Staff Grants and Donations - Colonial School District

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.

Members of the CSDEF board receives check from John Kennedy Subaru management

CSDEF connects companies to Colonial schools

From simply matching an employee donation to funding major initiatives, area businesses help students and staff in Colonial.

Kala Jojo with African drum talking to students at Colonial Middle School

Giving back to the District in 2021-2022

The CSDEF funded projects for school libraries, the AVID program, innovative teacher grants, and more.

Boy and girl hold paper hearts text reads it takes a big heart to shape young minds

The 2022 “Feel the Love” campaign resulted in 1000+ certificates to staff

The program raised $10,741 and distributed 1,087 certificates that recognize that "it takes a big heart to shape young minds."

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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