Grants
2025-2026 grant applications are now available.
GRANT GUIDELINES
The McCall – Donnelly Education Foundation is now accepting applications for projects that fall within any of the following categories. Projects must clearly meet the intent of one of the following categories to be considered:
- Academic Innovation: This category supports innovative programs and projects that enhance learning, foster critical thinking, and prepare students for a dynamic future. Special consideration given for upper-level foreign language programs.
- Student Engagement and Well-being: Initiatives that promote mental health, well-being, and a sense of belonging among students. Special consideration given to programs that promote kindness, social well-being and/or address bullying.
- Health & Nutrition: Projects focused on innovative approaches to healthier lifestyles, particularly in nutrition. Special consideration given to programs that promote lifetime sports.
- Arts & Creativity: Programs that encourage creative thinking and sustainable growth in the arts and music.
2023 GRANT AWARDS
- Mentoring Program
- Real Foods Vending Machine
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Inspiring Lifetime Fitness
- Recording Studio/Quiet Testing Space
2023 TOTAL: $34,738.00
2022 GRANT AWARDS
- Viking School of Spin Rides On
- Real Foods Vending Machine
- I Can Invent Series
- Ceramics Visual Arts Program
- Squirrel’s Nest
- Sorensen Library for All
2022 TOTAL: $40,525.00
2021 GRANT AWARDS
- School of Rock
- Stibnite Forest Classroom
- Outdoor Local Learning
- Viking School of Spin
2021 TOTAL: $40,908.00
2020 GRANT AWARDS
- Peer Mentor Program-All Schools
- Science Trailer/Lab-DES/BRMES/PLMS
- McCall Library-Book Bike-BRMES/PLMS
- MOSS-Covid-19 MOSS Day Program-BRMES/DES
2020 TOTAL: $50,146
2019 GRANT AWARDS
- UI/MOSS & MDSD Teacher Workshop Place-Based Learning
- BRMES/DES/HHS
Kathryn Wheeler Outdoor L.E.A.D.E.R.S. Climbing Wall PLMS
2019 TOTAL: $26,263
2018 GRANT AWARDS
- Outdoor Classroom DES
- Art Creative Arts Grades 3-5 BRMES & DES
- 6th Grade Welcome to 6th Grade PLMS
- Music Ukuleles BRMES
- Cochran Plastics – 3D Printers PLMS/MDHS/HHS
2018 TOTAL: $31,288
2017 GRANT AWARDS
- Heartland High School – Commercial Kitchen HHS
- Sean Jeffries – Disc Golf BRMES
- 6th Grade Teachers – Quaker Hill Ropes Course PLMS
- MDSD – Marketing Brochure
- McCall Arts & Humanities – 4th Grade Art
- MOSS – Engineering in Community
2017 TOTAL: $44,428
2016 GRANT AWARDS
- Tricia Jackson – Espanol Rapido BRMES
- Jake Olson – Espanol Rapido DES
- H. Saucier/A. Standar – Kinder Learning Come Alive BRMES
- MOSS – Sustaining STEM Heartland High School
- Erin Sinclair – Steam Powered Library PLMS
- BRMES Science Teachers – Science Gallery BRMES
- Melissa Maini – Weather Station DES
- Brandi Davydov – Engineering of Energy Transfer BRMES
- McCall Music Society – High Country Strings PLMS/MDHS
- PLCA – Adventures in the Outdoors BRMES
2016 TOTAL: $40,534
2015 GRANT AWARDS
- MOSS – Sustaining STEM Heartland HS
- Jake Olson – Espanol Rapido DES, BRMES
- Audrey Linville – Performing Arts Facility MDHS
- Leslie Minshall – Debate Program PLMC
- McCall Arts & Humanities – Children’s Theater BRMES, DES, PLMS
2015 TOTAL: $34,206
2014 GRANT AWARDS
- Jake Olson – Espanol Rapido Donnelly Elementary
- PLCA – Club Espanol BRMES, PLCA
- PLCA – Expanding Horizons After School Program BRMES
- MOSS – STEM Education II HHS
- Dittmer/Foudy – Hometown Art MDHS, BRMES
- Susan Beuscher – Snowshoes PLCA
- Little Ski Hill – After School Program BRMES, DES
- McCall Arts & Humanities – Children’s Theater BRMES, DES
2014 TOTAL: $29,744
2013 GRANT AWARDS
- Debbie Fereday – Project Based Learning using STEM
- Little Ski Hill – After School Program Scholarships
- Payette Lakes Community Association – Diverse Learning Opportunities
- Lida Clouser – Elementary Spanish Club
- Donnelly Elementary School Greenhouse
- McCall Outdoor Science School – STEM at Heartland High School
2013 TOTAL: $34,762
2012 GRANT AWARDS
- Payette Lakes Community Association – Lifestyles Project
- Donnelly Elementary – Music Matters Project
- Donnelly Elementary’s PTO – Missoula Children’s Theatre
- Donnelly Elementary – Kindergarten Touch Math Project
- PLMS – Greenhouse Project
- PLMS – 21st Century Learner Project
- MDHS Winter Sports Club – Winter Sports Are for Everyone
- MDHS Library – Looking at Poetry in New Ways
2012 TOTAL: $29,987
2011 GRANT AWARDS
- Powers of Ten
- Camp Invention
- Outdoor Science
- Global Explorers
- Travelling Trunks
2011 TOTAL: $29,711.00
2010 GRANT AWARDS
- Outdoor Science & Community Building
- Eagle Video Broadcast System
- First LEGO League
- What’s Inside & How Does It Work?
- Creating With Glass: Collaborative Art
2010 TOTAL: $29,430.00
2009 GRANT AWARDS
- Extreme Challenge Event
- Trout in the Classroom
- Healthy Options Student Store
- Mexican Music and Dance
- Vermicompost & Horticulture
- Outdoor Science
- Nonfiction Book Update
- Expansion of After School Program
- Showshoes for Donnelly Elementary
2009 TOTAL: $32,115.00
2008 GRANT AWARDS
- Boulder Creek Study
- Conversations About Literacy
- Smart Music
- Artist in 4th Grade
- Volunteer Coordinator
- NCCE Math Conference
2008 TOTAL: $29,831.00
2007 GRANT AWARDS
- Guest Artists in the Classroom
- Books for Sustainability Class
- Personal items for students in detention
- Classroom Performance System
- Conversational Spanish Class
- Nonfiction Book Upgrade
- Read-Aloud Program for Parents
- Payette Lakes Ski Club after school program
- Art Collection Display
- Summer Reading Camp
- Bilingual Program at Library
- Math conference in SLC
- Snowshoes for BMES
- Guest Artists in 5th Grade
- AWESOME intern
2007 TOTAL: $75,000.00
GRANT SPOTLIGHT
FINDING THE HEART(LAND) IN STEM EDUCATION
The University of Idaho McCall Outdoor Science School (MOSS), has been working with McCall-Donnelly students since 2005. This grant allows continuation of an outdoor, place-based STEM program for Heartland High School students first piloted in 2014. The 1-credit program will count towards students’ graduation requirements.
Contact
P.O. Box 3048
McCall, Idaho 83638
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