book Encyclopedia ($600)
- Combined grants for California research materials ($1361)
- Read Naturally program ($1000)
- Sets of Bob Books ($1000)
Strandwood Elementary
- Hands-on science materials ($941)
- Sets of By the Great Horn Spoon ($478)
- Board Math whiteboard ($420)
- Supplies for Kindergarten garden project ($300)
- Sibelius computer software for Music Department ($260)
Valhalla Elementary
- Video project materials ($808)
- Schoolyard Wildlife Connection interactive program ($1000)
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