photo courtesy of East Durham Children's Initiative
| Arts Access, Raleigh, NC
Durham Arts Inclusion Project is a professional development effort that will provide inclusion training and support to arts education providers |
$10,000 |
| The Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
For the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival’s 2018-19 Teach the Teachers and 2018 Youth Screening programs |
$10,000 |
| Community Health Coalition, Durham, NC
Koalition Kids for Health "My View of A Healthy World" Photovoice Project uses digital photography to improve students' literacy levels and critical thinking through the examination of health issues in their communities |
$10,000 |
| Kidznotes, Durham, NC
The Vivaldi Symphonic Orchestra, Kidznote's middle school orchestral curriculum, engages 5th through 8th graders in 21st century skills in the arts |
$10,000 |
| Music is Life, Raleigh, NC
Music is Life offers a music enrichment pop-up program, carefully aligned and structured with NCDPI Music Standards that encourages music literacy programming incorporated with STEM |
$5,000 |
| Puppet Show, Chapel Hill, NC
Puppet Show promotes and preserves puppetry arts through a series of community outreach programs fostering social emotional learning in young children |
$5,000 |
| United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, Raleigh, NC
The Council will expand its in-service arts integration professional development program to 32 middle school teachers in two eastern Wake County schools to promote arts education standards and integrate them across the curriculum |
$10,000 |
| Voices Together, Durham, NC
Voices Together Little Voices Program uses music-based therapy as an innovative and early intervention program for pre-school students with developmental differences, and offers techniques for their parents to use at home |
$5,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle, Morrisville, NC
The STEMentor Initiative "SMART Saturday Academy" provides engaging, structured STEM classes, camps, and activities throughout the year to school-aged children in Wake, Durham, and Orange Counties |
$10,000 |
| The Center for Inquiry Based Learning, Durham, NC
Engaging Elementary Classrooms with Hands-on STEM: All kindergarten and 5th grade teachers in Durham Public Schools will receive professional development in STEM subjects and kits containing materials for nine weeks of integrated STEM instruction |
$10,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Durham, Durham, NC
Sustainable Living & Me integrates science, history, math, and English in an agricultural and biology-focused summer enrichment program that includes a teaching garden |
$10,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Wake County, Raleigh, NC
Project CHAMPS is a pilot CIS Wake program that will provide specialized, experiential learning, preparing K-8 students for postsecondary opportunities and the 21st century workforce |
$10,000 |
| Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County, Siler City, NC
Orgullo Latinx Pride Youth Group is a year-round program designed to improve academic success for Latinx high school students in Chatham County |
$10,000 |
| Durham’s Partnership for Children, Durham, NC
To support Durham’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading |
$5,000 |
| Teachers2Teachers – International, Chapel Hill, NC
Dancing Numbers! Bringing STEM Lessons Alive Through Global Math Stories is a professional development program for teachers from three Chatham County schools to help them teach culturally relevant, globally connected STEM lessons |
$10,000 |
| The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center, Durham, NC
The Institute for Civic Engagement gives students the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge for effective civic participation and to research and create a capstone project addressing a community issue. |
$10,000 |
| Wake Education Partnership, Raleigh, NC
SummerSTEM is a professional development experience for WCPSS educators, giving teachers project-based learning tools and STEM immersion experiences that bring real-world lessons to their classrooms. |
$10,000 |