The Clipper Foundation Grant

Grants to New Hampshire K-12 educators in eligible locations to enhance the quality of public school education. Funding is intended to support creative programming, new teaching practices, and the achievement of educational excellence. The Foundation is soliciting proposals from Educators in SAU #50 and #52 (Portsmouth, Greenland, New Castle, Newington, and Rye).

The Clipper Foundation aims to support curriculum enhancements, innovative programming, and partnerships within the local community that will foster excellence in local public schools. In many ways, a grant from The Clipper Foundation can be viewed as seed money for public education “research and development”.

Today The Clipper Foundation is a community-wide partnership whose mission is to enhance the quality of public education within the K-12 public schools in the Seacoast area by:

• Funding innovative initiatives that fall outside the school budget
• Working collaboratively with school districts to achieve their vision
• Building community-wide support for the benefit of local schools

The Foundation has identified the following priorities for evaluating grant proposals. Preference will be given to proposals that:

• Create programs that are innovative and connect to the curriculum
  
• Explore new teaching practices
• Include experiential, cross-disciplinary, or multi-grade learning experiences
• Build community connections
• Enable clear and demonstrable growth in student learning
• Achieve goals that are aligned with SAU 50 and 52
• Create programs that have the potential to be replicated and benefit the school or district rather than a single classroom