The
Margaret Hall Foundation awarded a total of $115,005 in grants to
11 schools for the 2003-04 school year. The grants range in amounts
from $4,982 to $15,850.
Augusta
Preparatory Day School, Martinez, GA
A
grant was awarded to Augusta Prep for equipment to upgrade and strengthen
its science program.
The
Brearley School, New York, NY
The
Brearley School received a grant to equip art history, studio art,
and history classrooms with interactive technology and to revise and
develop curriculum.
James
F. Farr Academy, Cambridge, MA
A
grant was awarded to The James F. Farr Academy, a school for at-risk
students, for the expansion of its science laboratory and for the
construction of a reference library room.
Lotts
Creek Community School, Hazard, KY
Lotts
Creek received a grant to partially fund a mentoring program conducted
by at-risk students in the upper school for children who are struggling
academically in the grade school.
The
Madiera School, McLean, VA
The
Madiera School received a grant for the purchase of equipment - projectors
and white board converters - to enhance and expand the students' educational
experience.
Miss
Hall's School, Pittsfield, MA
A
grant was given to Miss Hall's School to fund the EMERGE Leadership
Research Project - a girl-driven, longitudinal, intergenerational
action research project designed to foster girls' leadership and sense
of personal authority.
New
Roads School, Santa Monica, CA
A
grant was awarded to New Roads School to take students musically trained
in the school's Aube Tzerko Piano Academy into the community to share
the students' prodigious talents through recitals and chamber music
performances given for children in schools where music programs have
been drastically cut and for senior citizens.