Do you have an idea for an innovative program for Greenwich High School or Middle School students? This, our sixth Grants cycle, begins with the application process during winter-spring 2012 for grant programs that will run during the 2012-2013 school year. This year the Alliance will award grants for programs that benefit students at either Greenwich High School or GPS middle schools.
2012 Reaching Out Grants Committee:
Stuart Adelberg - Co-chair, Director Greenwich United Way
Nancy Weissler - Co-chair, Past Greenwich Board of Education Chair
Lori Jackson - United Way Board, Chair Commission on Aging
Joanne Zammit - Former GPS Teacher and Alliance Founder
Joan Lowe - Former GPS guidance counselor/social worker, Chair of Reading Champions
Sandra Mond - Former GPS Principal
Suzanne Merkel - Former Coordinator GPS Preschool
MaryAnn Murray - Social Worker GPS
Whitney Rosenberg - Associate Director of Development, Bruce Museum
In November the Alliance kicked off its Bridging the Digital Divide program with a computer training session for students and their parents. The pilot program provides five carefully selected “digitally excluded” Greenwich High School students and their families with 12 months of access to on-line learning resources and tools (hardware, DSL connectivity and training). Parents and students photographed here are beginning their digital education by connecting them to the Greenwich Public School's website!
Recently one of the GHS students selected to participate in this pilot program presented her thoughts on how having her own computer with internet access has "leveled the playing field" and has positively impacted her education at Greenwich High School.
The reading experience will include multiple opportunities for the community to engage. Discussions, programs and lectures based on Zeitoun are schedule to take place over the two week period from April 15 to April 29. Stay updated on the schedule of events by visiting the Greenwich Reads Together website, www.greenwichlibrary.org/GreenwichReadsTogether.aspx.
Greenwich Reads Together is a community-wide reading experience that engages all of Greenwich in exploring a single book. The Steering Committee leading this effort includes Greenwich Library, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich Historical Society, Greenwich Alliance for Education, Greenwich Pen Women, Greenwich Public Schools and Private schools, and Friends of Greenwich Library.
Our Tuning In to Music Program!
The fifth year of the Alliance's Tuning In to Music (TITM) program has concluded with two concerts - one for band students and one for orchestra students - held recently at the Greenwich Arts Council. Once again, the student musicians ranging in age from grades 4 to 8, delighted and impressed their parents, friends and supporters, showing significant improvement from previous years. Alliance Executive Director Julie Faryniarz, an early coordinator of the TITM program, commented, "I'm truly impressed with the poise and confidence of each of our musicians. I've had the pleasure of watching many of these musicians grow each year, and this year their music was more complex than in the past, and they really looked like they were having fun too!
Students in the Greenwich Alliance-sponsored AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) program at Greenwich High School recently wrote essays describing how they feel about being in this select group. Read on to hear in their own words how AVID helps them academically and in other ways.
The Greenwich High School Student Loan Fund offers financial assistance to Greenwich High School graduates for full-time college undergraduate education by providing interest-free loans of up to $4,500 a year for four years! For a copy of the application, including full details on financial and GPA requirements, click here. There is no application deadline. Interested parties can call Barbara Norrgard at 203 637-3703 or e-mail
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