2011-2012 Grant Awards

The Salem Education Foundation is pleased to announce the grant awards for the 2011-12 school year.  Thanks to the generosity of the community, we are once again able to fund 74% of the total submissions, totaling $30,527.37. Congratulations to all of this year’s SEF grant recipients! To view project descriptions for this year’s grants, click here.

Arts, Music and Culture


Thinking locally – COLLABORATIVE

Dominion Salem Harbor Station Award

SHS & Carlton Jesse Stansfield $4,000.00
Celebrating The Seasons With Asian-Style

Folding Screens

Bates Nancy Antrim $750.00
Van Gogh: swirls and twirls

Rick Guttenberg Award


HMLS Donna Pelletier $411.92
Enter the 3rd Dimension

Betsey Award


Collins Spiridoula Politis $957.00
What’s fun to play?  Ukuleles!!!! Bates Ann Berman $844.96


Family Involvement/School or Life Preparedness


Teaching Through Social Stories TM Bentley Carol Fine $1,000.00


i see: i learn SHS Maureen Branconnier $986.00


Summer Community Enrichment Program Collins Leo Higgins $300.00


Health and Wellness


Improving Hands, Hearts and Minds through

Schoolyard Games – COLLABORATIVE

HMLS Kevin Andrews $740.00
Physical Education Bates AnnMarie Bedard $935.00


Teen Pregnancy Awareness Initiative SHS Gayle Sullivan $500.00


Breathing Life into Learning

Salem Academy Charter School “Reach the Beach” Award


SECC Kathleen Boucher $700.00
Gay Straight Alliance SACS Beth OBrien $800.00


Literacy/Language Arts


Puppet Possibilities – A Stories to Stage Project WHES Marcy Nelson $1,000.00


The Art and Science of Hugo Cabret Saltonstall Susan Marsh $997.55


Hispanic Heritage and the Other American Lit

Ives Award


SACS Denise Granniss $535.00
Bully Out with SACS Shawn Berry $1,000.00


NBS Literacy Enrichment Project NBS Garth J McKinney $500.00


Myths, Heroes and Monsters Collins Ruth Hendrickson $670.00


Ghost Girl Reading Club Saltonstall Kathryn DiPietro $810.00


“Yoga for All”

Salem Academy Charter School “Reach the Beach” Award


NBS Nicole Brunelle $700.00
Access to Literature: High Interest Leveled

Books for English Language Learners

Bentley Carol Fine $400.00
Social Studies


Reenacting Salem History

Hawthorne Hotel Award


Saltonstall Kathryn DiPietro $1,000.00
Asia Alive! SACS Todd Schumacher $1,000.00


8th grade World History

PEM Partnership

Collins Jon Workman In-kind award
8th grade World History

PEM Partnership

Collins Linda Barry In-kind award
Early American History Comes Alive SACS Chris Maniachi $750.00


World History: Beyond the Textbook

Stephen O’Grady Award


SACS Robert Pelletier $780.00
STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math)


Freshman Field Scientists! Monitoring

Marine Invasive Species in Salem

Dominion Salem Harbor Station Award


SHS Kristen Augulewicz $1,000.00
Down Hill Racer Challenge Collins Bob Brown $1,000.00


Local Marine Waters and the Life Within SHS William Warren $824.97


Crash Test Dummies NBS Steven Landry $600.00


Outdoor Learning Center HMLS Paul Kelly $500.00


Cooking Across the Curriculum WHES Cynthia Watkins $500.00


Is that your final answer? SHS Danielle Marquis $199.97


Literature for Lifelong Learning Collins Nancy Toney $735.00


World Language


Cultural Crafts SACS Annie Brobst $500.00


World Studies


Digging up the Past SACS Susana Sinclair $1,000.00


Earth View Collins Bonnie Muse $600.00