Foundation for Roanoke Valley Announces Grants from its Grants 4 Teachers Program

Foundation for Roanoke Valley announces it has awarded more than $4,100 in grants from the Community Catalyst Funds to teachers of Roanoke City and Roanoke County Public Schools.

Now in its second year, the Foundation aims to support creative, low-cost but effective projects that will stimulate learning. The program expanded this year to include Roanoke City and Roanoke County Public Schools and is open to K-12 teachers. The following grants were awarded for 2011:

Sandy Brown, Mountain View Elementary: $250 to purchase supplies for an Ecosystem Espionage project
Karin Carneal, Mount Pleasant Elementary: $250 to purchase books for The Literacy Independence Project
Melissa Cupp, Fort Lewis Elementary: $250 to purchase a Level A Math Family Fund Pack set
Chip Donahue, Glen Cove Elementary: $250 to create an outdoor living laboratory
Sherry Falls, Burlington Elementary: $220.10 to support the “To Market To Market” project
Amy Fiddler, Garden City Elementary: $250 to support the Mealtime Manners project
Ashleigh Fisher, Westside Elementary: $250 to purchase books for a Boy’s Book Club
Michael French, Burton Center for Arts and Technology: $250 to purchase supplies to allow its CIT students to complete a re-wiring project
Ellen Harmon, Stonewall Jackson Middle: $244.97 to purchase a class set of The Hunger Games, an audiobook of The Hunger Games, and Book are Brain Food bookmarks
Dana Hoos, Mount Pleasant Elementary: $250 to purchase camp chairs for the Camp Out and Read! project
Jason Murray, Mason’s Cove Elementary: $250 to purchase yoga mats to use in the physical education program
Sherry Siska, Glenvar High: $250 to purchase copies of “Witness” and a subscription to the educational version of Glogster
Paula Stocks, Mount Pleasant Elementary: $250 to purchase supplies, activities, and games for critical readers and thinkers
Allyson Strassburg, William Byrd High: $250 to purchase xylene transfer pens for the Personal Reflection project
Carol Webster, Burton Center for Arts and Technology: $250 to support “The Highs and The Lows” vocal project
Marilee Weikel, Hidden Valley Middle: $201 to purchase materials needed for the Dirt Babies! Variable Classroom Investigations project
Lisa Wever, Fallon Park Elementary: $250 to support the Hands on Reading project

Foundation for Roanoke Valley, the region’s community foundation, currently administers over 260 named endowment funds on behalf of the community. Unrestricted endowments are particularly powerful as they provide the Foundation with the flexibility over time to seek out and fund highly-effective programs across a wide-range of community needs. Individuals interested in establishing their own personal or family legacy through an unrestricted endowment or any of the many other types of endowment funds offered by the community foundation should visit www.foundationforroanokevalley.org or call (540) 985-0204.