This grant supports the purchase of mini iPads for use in English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms. The iPads will be used to facilitate learning the English language through phonemic awareness, letter sounds, vocabulary, fluency, intonation, common interest, comprehension, and linguistics.

This grant will allow the children at Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School to participate in a 10-week bilingual soccer program to provide a safe and rich environment for children in 1st- and 2nd-grade.

This Community Grant will support the purchase of art supplies for a fifth-grade arts program.

The grant will help fund the organization’s Family Science program to ensure the program is free of charge for all participants.

The grant will help purchase culturally authentic West African and Latin American musical instruments for 75 – 100 students enrolled in the school’s Introduction to Music course.

The grant will help purchase culturally authentic West African and Latin American musical instruments for 75 – 100 students enrolled in the school’s Introduction to Music course.

Grant funds will support the purchase of computer tablets for use at Higgison-Lewis K-8 School.

The grant will support the purchase of e-readers for the school’s newly renovated library.

The grant will to support the school’s efforts to reduce drop-out rates among 8th grade students. Grant dollars will help fund a variety of incentives, from movie tickets to college visits, which reward strong performance and motivate students to improve their attendance, behavior and grades.

The grant will support a kindergarten literacy program. Grant dollars will purchase two laptop computers that will provide access to online storybooks for the children to read.

The grant will support the purchase of a variety of sensory materials for students with autism. These materials will be used in highly specialized classrooms in the school’s autism strand to help comfort and guide students with autism into an appropriate learning posture.

The grant will support the purchase of new books for the lunchtime reading program. Read To A Child will recognize the Foundation’s support with a bookplate in the front of each new book.

The grant will support the purchase of laptops and a video camera for the school's Mock Trial Team.

To be used for all costs incurred in connection with painting a mural for PS 36, a K-2 inner-city school.

To support the transportation of limited income middle school and high school students to college preparatory classes at Bird Street Community Center.

To support the English as a Second Language curriculum that is part of the Oak Street Youth Center program offered at the Chinatown Neighborhood Center.

To support the English as a Second Language curriculum that is part of the Oak Street Youth Center program offered at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center.

For special events or functions in the community for mentors and mentees to attend together.

For use in support of school educational trip scholarship aid to needy families who have more than one child attending the school who will participate in the trip.

For the purchase of a sand/water table.

For educational materials for a classroom of Jumpstart to Kindergarten, a school readiness program that prepares children to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

To support the Project Praise anti-bullying program.

To support the "Read It and Sleep" program which provides once a month Friday night "community pajama parties" for low-income neighborhood children and families.

For the purchase of a Young Explorer's computer system.

To make a one-time purchase of art supplies which will enable The Children's Room to increase and improve the educational services it provides to children in Boston, in particular.

To support production of an "All School Show".

To support the purchase of materials to rebuild a learning garden for the after-school program serving 150+ students, grades 3-8, from spring planting through fall harvest.

To support the purchase of new fifth grade books on science, health and fitness.

To contribute to the purchase of child assessment, development and training program support.

To fund a summer reading program.

To purchase graphing calculators for us in math classes by students in the newly created ninth grade.

To purchase science kits for 7th-8th grade students in conjunction with the "Science for the Future" curriculum.

To support 40-50 high school student's participation in a green science research program, including attending the training, purchasing the materials and paying transportation costs for college mentors to visit the high school.

For therapeutic horseback riding lessons for special needs students in the Hartford Public Schools and to purchase a digital camera to photograph riders entering the program.

To support the purchase of a year-long, school-wide subscription access to Discovery Education, which provides streaming video programs on Science and Education.

For the purchase of books for Hartford school children.

For the purchase of English as a Second Language learning materials.

To support the work of after-school weekend mentors through the purchase of educational materials for student use including globes, academic games and art supplies.

To support the expansion of the school library through the purchase of popular books.

To support the purchase of four infant simulators to be used in the after school middle school program.

To support a purchase of microphones for an after-school program in six high schools which brings urban and suburban students together for a month-long theatre production program.

To pay three actor/educators for three one-hour workshops on conflict resolution.

To enable the HartBeat Ensemble to provide four scholarships to low-income Hartford students for their attendance at the February 2006 theatre education workshop.

For the cost of The JASON Project for use in the new Pathway to Technology Program at the Hartford Magnet High School.

To enable the Society to provide outreach services to enable Hartford Public School students to attend, free of charge, a two-hour music education program.

To purchase homework supplies (pens, pencils, paper, scissors, calculators, folders etc.) to meet the needs of students completing assignments at 5 library sites.

For the cost of the replacement of learning materials destroyed by vandalism.

To support student's refurbishing computers which will be donated for use by community groups or senior citizens.

To support the use of a color laser printer for educational use in the classroom.

To be used to support the creation by junior high students for a film about immigration in Washington Heights.

To purchase an interactive Smartboard for use in the special education classroom.

To support an educational trip by students studying immigration to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in New York City.

To support the purchase of an Elmo document camera and cart for use in the sixth grade classroom.

To purchase and implement Handwriting without Tears curriculum in three preschool classes.

For the costs of producing ceramic tiles painted by the students and to be installed at the entrance to the school.

To purchase science ESL books for two classes.

To support two educational field trips for first grade students.

To purchase learning age appropriate reading books for third and fourth grade special education students.

To support the purchase of high interest reading materials for third and fourth grade special education students.

To pay stipends for guest speakers on topics such as "Being a Nurturing Father", "How to talk to your child about difficult things, e.g. community violence, loss and divorce, money management", and to pay for childcare during these sessions.

To support the translation of an educational booklet, "Talking With Your Daughters About Sex and HIV Prevention" into Spanish for use.

For costs associated with the hosting and programming of The Massachusetts Future Problem Solving Program Web Application.

For the purchase of cassette players and copies of the Children's Literature Listening Library.

To support the purchase of supplementary library materials regarding Central Park in conjunction with a two-year focus on 2nd and 3rd grade classes on studying and visiting the park.

To enable Mozart Elementary School to purchase science videos and to supplement the science program and for funding the associated home reading program.

To enable the Muscular Dystrophy Association to send three children to the MDA Summer Camp and to purchase life preservers for the waterfront.

For the costs associated with the building of a portable stage in support of the theatre arts program of the School.

For the cost of production of poetry books.

To support the creation of an intergenerational community art garden.

To support the purchase of essential camera equipment needed for the day care program National Association for the Education of Young Children certification.

For the development of a Micro Society Program at the school.

To support educational field trip to the historic Old North Church.

To support the renovation of an after-school classroom used by children in subsidized housing.

To support the purchase of multi- sensory learning materials (Preventing Academic Failure) for K-2 South Bronx students.

To support an educational trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the White House and other historic sites.

To support the purchase of three IPADs and software for the classroom to help special education students.

To purchase laptop computers and a printer to use in the third grade social studies classroom.

To support a reading intervention program for special needs students.

To support the adult learning program by providing funds to purchase toys to entertain by children in child care at the Perkins Community Center during the the time the child's parent or guardian is in class.

To support the program Home Instruction to Parents of Pre-School Youngsters ("HIPPY").

To purchase reading and writing improvement materials for students in an effort to improve reading abilities and raise MCAS scores.

To support the purchase of supplementary technology equipment to enhance educational use of the school's Smart Board.

To support the costs of a training on advocacy for youth in state care that are members of OSSUM.

To support the purchase of books to expand the Drop Everything and Read, Read Aloud Program.

For the purchase of books to complete its Literacy Center Collection.

For supplies for collaborations through the summer; for a field trip to the Museum of African American History and for supplies for an education forum.

To support the hiring of an additional Program Assistant for the 2007 Youth Environmental Education Programs.

To be used to enable SAIL to build a resource library for students by purchasing content area books (science and social studies) from Harcourt publishers.

To enable the school to purchase necessary sensory integration equipment for children with special needs (mentally and physically).

To purchase two computers, a library of non-fiction books and two Livescribe pens for a differentiated reading learning program at the school.

To support the purchase of a microphone and four computers as part of a differentiated English curriculum for 11th and 12th grade students.

To purchase two computers, a library of non-fiction books and two Livescribe pens for a differentiated reading learning program.

For support of sustaining a girl's start-up basketball team.

To enable Trinity Repertory Company to allow students enrolled in the Hope Arts English class to attend the production of Our Town at Trinity Repertory and participate in pre-and-post performance workshops led by members of Trinity Repertory's resident acting company.

To support the painting of old classrooms in the middle school area.

For the cost of training sessions by outside experts in the docent training program.

For the cost of training sessions for docents in program on African Art.

To enable the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to fund the 2006 Free Bus and Admission Program.

To enable the Watkinson School to fund SPHERE (Supplementary Program for Hartford Educational and Reinforcement Enrichment), a day-long five week summer program for Hartford elementary students that operates at the Watkinson School.