Our Opportunities
The Ridgefield Public Schools Foundation is proud to sponsor the following programs
Arts & Literacy Grant
The purpose of this program is the help fund projects and initiatives related to the arts and literacy. The Foundation is committed to enhancing and enriching the education experience of all students. We seek to fund projects that engage students in foundational reading, reading for knowledge, writing coherently, and listening and speaking for purpose. We also hope to fund projects that meet the artistic, creative, and musical needs of students. Projects can enhance, but may not replace district adopted curricular resources.
Innovation Grant
The Innovation Grant sponsored by Columbia Credit Union is a program launched by the RPSF in 2018. It was created to honor our first board president and long serving member, Paul Lewis. Grants will be presented to a staff member, high school student, or school program in the Ridgefield School District. The purpose of the Innovation Grant is to fuel innovation in the classroom by incorporating new, creative, original, or out-of-the-box programs in schools and classrooms, which the school district is not able to support.
STEM Grant
The purpose of our STEM Grant Program is to help fund projects and initiatives related to science, technology, engineering and math. The Foundation is committed to enhancing and enriching the education experience of all students. We seek to fund projects that create an interdisciplinary approach to learning, encourage experimentation, foster creativity and teach problem-solving through STEM. Special thank you to the Robinson Family Foundation for making this grant opportunity possible.
General Grants (unsolicited requests)
The RPSF wants to target the areas where the Ridgefield School District, PTA, PTO, the Ridge, and Booster Club funding are not able to meet the needs of our rapidly growing District. The Ridgefield Public Schools Foundation offers several grant opportunities to staff and students throughout the year. If your program or school has a need that does not qualify for or is outside the timeline of our established grants please complete the application for grant funding in order to make your request. Complete and submit the following application to info@ridgefieldpsf.org. The board meets once a month and reviews grant applications at each meeting.
Comments from past mini grant recipients:
“This year the dictionaries have been in use daily in all English classrooms. Every morning we are all doing grammar and vocabulary practice. It would be safe to say that almost every new seventh-grader has already used the new dictionaries.”
“During certain concepts, I take students to the library where they complete an investigation using the [new] software. In fact, I just used the lab with the calculus students today. As the year progresses, I will be utilizing the software as often as possible.”
“Perhaps the best part of this whole experience, was getting to see kids who swore they hated reading change their minds. Also, my HSPE reading scores went up as well!”
“We used our funds to purchase a laser that we used last spring in our Physical Science light unit. We used the laser for light demonstrations including reflection showing incident and reflected angles.”
