Education
Grants

Information: A two year grant to implement a 'Success School' pilot at Johnson Elementary School to reverse current academic trends in 3rd grade reading proficiency.

Information: To match funds from the state of Virginia and others for facility improvements and to procure four new permanent displays/exhibits.

Information: To help build The Center for Educational & Agricultural Development (CEAD)- a home for PCC’s Agribusiness Technology Program, along with a new food hub space to be operated by a local farmers' collective, an incubator farm to help lift up new farm entrepreneurs, and food retail to help build new markets and visibility for Caswell’s local food products.

Information: A one-year continuation of the Teacher Creativity grants and Educator of the Year award programs.

Information: A STEM Lab and after-school program matching grant made with the Golden Leaf Foundation. The grant will cover the following expenses: use of and fuel for tutoring buses; drivers for buses; teacher stipends and training on the PITSCO lab equipment and curriculum.

Information: Funding for a three-year History United project to cultivate an inclusive historical narrative and future identity for the Dan River Region.

Information: To continue and expand regional efforts to improve educational outcomes in Danville and Pittsylvania County.

Information: To create a "Maker's Space" in the Danville Public Library.

Information: 1:1 Caswell Flow - to provide every student in grades 3-12 in Caswell County with a mobile computer device.

Information: Matching funds to expand DCC's Career Coach Program throughout high schools in Danville and Pittsylvania County.

Information: Chamber Teacher Creativity and Educator of the Year programs

Information: Creation of the STEM Academy to increase the number of students pursuing STEM career opportunities. $669,100.00 2014 education http://www.pcs.k12.va.us/public/news.html

Information: Teacher Creativity and Teacher of the Year Grant Program for 2013

Information: To complete the groundwork for the Casville Youth Initiative and prepare an application for major funding to support the initiative as well as its replication/diffusion, over the next five years.

Information: To distribute UP 3D printers to 6 area schools and include a program to train area school systems on their use. Will encourage innovation in the local school system and inspire the creativity of the area's students.

Information: To provide funding for the Chamber of Commerce Teacher Creativity and Teacher Award program.

Information: For the implementation phase of the NoBell Coalition, which will serve as the coordinating association for a regional effort to improve access, quality and sustainability of the regions afterschool programs.

Information: Bachelor of Science Nursing Program

Information: To provide funding for the Chamber of Commerce Teacher Creativity and Teacher Award program.

Information: To continue the regional planning effort around out-of-school time learning (the NoBell initiative).

Information: Averett Strategic Planning Grant

Information: 2010 Teacher Creativity Grant program

Information: Partnership between the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and United Way of Danville-Pittsylvania Co. for a five-year grant for the School Readiness Initiative, Smart Beginnings.

Information: Financial Freedom is a financial education and savings incentive program proposed to help low-income consumers in Danville and Pittsylvania County make good financial decisions, resolve consumer problems and build savings so as to achieve economic self-sufficiency and break the cycle of poverty.

Information: $32,500 for the production of a strategic plan and $450,000 for operating expenses over a three year period. Operations expenses would be funded in the amounts of $225,000 for year one, $150,000 for year two, and $75,000 for year three and be based on an increasing amount of matching funds from the BGCD.

Information: To create the Smart Beginnings initiative in Danville and Pittsylvania County.