Teachers Start the Year With Learning Links Grants
Greater Cincinnati - September 21, 2011 - Learning Links, a
Grants for Kids program of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, recently awarded grants to 129 schools, totaling $115,758.
Learning Links provides grants of up to $1,000 for creative and interesting programs or events for classrooms in the Greater Cincinnati area. Since 1992, more than 2,500 Learning Links grants have been awarded, totaling $2 million.
Examples of activities funded this year include:
Fourth graders at
Campbell Ridge Elementary School (Campbell County) will learn about child slavery in Haiti. They will meet
Jean Robert Cadet, a former child slave, and learn about his nonprofit that focuses on ending child slavery. Funds will be used to purchase 85 backpacks for children in Haiti. They will create books and other supplies to include in the backpacks.
Delhi Middle School (Hamilton County) has a seventh and eighth grade boys’ book club. To encourage boys who profess to hate reading, a series has been designed to include books about sports as well as a field trip to Great American Ballpark, Paul Brown Stadium and Nippert Stadium.
An Autism Awareness Library is being created at
Fairfield Elementary (Butler County). “The Autism Acceptance Book,” will be made available to all classrooms of typical students. The goal is to raise Autism awareness, particularly in homerooms with students with Autism.
Please visit
www.gcfdn.org/gfk for more information about Learning Links and its companion program Summertime Kids.