Fall 2015 Grants

Atlanta Speech School

Atlanta, GA

Program support for a partnership between The Rollins Center for Language and Literacy, Atlanta Public Schools, and the Westside Atlanta Charter School to provide training around reading instruction to 120 teachers and a summer program for 200 rising K-3 students in the Douglass Cluster. $80,000
(over 2 years)

Augustine Literacy Project

Charlotte, NC

General operating support for a literacy intervention program delivered by highly trained volunteer tutors in high-poverty elementary schools. $20,000

BELL

Charlotte, NC

Program support for a national summer learning program, serving 200 CMS scholars in rising kindergarten to third grades. $75,000

Better Basics

Birmingham, AL

Program support for the Reading Intervention program, providing instruction by certified teachers to struggling readers in grades 1-3 in Birmingham City Public Schools. $100,000
(over 2 years)

Heart Math Tutoring

Charlotte, NC

Program support for a math intervention program that provides curriculum and on-site support for volunteer tutors in high-poverty CMS elementary schools. $30,000

Horizons

Atlanta, GA

General operating support for Horizons Atlanta, a regional Horizons affiliate that offers summer learning programs to 400+ students from high-poverty schools. $40,000

International House

Charlotte, NC

Program support for the Rising Readers program, which provides intense literary support over the summer months to a growing population of English language learning students in CMS. $40,000

North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation

State Level - NC

General operating support for a collaborative effort to define NC’s measures of success, beginning at birth, that put children on a pathway to grade-level reading success by third grade. $25,000

Public School Forum

State Level - NC

Program support to expand the Beginning Teacher Network, an organization of early-career teachers aimed at decreasing teacher turnover rates, to Charlotte and other parts of North Carolina. $25,000

SAIL: Administration Fund

Birmingham, AL

Operating support to administer the SAIL: Summer Adventures in Learning funding collaborative, which provides a centralized application process, peer learning community, and evaluation support to Birmingham area summer learning programs. $10,000

SAIL: American Baseball Foundation

Birmingham, AL

Program support for an intensive reading and math summer learning program serving low-income students in Birmingham. Grant made through the SAIL: Summer Adventures In Learning funding collaborative. $30,000

SAIL: Summer Advantage

Birmingham, AL

Program support for this national summer learning model to serve students in Birmingham City elementary schools. Grant made through the SAIL: Summer Adventures In Learning funding collaborative. $60,000

Sugar Creek Charter School

Charlotte, NC

Program support for an innovative year-round effort ensuring that K-3 students are grade-level readers by the end of 3rd grade. $50,000

Teach for America - Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

General operating support to bolster Teach For America’s 550 corps members and alumni working in CMS, impacting 20,000 low-income students. $200,000
(over 3 years)

YMCA of Greater Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

Program support for the Y Readers summer program, closing the achievement gap and preventing summer learning loss for children at ten Charlotte-area school sites. $75,000

Spring 2016 Grants