At the Rotary Club of Folsom meeting on February 6, 17 teachers from Folsom schools received grants ranging from $150 to $500. Bob Mange introduced each teacher who was at the meeting. Sonny Da Marto, of the Rotary Club of Folsom Lake and Ray Ward, Rotary District 5180 District Governor, presented the checks to each teacher. The teachers then told us their grade level and a little about what they were doing with the grant.
Teachers with Bob Mange standing on the right. |
 One of the teachers receiving the One of the teachers explaining check from District Governor her project. Ray Ward. The Rotary Teacher Grant program started as a club project 23 years ago. Each year we send out applications to all the Folsom schools and encourage teachers to apply for a grant to fund a project, materials and/or equipment for their class or classes. The grants started out with a maximum of $250 but thanks to the generosity of our members, this will be the fifth year that our grants have been offered up to $500. Having the Rotary Club of Folsom Lake join with us again this year made it possible to provide a total of $7,500 in grants. To date. including tonight, Folsom Rotary has provided 310 teachers with grants totaling just under $80,000.00. This year we had 33 teacher applications from 10 schools and were able to fund 17 Grants. The teachers who received grants this year from the Rotary Club of Folsom and Rotary Club of Folsom Lake and their projects were:
The seventeen grants this year totaled $7,257.08.. |