COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The 2020 Coldwater Community Schools Enrichment Fund mini-grants will be announced in May and an update on the fund was delivered Thursday at the weekly meeting of the Coldwater Township Sunrise Rotary Club.
The fund is managed by the Branch County Community Foundation. Lisa Miller, who is a member of the advisory board which reviews the grant applications from teachers and then recommends the award recipients, spoke to Rotarians and explained the grants support new programs and initiatives that promote excellence in education, basically anything that is able to enrich a student’s experience, including technology.
Miller detailed how two teachers were provided with video equipment to record their classroom lessons so that if a student had missed that day at school, they could go to a website and watch the entire lecture instead of having to ask somebody else for their written notes. Since 2005, the fund, which has grown to $130,000, has awarded over 40 grants totaling more than $25,000.
Information on the various options to make donations to the Enrichment Fund can be found online at brcofoundation.org or call (517)278-4517.
