Brunswick foundation helps teachers respond to pandemic with mini-grants
This school year the Brunswick Community Education Foundation provided smaller grants to more teachers and with more frequency.
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The Brunswick Community Education Foundation decided to offer emergency mini-grants to Brunswick school teachers this school year, helping them find new and safe ways to teach students during a pandemic.
The donation-based foundation offers grant applications once a year but board member Susan Olcott said the board agreed to offer four rounds this year. The organization just finished its third round of applications this school year.
“At the very beginning of the pandemic, there was obviously an immediate need for technology that came from talking to people in the district and superintendent’s office,” Olcott, a member of the Brunswick foundation’s board. “We were able to raise a bunch of money and purchase 50 laptops just in the thick of things and following that, we started to get some interesting emails from teachers saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got this idea. It’s outside of the regular funding cycle; would you consider supporting a project like this?'”