We are in our fourth cycle of Reaching Out Grants! Including our latest grants, for the 2010-2011 school year, the Alliance will have awarded over $320,000 for 24 grants that have benefitted Greenwich Public School students from pre-K to high school. See below for a list of our grants.
Mobilizing community resources is a key part of the Alliance’s mission. That is why we are proud to award grants to community organizations that want to run sustainable, inventive programs that address the needs of our children. This past school year the Alliance distributed over $60,000 to seven recipient organizations, enabling them to provide quality enrichment, mentoring, or afterschool programs to Greenwich Public School students.
As part of its new vision, for the next two years the Alliance has committed to awarding grants for innovative programs for Greenwich High School students.
The Grants cycle is currently closed. The latest Reaching Out Grant recipients, for the 2010-2011 school year, are below. Applications for the 2011-2012 school year will be available in November 2010. In the meantime, if you would like to see a copy of the most recent application, click here. For more information contact the Alliance’s Executive Director, Julie Faryniarz, at
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2010 – 2011
The following Reaching Out Grants are all either at Greenwich High School (GHS), or for the benefit of GHS students.
AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination). The Alliance is proud to be funding this program of curriculum support and mentoring for the third year. AVID is designed to improve academic achievement for a select group of students in the academic “middle” and increase the number of students from this group that attend a four-year college upon graduation. This year, the district will be supporting AVID as well, which fulfills the Alliance’s ideal of how we can fund a promising pilot program, support it as it gains recognition, and then watch it find other sources of support.
CSP School to Career Program. This program targets students in the Comprehensive Support Program (CSP), the alternative educational program offered onsite at GHS for students with needs different from the regular school program. The grant will enable CSP students to attend essential career and vocational exploration sessions at the Porter and Chester Exploratory Program for High School Students in Bridgeport.
SoundWaters Marine Science Project. SoundWaters is a four-time Reaching Out Grant recipient, this time for a program that partners it with the GHS Marine Science program. In collaboration with the Shellfish Commission and the Conservation Commission, they will provide a unique opportunity for students to participate in an inquiry-based study of the Greenwich shellfish beds through the harvesting of oysters in the laboratory. Because of the diversity of students in the Marine Science classes, this grant will likely see participation by both honors and non-honors students.
ARCH School Integrated Classrooms for Alternative Education. One of the two offsite GHS alternative schools, ARCH was in the headlines last year when one of its teachers, Tony Mullins, won the National Teacher of the Year. This year at ARCH, the Alliance will fund the training of a teacher in the integrated, student-centered approach to learning designed by eMINTS. eMINTS is a national learning center based in Missouri.
Community Learning Program (CLP) Connections. CLP isone of two offsite GHS alternative schools (the other is ARCH, see preceding grant). This grant will allow CLP students, who may not have frequent opportunities for cultural activities, to have culturally-enriching field trips that are selected to coincide with specific units in the curriculum.
Bridging the Digital Divide. This grant will provide the equipment and connectivity necessary for Internet access to a selected group of GHS students whose families who do not have this at home. The goal is that this be a pilot during the 2010-2011 school year, with hopes to expand the program in subsequent years to significantly reduce the number of "disconnected" students
2009-2010
Greenwich High School (renewed grant). Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a nationally-recognized program that helps incoming high-school students in the academic middle succeed and prepare for college.
Boys and Girls Club, Inc. We Love to Read Summer/After School Program. Small-group reading projects and one-on-one time with Reading Specialist and Reading Mentors to help elementary-age Club members fulfill their summer and school-year reading goals.
Audubon Greenwich. Saturday Academic Enrichment Academy at Hamilton Avenue. Eight Saturday half-day enrichment classes for students who need intensive assistance in Math, English, and Science. Teaching is in both traditional classroom setting and through hands-on activities at Audubon Greenwich.
SoundWaters. After School Science for All (at New Lebanon and Cos Cob Schools). Six-week afterschool program that teaches children the skills to become literate in the sciences, reading, and exploration through hands-on environmental science field trips and experiments.
Greenwich High School (renewed grant): Skills For Success, a summer school and mentoring program which helps entering freshmen succeed in their transition to high school.
United Way of Greenwich – Youth Services Council. Reading Champions. Professional training for volunteer tutors who help students who are below grade expectations in reading improve and perfect their reading skills and increase their self-confidence. Tutors serve at New Lebanon, Hamilton Avenue, North Street, North Mianus, and Glenville Schools and at BANC (Byram Archibald Neighborhood Center).
Family Centers. Head Start Music Programs. A series of eight music enrichment classes that will include singing, fingerplays, and introduction to numerous musical instruments that Head Start preschool students will be invited to touch or strum.
2008-2009
Greenwich High School: Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a nationally-recognized program that helps incoming high-school students in the academic middle succeed and prepare for college.
Greenwich High School (renewed grant): Skills For Success, a summer school and mentoring program which helps entering freshmen succeed in their transition to high school.
SoundWaters (renewed grant): Coastal Science Investigation, a hands-on, marine biology afterschool program engaging a mix of middle school students.
Western Middle School and New Lebanon School: Raising Awareness In Science and Math Education (RAISE), a program of field trips, speakers, and peer-mentoring to raise awareness of and interest in math and science careers in 4th and 5th grade girls from Hispanic families.
The Renaissance School at Hamilton Avenue: Arts and Motion, an afterschool program of enrichment in academics and sports.
Riverside School: Universal Design For Living, a program that helps 5th-graders identify their own learning style.
Boys and Girls Club: a media specialist to help participating children get the most out of their new library and media equipment.
2007-2008
Greenwich High School: Skills for Success, a summer school and mentoring program which helps entering freshmen succeed in their transition to high school.
Eastern and Western Middle Schools: Adventure Racing, a program providing academic and physical challenges for diverse teams of students entering middle school.
SoundWaters: Coastal Science Investigation, a hands-on, marine biology afterschool program engaging a mix of middle school students.
Greenwich Arts Council: Minds in Motion, an enrichment program linking math and dance for elementary school students.
