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    • 5.1.1: 2009-2010 Grant Recipients
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Community Collaboration Grants

Each year, IPEI awards Community Collaboration Grants to community groups to support programs that further IPEI’s mission of connecting school and community. These grants usually involve multiple classrooms or even multiple schools, are not eligible for IPEI’s Teacher Grants program, and require a level of funding over and above that which a Red & Gold Opportunities Grant can provide.

Applications may be submitted at any time during the school year, and past grants have been awarded in amounts up to $3,000.

Examples of recent grants include:

• Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Snack Pilot at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, in collaboration with the New York Coalition for Healthy Foods, introducing the students to fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Transportation Liaisons in all ICSD schools, in collaboration with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Way2Go program and the ICSD Transportation Working Group. They provide information to students and families about ride sharing, bicycle routes, and other transportation options to meet the needs of students and parents who encounter transportation obstacles.
• Meet the Alphabet, a collaborative effort among ICSD staff, students, musicians, dancers, artists, and cinematographers, Family Reading Partnership, and The Village at Ithaca, lead by Carol Cedarholm, to develop a DVD to teach names, sounds, symbols, and a key word for each letter of the alphabet to over 900 Pre-K through First Grade students. The DVD will be distributed free of charge to households of Pre-K children, to day-care centers and providers, and to classrooms in the ICSD in an effort to increase reading success across all groups in our diverse district.
• Media Construction of Martin Luther King, a project in collaboration with Ithaca College’s media literacy program Project Look Sharp involving all 800 8th and 11th grade students in ICSD in English Language Arts and Social Studies classrooms, to integrate media literacy and critical thinking into English Language Arts and social studies curricula. Students learn about Martin Luther King through original video material and a study of historical events. Songs, film clips, newspapers, magazines, and other media are viewed to see how the same message can be interpreted differently by different people.

A community group wishing to apply for a Community Collaboration Grant should send a letter to:

IPEI, Attn. Fran Kozen
P.O. Box 4268
Ithaca, NY 14852-4268
Email: fkozen@twcny.rr.com

The letter should describe the program, the schools and grade levels it will target, the number of children who will benefit, the learning goals addressed by the program, the program budget, and the time frame over which the program will unfold.