Interesting Facts About School Funding

08 May 2013 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Accountability, Budgets, District Office, General, Grants, Other Important Information

Many, many thanks to our community for approving the budget at yesterday’s vote! We deeply appreciate your support. (If you would like to see the election results, please click here.)

Did you know that there are a number of district employees whose positions are not funded by taxpayer dollars but are instead partially or completely funded by grants and other sources, including Medicaid and other incentive dollars?

For example, more than thirty food service employees’ salaries are not funded by Colchester taxpayers. Additionally, a host of educators’ positions—including Title I teachers, a mathematics teacher, an elementary school teacher, an alternative education teacher, the district’s literacy coordinator, and the district’s math coordinator—are also alternatively funded. The district’s wellness coordinator and stipends for school-based wellness leaders are also funded outside the voter budget.

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Additionally, Colchester School District also actively pursues a wide variety grant funding opportunities to bolster programming for our students. Over the last year alone, CSD has investigated, sought, and been awarded grant funding to support numerous initiatives, including those pertaining to science and technology, mathematics, literacy, early education, career exploration and preparedness, nutrition, physical education, music, environmental sustainability, and supplemental instruction. All of this is in a concentrated, focused effort to minimize the impact of education funding upon our community.

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Education funding is complex and multifaceted. The increase in the FY 2014 budget, for example, was not due to additional academic, supplemental, or extracurricular programs. Rather, a number of factors contributed to it, including:

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There are great number of other factors that also impact education funding. Comprehensive information about the school budget can be found here.

We are available to answer any questions; please contact our administrative offices at (802) 264-5999 if you would like more information.

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Salsa!

27 Mar 2013 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester High School, Colchester Middle School, Community, General, Grants, Vision Summit/Vision and Strategic Plan

Question: What roles do dance and music play in culture?

About eighty-five eighth-grade students in Meghan Tiernan Fisher’s Spanish classes at Colchester Middle School recently incorporated dancing lessons and Latin music into their study in order to help answer that question.

As a physically active way to learn more about the roles that dance and music play in culture, the students participated in a Latin dance and music unit. The CMS students are researching and teaching one another basic dance steps to a number of Latin dances, including the merengue, the tango, the cumbia, and the bachata. A highlight of this unit featured Salsa dancing with the help of instructor E. Victoria Moore of SalsaLina Dance Studio. Ms. Moore’s instruction was funded by a grant from CMS’s Partners in Education (PIE) group.

CMS students receive Salsa instruction as part of their study of Spanish culture

CMS students receive Salsa instruction as part of their study of Spanish culture

In addition to the dance lessons, the classes have been listening to music from around the Spanish-speaking world.

Your schools aspire to provide rich, meaningful, engaging learning opportunities for students, and they strive to provide continuity between them. In February, for instance, Colchester High School students in Spanish and ELL classes attended a production of ¡Flamenco Vivo! at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. And the Colchester School District Vision and Strategic Plan 2012–2017 has pathways that include Pathway A: High Standards, Expectations, and Individual Engagement for All Learners; Pathway C: Learning Outside Our Four Walls; and Pathway E: Parent, Community, and School Partnerships Among Lifelong Learners—all of which speak directly to this opportunity to learn about cultures.

For more information, please call CMS at (802) 264-5800, or e-mail Meghan Tiernan Fisher (tiernanfisherm@csdvt.org). You may also view her classroom blog.

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The Hands-On Study and Application of Science—How We Do It and Why It’s Important

04 Mar 2013 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester Middle School, Community, Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, General, Grants, Programs, Science Labs & Instructional Center at CHS, Vision Summit/Vision and Strategic Plan

As we announced in October, Colchester School District’s students surpass the state’s average in NECAP examinations in every grade, including in science. Students’ ability to participate in hands-on, experiential learning is critically important, and your schools work to provide as many hands-on opportunities as possible for students—from partnering with UVM to conduct atmospheric research to working with a state official to design simple water filtration systems … and from seeking grant funding to support the construction of a human-powered generator to teaming up with Colchester Police Department to explore forensics, your schools work to align with the Colchester School District Vision and Strategic Plan 2012–2017′s many pathways, including Pathway A: High Standards, Expectations, and Individual Engagement for All Learners; Pathway B: Technology Infrastructure and Integration; Pathway C: Learning Outside Our Four Walls; and Pathway E: Parent, Community, and School Partnerships Among Lifelong Learners. And we are having an astronomical reach—literally; did you know that one of our graduates is a flight controller for the International Space Station?

Hands-on study and application of science is important because making real-world connections to abstract classroom learning piques student engagement and attention—thus encouraging out-of-the-box thinking and enhancing learning. It also strengthens students’ observational skills and allows them to actively engage in their learning, providing additional sensory activities and expanding their curiosity. (All of this underscores the importance of the proposed renovations for the CHS science labs; if you would like more information about them, please click here.)

Recently, as part of a unit on geology, sixth graders in Colchester Middle School’s Infinity Program conducted hands-on experiments in order to explore the question “How does the earth’s surface change over time?“

Hands-on experiment demonstrating the Plate Tectonic Theory

Hands-on experiment demonstrating the Plate Tectonic Theory

CMS science educator Mariah Keagy led the group in the exploration of the Plate Tectonic Theory, which holds that the movement of the earth’s crust is driven by convection currents beneath the surface.

Representation of convection currents

Representation of convection currents

Reconstructing the evidence for the Plate Tectonic Theory, the students investigated the concept of convection currents in water, examining how warm water rises and how cold water sinks as the result of temperature’s influence on its molecular density.

Armed with the knowledge acquired during their observations, the students then embarked on an inquiry exploration, creating convection currents in a tray and predicting what would happen if waxed paper “continents” were placed in the tray, as well.

Sheets of waxed paper representing continents shifting on the earth's surface in response to convection currents

Sheets of wax paper representing continents shifting on the earth’s surface in response to convection currents

The students observed how the waxed paper “continents” moved on the water’s convection currents in the same way that scientists believe the earth’s continents move on the earth’s mantle, causing volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountains as they shift.

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After the experiment, some of the students wrote reflections demonstrating their learning. Here are some examples:

Have you ever noticed that all the continents fit together? This is because the magma in the mantle slowly moves, which causes the continents to shift. This is also called Continental Drift. Below is a picture of continental drift and how we discovered it. The waxed paper represents continents, and the food coloring shows the hot and cold water making a convection current.—Josh

The hot water has molecules that are less compact, and so it rises. The cold water has molecules that are more compact, so they sink to the bottom. This causes a cycle. Plates of the earth’s crust float on the mantle, and the mantle has convection currents, so the contents move by the currents. In our model, the water was the mantle, the food coloring showed the convection currents, and the heat on the bottom was the heat of the earth’s core. The waxed paper continents moved together and apart on the convection currents in the water like plates do on the mantle of the earth.—Gavin

We’re doing this because we are learning about Continental Drift, which is when plates of the earth’s crust move and break up and then move apart again. When magma in the earth gets heated by the core, it rises up and gets cold on the surface and then goes back down. In our model, the waxed paper represents continents, the water represents magma, the hot plate represents heat from the core, and the food coloring shows the water is moving.—Braylen

If you would like more information about the convection currents experiment, please e-mail Mariah Keagy (keagym@csdvt.org), and if you would like more specific information about CSD’s science curriculum, please contact Director of Curriculum and Instruction Gwen Carmolli at (802) 264-5999 or by e-mail at carmollig@csdvt.org.

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CSD Awarded Nearly $15,000 in Grants to Support Classroom Technology!

11 Feb 2013 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in General, Grants, Malletts Bay School, Other Important Information, Porters Point School, Union Memorial School, Vision Summit/Vision and Strategic Plan

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new-age technology, but if the teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
—Former US Senator Nancy Kassebaum

Colchester School District has received nearly $15,000 in grant funding from Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant program to support additional integration of technology into classrooms at Porters Point School, Union Memorial School, and Malletts Bay School!

The grant funding will support the purchase of classroom Apple TVs and projectors that fully integrate with iPads in order to further facilitate differentiated instruction; science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-related curriculum; and adaptive technologies for students with social and emotional disabilities.

Apple technology has been regaled as an exceptional classroom tool to facilitate differentiated instruction, and CSD has received national acclaim for its work in this area; in 2011, four UMS teachers were featured in a professionally produced, globally marketed professional development series about differentiated instruction called Creating Equity and Excellence for All Learners through Differentiated Instruction.

The iPad possesses many effective applications that have been specifically designed to enhance these age groups’ STEM-related engagement. Such applications include Adventures Undersea Math, Alice & Andy in the Universe of Wonders, BrainPOP, CountBy, Mad Math Lite, Piggy HD Math, Dress Up Princess Math, RedFish 4 Kids, Star Walk, Tens Frame, and Whizzit 123. Augmenting students’ and educators’ access to this highly versatile and adaptive technology will have long-term and far-reaching positive implications by engaging our learners, allowing them to assume more ownership of their learning, and exciting them about their study.

Another significant advantage in using iPad applications is the ability to facilitate learning in students with social and emotional disabilities. Numerous studies have demonstrated that implementing student-centered, technology-rich learning programs into academics is highly beneficial, particularly for students with disabilities. For these students, the writing process—and therefore the written demonstration of acquired science and math knowledge—is often very challenging. By leveraging assistive technology, we can support this student demographic in overcoming these challenges, helping them instead to thrive in areas in which they may otherwise struggle. The integration of such technology into the classroom augments all of these benefits in addition to the benefits of collaboration, increased engagement, minimized downtime, reduced costs and waste of classroom materials, and increased ability of teachers to circulate among their students.

CSD’s ongoing efforts to increasingly integrate technology into its curriculum and instruction is a major priority; our community members explicitly identified it as a significant need in the Vision and Strategic Plan 2012–2017. Furthermore, the Vermont Technology Grade Expectations outline major focus areas in education, and among them are digital citizenship and technology operations and concepts. The grants awarded by Lowe’s Toolbox for Education will further support these endeavors.

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Farm-to-School Community Action Planning Meeting & Celebration Dinner on February 6!

01 Feb 2013 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester Middle School, Community, General, Grants, Wellness

On July 11, we announced Colchester Middle School’s receipt of a $5,000 grant from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and the Vermont Department of Health to support the planning of a farm-to-school initiative. A lot of work has been underway since that happy announcement, and on February 6 from 5:30–7:30 p.m., CMS will host a farm-to-school community action planning meeting and celebration dinner … and you are invited!

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Through this grant, we are working to institute a comprehensive, sustainable, integrated farm-to-school program focusing upon fresh and nutritious foods by integrating farm-to-school concepts into our cafeterias, incorporating more farm-fresh foods into our school community, and further integrating farm-to-school concepts into classroom content areas. As we’ve said before, nutrition is a critical component of optimal child development and academic performance; education about and access to nutritious food choices is an integral part of best positioning young people for healthy and successful lives. (These concepts are also the foundation for the grant-funded “In Shape and In Season” nutrition program currently under way at Porters Point School.)

As is stated here, farm-to-school efforts within Vermont are led by Vermont Food Education Every Day (VT FEED), a collaborative project of the Food Works, Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, and Shelburne Farms. VT FEED was designed with the goal of creating food system change and was organized on three levels (the three Cs):

1. The classroom, with standard-based food, farm, and nutrition-based curriculum that involves in-depth, graduate-level teacher training, including summer workshops and in-class mentoring;

2. The cafeteria, through the integration of local food and nutrition education through food service institutes, in-cafeteria mentoring, and peer support;

3. The community, through reconnecting people to their food sources—the farms and farmers.

For more information, please e-mail Sandra Hawkes (hawkess@csdvt.org) or call CMS at (802) 264-5800.

Remember that Colchester Middle School’s calendar of events can be found on the school’s website, and CMS publishes a weekly Friday Focus with news and updates, as well. Colchester School District also posts a district-wide calendar of events, so be sure to check there often, too!

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CSD Wins More Grants!

28 Dec 2012 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester High School, Colchester Middle School, Community, General, Grants, Malletts Bay School, Other Important Information, Porters Point School

Student delegates representing Porters Point School and Colchester Middle School recently attended an award ceremony at Berlin City Automotive Group in Williston to accept a total of $4,000 in grant funds awarded through Berlin City’s Drive for Education Foundation.

Berlin City awarded each school a $2,000 grant. PPS will use its funds to support incorporating ELMO document cameras and projectors and related equipment into its kindergarten classrooms to further facilitate instruction and inspire our students to actively engage in their academic experience from a very early age.

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CMS will use its awarded funds to incorporate additional computer devices into its classrooms as a means of enhancing instruction.

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CMS student Sarah Mendl with her supporting essay that contributed to the award-winning grant proposal

CMS student Sarah Mendl with her supporting essay that contributed to the award-winning grant proposal

The Vermont Technology Grade Expectations outline major focus areas in education, and among them are digital citizenship and technology operations and concepts. Similarly, Colchester School District has identified the implementation of technology into its curriculum as a high priority and is proactively promoting and supporting that agenda through various initiatives. The grants awarded by Berlin City will further support these endeavors at both PPS and CMS.

This is not the first time Berlin City has supported Colchester schools … or even the second or third. In June 2012, Berlin City funded a human-powered generator project at Colchester High School in an effort to foster greater ecological consciousness and hands-on development of sustainable technology. In December 2011, Berlin City awarded Malletts Bay School with $3,500 to further its literacy initiatives through a guided reading series. In December 2011, Berlin City also awarded Colchester Middle School with $3,500 to help increase its laptop inventory.

Many, many thanks to Berlin City Automotive Group for their generous grants providing additional opportunities to our students! And special thanks to Berlin City Sales Manager Dedrick Casab for his tireless support of our schools.

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CSD Libraries Offer Highly Accessible Resources, Research Skills Development, and More

14 Dec 2012 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester High School, Colchester Middle School, General, Grants, Malletts Bay School, Porters Point School, Primer Series, Programs, Union Memorial School

Colchester School District’s libraries are wonderful resources, and they are a great deal more than simply vast book repositories. Increasingly celebrated as twenty-first-century learning environments, school libraries serve vastly important purposes in education. Along with teaching and empowering students to distinguish relevant, quality information from erroneous materials they might find on the Internet, they also serve as powerful sources of technology implementation and investigative collaboration in students’ daily lives. Interested? Read on.

CSD’s Information Technology department installed and set up Destiny® Library Manager™—a software product from Follett Software Company—earlier this year. The program, which is called CSD Reads, replaced the district’s former library software, and it is used in all of the district’s school libraries.

Why is CSD Reads good for parents and students?

A significant advantage of CSD Reads is its accessibility to the entire community; it is an online catalog which can be accessed using any Internet-ready device—and this facilitates searching the inventories of any of the five schools’ libraries rather than having to contact individual librarians to request information about specific titles. This makes CSD’s libraries’ inventories considerably more accessible to parents and students; it is a great resource for parents to manipulate in order to have at-home discussions with students about book selections. CSD Reads further assists students in locating the books in which they are interested, and it is also further integrated with PowerSchool, which allows for more up-to-date information in patron records.

Why is CSD Reads good for teachers?

Teachers use CSD Reads from their classrooms as they prepare for lessons, quickly and easily ascertaining whether the books in which they are interested are available and planning their lessons accordingly. Teachers can also far more easily reserve books across all schools in the district, which in turn allows for improved use of the district’s library materials.

What are some other library-related resources and skills development opportunities?

CSD Reads is not the only fabulous library software in use in the district. At Colchester High School, librarian Christine Eldred uses an online research software widely used in colleges and universities called LibGuides that allows for the integration of a variety of resources to support assignments and projects, including embedded video, e-books, recommended websites, research databases, documents, images, maps, primary sources, RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, podcasts, current news, online exhibits, and more. The LibGuides software helps the library to further support curriculum and student learning while also connecting the library to the classroom.

In addition to the dynamic software programs is the educational component of their use; at CHS, for example, Ms. Eldred works with teachers to help students develop excellent research and inquiry skills, including basic research and online searching; media bias; using online databases and other specialized research tools; social bookmarking; creating citations; and understanding the differences between paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. She has also created a number of helpful guides to facilitate research; to view them, click here.

Colchester Middle School’s library is a buzz of activity, including a recently organized hands-on experience with civic responsibility.

Malletts Bay School’s library, with the help of librarian Lynn Hebert (read her blog here!) and a generous grant from the Robert T. Stafford Memorial Enrichment Grant, has acquired a number of NOOK and NOOK Color™ e-readers to facilitate special education initiatives. (If you would like to read more about our students’ use of NOOK readers and their associated benefits, please click here.)

Both Porters Point School and Union Memorial School’s libraries host the Red Clover event every year—an event cosponsored by the Vermont Center for the Book/Mother Goose Programs, the Vermont Department of Education, and the State of Vermont Department of Libraries that seeks to encourage young children’s appreciation for writing and illustration. More than twenty thousand K–4 students enjoy the annual list of nominated books. “My first goal is to help students become lifelong readers and find the library as an inviting place,” said PPS librarian Mary Ann Kadish (read her blog here!). “Another goal is to assist teachers in finding materials that can expand and enrich the curriculum to make lessons enjoyable and interesting for students.” Of PPS’s library, Ms. Kadish said proudly, “We have over nine hundred leveled, multiple-copy books housed in the library which are found in the catalog. These books are used by teachers for reading instruction.”

Second graders in Mrs. Bissonnette's and Mrs. Benjamin's classes learn to conduct and refine biography searches.

Second graders in Mrs. Bissonnette’s and Mrs. Benjamin’s classes learn to conduct and refine biography searches.

Union Memorial School’s librarian Judy Flanagan (read her blog here!) stepped up to help school libraries devastated by Hurricane Irene in 2011, coordinating the collection and donation of new or nearly new books to benefit Moretown Elementary School in a wonderful show of empathy and solidarity. (If you would like to read more about it, please click here.)

Annual book fairs held in our schools’ libraries are open to the public every year, as well; family members and friends can create and send wish lists to other shoppers through the online fairs, allowing shoppers to browse the selection from the comfort of home while supporting students’ reading and programs and materials for the libraries at the same time.

Our librarians work to create comfortable, inviting, and inspiring environments to help facilitate a love of learning and literacy, and they also host guest authors to meet with our students—author Margaret Peterson Haddix, author Mary Downing Hahn, and author Jason Chin are just some examples (author Robert Hunton has also visited with and even guest taught CSD students).

And did you know that CSD has access to the University of Vermont’s more than 1.39 million text and serial files—as well as a host of other materials—at no cost? (If you missed our September 20, 2011, feature about that incredible resource, you may read it here.)

If you would like more information about CSD Reads or about any of our schools’ libraries (Colchester High School’s Ruth B. Winton Memorial Library with Christine Eldred, Colchester Middle School’s library with Angelika Mahoney, Malletts Bay School’s library with Lynn Hebert, Porters Point School’s library with Mary Ann Kadish, and/or Union Memorial School’s library with Judy Flanagan), please contact any of our schools.

And if you’d like to read our five-part primer on literacy, please click here!

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How Does Flatware Relate to Sustainability Efforts?

15 Nov 2012 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester High School, Colchester Middle School, Community, General, Grants, Malletts Bay School, Porters Point School, Programs, Union Memorial School

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
—Jim Clyburn

In collaboration with CSD’s food service program—and as part of an overarching, coordinated effort to improve recycling and waste management efforts across the district—students at Porters Point School are now using flatware at mealtimes instead of disposable plastic utensils.

And now, as part of Colchester Middle School’s ongoing sustainability initiatives, CMS’s Partners in Education (PIE) group is collecting used and unused flatware/silverware—specifically, spoons, forks, and service knives (not steak knives)—for use in the cafeterias at CMS and Malletts Bay School. Flatware can be dropped off with the main office at CMS, or a member of the PIE group will pick up donations upon request; please contact Cheryl Aley at (802) 893-3640 to coordinate a pick up.

As we have discussed before, the district has numerous ongoing efforts in environmental responsibility and sustainability. For example:

    • We began transitioning to eco-friendly cleaning products in our buildings before it was mandated by Vermont law on July 1, 2012.
    • CSD replaced its old Ford Taurus driver’s education vehicle with a new Toyota Prius—a hybrid vehicle that typically exceeds fifty miles per gallon—with funds received from an ARRA grant.
    • The district utilized funds received through another grant to install more than eighty LED lamps throughout the parking lots at CHS, CMS, and MBS, resulting in an annual savings of fifty thousand (50,000) kilowatt hours and additional incentive dollars.
    • The district also installed upgraded lighting at both PPS and UMS. In fact, CSD worked closely with Efficiency Vermont and various vendors to replace lighting in all schools with high-efficiency lighting, and the anticipated savings to the district were such that Efficiency Vermont covered the entire cost with incentives.
    • Three high-efficiency boilers resulting in annual cost savings replaced the aging boilers at CMS.
    • CSD works closely with Chittenden Solid Waste District in order to increase recycling efforts.
    • CHS won a grant to support a human-powered generator capable of storing electricity to help offset some of the stage lighting, sound, and projection equipment’s power requirements.

CHS staff and students and Berlin City’s Dedrick Casab

And there are many more examples; CSD has won sustainability-focused grants, we have community gardens, and much more.

Environmentalism is really important, and Vermonters are proudly leading the charge; our state has often been called the healthiest in the country, and Burlington has been considered the healthiest city in the nation (and really, that means us here in Colchester, too). Even more amazing is that Vermont has also been considered the most ecologically friendly state in the country. All of this is because our friends and neighbors make environmental sustainability a priority—and CSD does, too.

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Community Harvest Challenge Kicks Off

01 Nov 2012 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester High School, Colchester Middle School, Community, General, Grants, Malletts Bay School, Porters Point School, Union Memorial School

Every school in our district makes significant community efforts and places considerable emphasis upon local, nutritious foods. Porters Point School is currently running a fantastic, local produce-based program called “In Shape and In Season” aimed at reducing childhood malnutrition and childhood obesity; Union Memorial School partnered with Tuberville to plant and harvest potatoes for donation to the Colchester Community Food Shelf (CCFS) and has also hosted food drives; Malletts Bay School donates produce from their gardens to CCFS, and Colchester High School—in addition to also hosting a community garden—also actively supports community food drives (including the one announced yesterday).

And now Colchester Middle School’s Family and Consumer Science classes, in partnership with the VT FEEDS farm-to-school initiative, are spearheading a harvest challenge from November 1 through November 16, 2012!

CMS is collecting nonperishable food items for donation to CCFS to support our community members in need; contributions can be placed in the box in the lobby near CMS’s front office. As part of this initiative, 1984 Colchester High School graduate Art Hawkes will visit CMS as a representative of Sam Mazza’s farm; on November 16, he will arrive at CMS with a bucket loader. Can we fill the loader with the collected food items?

Family and Consumer Science students and other volunteers will package all of the food items for delivery to CCFS early in the week of November 19.

For questions, or to help with the CMS harvest challenge, please e-mail Sandra Hawkes (hawkess@csdvt.org) or call (802) 264-5800!

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CMS Awarded Grants to Facilitate Literacy Initiatives!

12 Sep 2012 Comments Off

by CSD Spotlight in Colchester Middle School, General, Grants

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
—Sir Richard Steele

Colchester Middle School has been awarded two grants—a $2,000 Dollar General Literacy Foundation’s Youth Literacy grant and a $500 WalMart Local Giving grant!

The grants, which will augment CMS’s existing curriculum materials for science, language arts, and social studies by funding the purchase of varied leveled books, will support the school’s initiative of inclusion for all students and particularly students with disabilities. In addition to visuals, the leveled readers will offer concept development, precise vocabulary, glossaries, and indexes. And while they are developed to facilitate the emerging reader, they are based upon CMS’s general education curriculum topics, including Ancient China, English explorers, and others. The reading materials are designed to support vocabulary and comprehension at a variety of language levels and to help students make real-world connections with the material.

The grants will also support the purchase of additional texts spanning an array of genres for use with general education classrooms as well as for students with limited English skills or limited reading ability. These resources will support the teachers’ work of actively collaborating to develop appropriately modified and accessible curriculum for all levels of student readiness.

To view the formal press release about the Dollar General Literacy Foundation grant, please click here.

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