History

The Pelham Education Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1995 as a not-for-profit and tax-exempt charitable foundation to receive tax-deductible contributions from individual donors, corporate gifts and grants from public and private foundations.  Since inception we have made grants in excess of $700,000 as detailed in PEF Projects.

How We Work

We identify several major projects each year from which one or two Major Project Grants are awarded, often with input from the administration and teaching staff most directly involved with the particular proposal.  Each Major Project must be approved by the Board of Education.

Teachers and administrative staff may apply for a Mini-Grant from the Foundation.  Grants are awarded once in the fall and again during the spring.  Mini-Grants serve to support the training, development and creativity of our teaching staff by funding programs that can be implemented at a cost of under $5,000 per program.  Initiatives may be district-wide or school, grade or subject-matter specific.  Once underway these programs become integrated into the ongoing curriculum and are supported by the school budget.

A Micro-Grant program is also available to all teachers.  This program awards grants of under $500 to support teacher initiatives that are developed throughout the school year and require a minimal amount of money to be implemented.  The Foundation Board accepts Micro-Grant requests from teachers at any time and reviews such applications on a case-by-case basis.

The Foundation, through the work of its fund raising subcommittee, conducts a number of activities throughout the year to generate contributions from the Pelham community.  An annual appeal letter is mailed to the community prior to the calendar year-end and a major fund-raising event is conducted each spring.  Contributions are also solicited through on-going efforts such as the engraved bricks program in the PMHS/PMS courtyard and through advertising and public relations.  Contributions may be made directly on this site at  Donate Online Now.

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