The Stonington Education Fund (“SEF”) was founded in 1995 around a kitchen table by a small group of concerned parents who were seeking ways to provide more innovations and challenging programs for all children in the Stonington school district without adding any tax burdens for the community.

The foundation allows individuals, families, businesses, and corporations to make fully tax-deductible donations to benefit public school students.

As the SEF has evolved, it now funds primarily two types of grants.

 

The first is Mini-Grants that are awarded to teachers in the Fall by the Career Incentive Committee within the school district.

A Mini-Grant is usually of less than $500 and encompasses a classroom innovative teaching project with a maximum of $500.. The SEF annually commits roughly $5000 to total funding for Mini-Grants.

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The second type of grants the SEF funds is the “Apple Grant”. These funds are awarded each Spring for academically enriching, engaging, creative, and innovative programs and equipment that are sustainable as well as reach many students. The request of this type of grant must be of an academically enriching nature, engaging, creative, innovative. The SEF supports academics, technology, music, arts, and athletics.

Since 1995, the SEF has granted over $400,000, including almost $52,000 in Mini-Grants. Consider the positive impact this has had on Stonington’s students over the years! It is solely due to the generosity of our donors that the SEF has been able to provide money for learning opportunities our students would not otherwise have had.