Student Success
Endowments for Student Success support students by removing barriers to learning, providing enrichment opportunities, and encouraging students to become successful community citizens.
Donors of all sizes can make a difference for local students by supporting any of our funds for Beaver Island, Boyne City, Boyne Falls, Charlevoix or East Jordan. You can even start your own Student Success Fund for an even bigger impact.
The Community Foundation partners with school leaders to offer strategic support to make a difference where tax support can't. Our staff is in regular contact with pre-K through 12 educators who understand issues families, students, and schools are facing today. School partners are also given the flexibility to put the dollars to best use as needs change over time.
Support one of our Student Success Funds:
Past Student Success Grants
- 2024
Boyne City Public Schools
The “Where Everyone Belongs” program is a mentoring program that builds leadership skills for 8th graders and creates a safe transition for 5th graders coming into middle school. Grant funds will allow for social and academic events, and monthly check-ins.
Boyne Falls Public Schools
BFPS is seeking funding for a new multidisciplinary, student-led curriculum revolving around hydroponic gardening that will also expand the impact of the outdoor garden - which currently supplies the school salad bar - into the winter months. Grant funds will purchase a hydroponic growing tower and support relevant curriculum.
Charlevoix Public Schools
To enhance physical education and optimize the weight room experience, an update in equipment is essential. Grant funds will help purchase air bikes, allowing for differentiated instruction while catering to varying fitness levels and goals.
Sensory exploration includes the use of thoughtfully curated, interesting and engaging items that are put together for independent investigation by young students that help with fine motor skills, increase intellectual development, provide a potentially calming experience, increase language development, and encourage cooperative play. Grant funds will purchase sensory exploration bins for CPS preschools.
The Document Based Question (DBQ) Project provides ready-made lessons and resources that allow students to engage with primary source documents and complete rigorous reading assignments that will better prepare them for standardized testing and college courses. Grant funds will help purchase the DBQ Project binders for each of the four high school level social studies courses currently offered.
CPS is requesting funding for phomemo printers - mini printers that connect via Bluetooth to a cell phone. These allow paraprofessionals to adhere photos via sticky paper to student notebooks, so students can focus on the verbal instruction while also freeing up space for paraprofessionals to focus on directly assisting the students. Grant funds will purchase phomemo printers.
CPS seeks to create complete classroom sets of OSMO coding kits and 3D pens across the grade levels, which spark creativity, perseverance, independent learning, and critical thinking skills and align with STEM curriculum goals. Grant funds will help purchase STEM classroom sets.
The newly created digital art class has sparked significant interest among students, but they lack the equipment and resources to display their artwork professionally. Grant funds will support enhancing digital displays of student artwork while removing economic and technological barriers with the purchase of a high-quality large-format printer and a display screen.
Charlevoix Middle High School seeks to rehabilitate the garden and use hands-on learning experiences to teach sustainable agriculture. Grants funds will provide fencing, perennial fruiting tress and shrubs, a vegetable garden, and maple syrup harvesting equipment.
The Rayder Garden Crew seeks to provide a local source of produce for the school kitchen, foster community involvement within the special education program, and enhance the educational experiences of the Transitions Class - designed to bridge the gap between traditional classroom learning and real-world experiences. Grant funds will help purchase a greenhouse for the school.
East Jordan Public Schools
EJPS looks to improve the educational experience for students and enrich the community through the re-establishment of the drama program. Grant funds will help purchase equipment and technology for the community auditorium to support programs and productions.
- 2023
Beaver Island Community School
Without a rigorous K-12 physical education program, there is a need to provide activities to get students outdoors during the winter time to engage in fun exercise activities, encourage an active lifestyle, and encourage physical health. From an academic learning standpoint, the links between physical fitness, mental health, and academic success are well-documented. In addition to physical fitness, the snowshoes will encourage winter outdoor ecological learning activities. Grant funds will purchase 35 snowshoes of varying sizes for student and community use.
Boyne City Public Schools
"Where Everybody Belongs," (WEB) is a middle school orientation, mentoring, and transition program that welcomes 5th graders and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their middle school experience. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, the program trains mentors from the 8th-grade class to be WEB Leaders who guide 5th graders. Grant funds will purchase supplies for training, games, and bonding events.
Charlevoix Public Schools
The Rayder CREW Culturize initiative is intended to enhance students' overall experience by creating a positive environment, fostering a strong sense of community, reinforcing a school sense of pride, and enhancing student attendance and wellness. Grant funds will purchase phase one of the culture signs.
Charlevoix Elementary School needs support for the new STEM class for K-6 graders, over 400 students daily. Grant funds will purchase a 3D printer and supplies, Dash Robots, and Code and Go Robots to practice computational thinking, design thinking, coding, programming, and problem solving.
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