Staff Grants and Donations - Colonial School District

PW World Language department adds free reading libraries to classrooms

Students in Jason Williams’ Spanish class read books and build skills for learning the language. The libraries were funded by the Colonial School District Education Foundation.

Support the PW Scholarship Fund

The fund has helped 800+ PW graduating seniors with scholarships totaling more than $1 million since it began. Donors of $250+ (by May 1) will be listed in the Commencement program.

librarians and others holding children's science books

Colonial libraries benefit from Subaru Loves Learning

For the fifth year, Colonial has received between 200 and 300 children's books that were candidates for AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books.

Pickleball craze hits Colonial Elementary School

Thanks to a gift from the Colonial School District Education Foundation, the fourth and fifth graders can now team up for the game during recess.

PW Scholarship Fund to be absorbed by Colonial School District Education Foundation

The Fund is handing over the process of awarding scholarships to the CSDEF after awarding $1M to graduates.

Scholarship winner Jullian Williams with the Brenner family and CSDEF Co-President Annette Swartz

CSDEF scholarships and building toward the future

The Foundation oversees the Mark Canale Scholarship, the Mike Brenner Scholarship, the Boys of 92 Scholarship, and the CSDEF Scholarship.

Criterion	Rating Scale
	3	2	1
Describe the educational project you are proposing.	Description completely and effectively describes the proposed project. The purpose is evident and aligns to the Foundation’s mission.	Description partially describes the proposed project, with only some detail included. Aspects and purpose are difficult to understand.	Description is vague. A purpose statement is lacking and/or does not align to the mission.
How will the project enhance and/or enrich the experiences of your students?	Response articulates how students’ experiences will be enriched and/or enhanced with specificity and accuracy.	Some details of how students’ experiences will be enhanced and/or enriched are included.	The project does not indicate at any level it will enhance and/or enrich the experiences of students.
What is the timeline for implementation, evidence of impact (or real change) for students, and anticipated outcomes?	The specifics for when implementation of the project will occur, when an impact upon students’ experiences will be evident, and when the anticipated outcomes for students will become available, are all clearly identified and delineated.	Aspects of the requested timeline for implementation, impact upon students, and outcomes are included while others are missing. Timeline is incomplete.	The majority of the requested timeline information is missing. It is unclear when any of the three major portions, implementation, impact upon students, and outcomes, will become available.
Budget outline	The specifics for the budget outline are all realistic, cost effective and provide a detail of expenditures.	Some aspects of the budget are not realistic, cost effective or provide a detail of expenditures.	Very little to no information is provided on the budget outline.

Scoring Guide	12-11	10-8	7-4
Approval Status (assuming funds are available)	Grant proposal approved.	Grant proposal approval contingent upon additional information being provided by the requestor as stipulated.	Grant proposal does not meet the criteria for approval at this time.

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