2008-09 Grants and Awards

The Brookline Education Foundation is pleased to award the following grants this year:

Adam Russell Gelfand Fellowship is awarded annually to a Teacher Grant recipient. The award includes the funded grant, an additional stipend, and a small gift.

Charlie Baker Legacy Award will be selected from among Teacher Grant proposals in the areas of US History and/or World Geography. The purposes of the grant are twofold: to encourage the study of the United States’ economic, environmental, ethnic, racial, or cultural past with a view toward improving one’s knowledge of the history of the United States and to encourage the study of World Geography with a view toward promoting and increasing geographic literacy in the classroom. An additional $1,000 will be awarded to extend the scope of the funded project.

Examples of projects that would be eligible for the Charlie Baker Legacy Award include, but are not limited to, the following:

•  Travel to African countries to research origins of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

•  Visit and research of Hopi Indian Reservations

•  Study of migration and assimilation of immigrant households

•  Attendance at a workshop for educators at Ellis Island

•  Work with the Map Room staff at the Boston Public Library to create lessons and a class visit

Funds may be used to pay for travel to research sites, stipends, course tuition, and supplies directly related to the project.

Andrea Cilley Environmental Education Grant was established to honor the memory of Andrea Cilley, a Runkle School parent and community activist who died suddenly in January 2007. This grant is a funding opportunity for educators interested in enhancing education about recycling and environmentalism, issues that Ms. Cilley passionately worked to support. The recipient will be selected from Teacher and Collaborative Grant proposals.