Grants & Projects

 

Grant Successes

The Coralwood Foundation funds the salary of a development director which is a non-voting position on our executive board. Through the efforts of our development director, Coralwood’s school and foundation have received a number of helpful grants and awards. The first grant was received in the Fall of 2006. In the first four years, we have received 27 grants totaling $141,211.

Those grants funded the following:

 

Technology - 4 grants totaling $54,262

• Installed a school-wide wireless system

• Purchased Promethean ActivBoards for classrooms (Note: Through the efforts of the Foundation, Coralwood was the first school in DeKalb County to have a Promethean ActivBoard)

• Purchased computers, cameras, printers, toner and other classroom technology needs

 

Arts Programming - 10 grants totaling $38,500

• Provided arts education training for 70 staff members

• Held an after-school dance program for Coralwood parents and students which culminated in the performance of an original dance piece

• Hosted eight weekend family art workshops and field trips

• Hosted a puppetry arts residency

• Developed a dance curriculum for kindergarten

• Purchased a new piano, 20 ukuleles, art supplies and cameras

• Provided funding for visits from the Atlanta Ballet and Capital City Opera as part of Coralwood's
  Cultural Events Program

 

Outdoor Spaces - 9 grants totaling $35,849

• Built an Outdoor Classroom beside the school including benches, storage shed, water feature and tools and equipment for gardening

• Built a quarter-mile ADA-accessible Outdoor Trail as well as a shorter dirt trail beside the school

• Installed exercise equipment and built an Outdoor Classroom along the Outdoor Trail

• Built five raised vegetable beds including one ADA accessible bed

• Designed and planted a Sensory Garden

• Secured training for three School Master Gardeners and designed and built a Butterfly Garden

• Secured free architectural drawings and additional funding for a Nature Platform (our "treehouse")
  built during the 2009-10 school year

 

Health - 2 grants totaling $10,000

• Offered after-school exercise classes for staff and parents

• Provided in-school dance classes for all Coralwood students

• Hosted nutrition education training for staff and Nutrition Nights for parents and students

• Provided funding to build the Outdoor Trail

• Other - 2 grants totaling $2,600

• Provided matching funds for Coralwood Foundation's Mini-Grant for Teachers program (now incorporated into the Foundation’s Higher Opportunities for Teachers program.)

• Expanded Coralwood's Family Reading Night event

 

Since that time, the Foundation through its Development Director has sought and received many additional grant projects. Watch for more updates coming soon.