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Fall 2022 Grant Recipients

The NCDKG Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2022 Grants.

FOUNDATION GRANTS
LEARNING/LITERACY PROJECT
Lauren Moore                   Kinston, NC                         Sigma                                   
THERE’S BIG MONEY IN STUDENT GROWTH INCENTIVES - The goal of this project is to encourage students to participate in targeted and individualized instruction. Students will be monitored by local and state assessments.  This grant will be used to purchase incentive items for a raffle drawing. Students receive a raffle ticket for each point of growth. The opportunity to win items will motivate students to participate in targeted instruction and show significant gains in benchmark testing data.

Dr. Dutchess Maye          Raleigh, NC                         Delta Beta                          
BE GREAT WITH eduCRATE! – This project will provide two beginning teachers in Chatham and Wayne Counties with eduCrate materials designed to provide professional growth for these teachers , including student-centered text and accompanying instructional guide, with strategies for teacher use.

Dr. Laura Szech and Kemeka Sidbury       Wilmington, NC                               
LITERACY AND COOKING: A FAMILY AND COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB PROJECT – This project will enable sixth grade students and their parents to participate in a literacy-focused cooking club using the book Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora. After families and students read and discuss the stories at home together, they will then meet in groups to discuss the stories and cook a recipe together.  This project will provide the food for the group meals.

Amy Barsanti                      Plymouth, NC                    Beta Upsilon                     
WHATEVER THE WEATHER – This project will enable students in grade 2 to use technologically sophisticated and student-created tools to measure weather conditions.

Natalie Hulbert                 Clayton, NC                         Delta Mu                            
DASH AND ROBOT READING – This project will help purchase Dash and Reading Robots for K-5 students.
 
FOUNDATION GRANTS
CONTINUING EDUCATION for PROFESSIONAL/PERSONAL GROWTH
Anne-Marie Hale              Hickory, NC                         Nu                                         
                Pursue doctoral program in Curriculum and Instruction at Gardner-Webb University.

Cindy Seymour                 New Bern, NC                    Alpha Psi                                             
                Attend NABT Professional Development Conference for Biology teachers

Nancy Cox                           Durham, NC                        Beta Iota                             
Attend GET FULLY-FUNDED—GOALS BUSTERS CLUB, an online program to help fundraising professionals in best practices.

Natalie Hulbert                 Clayton, NC                         Delta Mu                            
                Help fund courses in doctoral program at Walden University
  
McCALL ENDOWMENT
Kathy Heffner                    Lenoir, NC                           Alpha Nu                                            
QUILTING OUR SCHOOL’S PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE – This project will purchase supplies for students to create three quilts to showcase the school’s history from 1900 to 2022+

Brittany Suttles                 Morganton, NC                                           
THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL – This project will purchase tickets for elementary and middle school students who otherwise could not afford it to attend the musical.

Holly Hargett                     Lenoir, NC                                                                      
MUSIC AND RHYTHM FROM THE SOUL – This project will purchase percussion instruments for the music program in Grades K-7.

Amy Alexander                 Morganton, NC                 Alpha Nu                            
NEW PERSPECTIVES AND ENSEMBLE ENRICHMENT PROJECT FOR BAND AND CHORUS - This project will fund collaboration with high school and collegiate ensembles and invite accomplished directors/musicians into the middle school classroom.

Mary Katherine Taylor   Morganton, NC                 Alpha Nu                            
MAKING MUSIC WITH DRUMS – This project will purchase drum kits for the music program in an elementary school.
 
CRANFORD ENDOWMENT
Meggan Eckard                 Lenoir, NC                           Alpha Nu                                            
CREATING A LOVE FOR READING THROUGH READ-ALOUD BOOKS - This project will purchase grade-appropriate classroom sets of novels in a new charter school.

Leslie Barger                      Hudson, NC                        Alpha Nu                            
BOOKS FOR LISTENING AND LEARNING CENTERS – This project will purchase books for beginning readers of  Spanish as part of the classroom Listening and Learning Center to enable every student to have a book.
 
COPELAND ENDOWMENT
Rumonda Lynn Evans     Newton, NC                       Nu                                         
RE-WRITE BOARDS TO SHOW WHAT WE KNOW – This project will purchase boards for two classrooms to use during daily practice in phonics, to encode and decode words, and also for daily math practice.

Allison Patton                    Newton, NC                       Nu                                         
LET ME SHOW YOU MY WORK WITH RE-WRITE TABLETS – This project will purchase re-write boards for classroom use for first grade Dual Immersion students.

Myron Massey                  Claremont, NC                                                                  
EXPAND THE BUNKER HILL BAND LIBRARY – This project will add contemporary titles to perform at various adjudicated events and concerts.

Lee Ann Perry                    Vale, NC                               Nu                                         
READING S’MORE BOOKS – This project will purchase books for K-6 students to take home after participating in a school-sponsored family reading night.

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Updated February 7, 2023