DCSF Grants

Applying for a Grant

If you're looking to apply for grant money, $50,000 is now available. Click here for the official announcement and information. The application and guidlines for the grants are also available for download. For further information, please contact the Demopolis City Schools Foundation.

After a year's absence, the Prize Patrol visited all four campuses of Demopolis City Schools Thursday, September 30, to award more than $25,000 in grants to teachers.

The Foundation returned to the practice of awarding grants this fall after the funds budgeted last year were used to make up the gap left by the state Department of Education's decision to eliminate teacher-fee money because of budget shortfalls.

The Foundation's funds this year were divided between grants and teacher-fee money. In addition to the grants, another $25,000 will be divided among all the certified educators in the school system.

Further, the $1,000 Hugh A. Lloyd Excellence in Education Award, traditionally given to a teacher that exemplifies the best in education, will be split among the four school libraries.

The Foundation's Grants Committee reviewed 25 applications that asked for a total of $58,640.39. Of those 17 were fully or partially funded for a total of $25,061.63.

Broken down by campus, Westside Elementary received $3,084.10; U.S. Jones Elementary, $11,009.06; Demopolis Middle, $4,581, and Demopolis High, $6,387.47.

Since the Foundation began its grants program in 1994, more than $806,000 has gone into classrooms for projects, programs and equipment that the school system cannot pay for. It's all part of the Foundation's mission to foster and promote excellence in Demopolis public schools by providing the resources needed to influence the success of all students.

Grants are provided through Foundation memberships, fund-raising activities and interest on investments.

The following are the recipients, their projects and funding levels.

Westside Elementary School

Debbie Butler, "Feed the Teachers", $1,070 partially funded, for equipment and materials for professional development.

Connie Brown, "Grandpas, Daddies and Uncles, Too, Make a Difference When They Read to You!", $714.10, partially funded, for a project to encourage male role models to read to children.

Lori Giles, "Popular Picks - Nonfiction/Fiction AR Readers K-2", $1,300 partially funded, for Accelerated Reader books and test disks.

U.S. Jones Elementary School

Stephanie Polk, "Laptops for the Technology Advanced Classroom," $1,176.54, partially funded, for three mini-laptop computers.

Dana Hill, "Let's Explore the World with Laptops," $1,176.54, partially funded, for three mini-laptops.

Julie Harrison and Tanya Patterson, "Mind Tools," $2,247, partially funded for an electronic smart board.

Deborah McAfee, "Smart Board for Smart Kids," $2,247, fully funded for an electronic smart board.

Dana Hill and Trish McVay, project leaders, "Vamos a aprender Espanol! (Let's Learn Spanish!)", $762, partially funded, for Rosetta Stone Spanish language-learning software.

Mary Stuedeman and Penny Stanford, "Technology Tykes," $3,399.98, partially funded, for two white boards.

Demopolis Middle School

Derrick Hester, "Get on Board!", $3,695 fully funded, for a Promethan Board and software.

Mesha Smith, "ELMO - More Than a Puppet on Sesame Street," $924 fully funded, for an ELMO Movile Visual Presenter and Cart.

Demopolis High School

Sydney Chasteen and Amie Attaway, "ELMO Does It All in the Foreign Language Classroom," $589.80, partially funded for an ELMO.

Leslie Gibbs, "Tools for In-Depth Analysis of Literature, Part 9," $523.75, partially funded for a set of novels for the classroom.

Cynthia Whitlock, "The Power of Print 2010," $750, partially funded, for materials needed in the production of long-lasting visual aids.

Cynthia Phillips, "FROGuts 2010," $325, fully funded, for software demonstrating dissections.

Jody White, "Artist in Residence Teaching Artist for Life," $3,000, partially funded, to support a visiting teaching artist in the classroom.

Matthew Fields, "Proposal for the Replacement of High School Band Instruments," $1,198.92, fully funded, for two flutes.