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Edward E. Ford TrustFrom their website: Grant History By June 2004, the Board had awarded more than 2,000 grants totaling $81,000,000 since its inception in 1957. It should be noted that no attempt has been made to emphasize any particular aspect of the independent secondary school. The Board has been open to the variety of needs and priorities presented to it by schools. It has supported many areas including buildings, other physical facilities, curriculum, endowment, faculty and scholarships as well as special programs pertaining to libraries, the environment, annual giving, technology, and minority students. Just as it has been open in this respect, it has not favored any particular type of school. Over the years the Foundation has made many grants in support of endowment. There is no question of the importance of a strong and growing endowment to the health of a school, but the Board intends to concentrate its efforts going forward on grants for direct application to program initiatives in support of faculty, students or development of the educational program. Some endowment grants may be made to spur endowment giving in schools that are young or without a meaningful endowment, but for schools with established endowments such grants would only be considered if leveraged significantly by matching funds. Schools with endowments of $20,000 or more per student are advised to seek funding for other needs. In the early years, grants of more than two million dollars were made to thirty-three different organizations interested in and promoting private education. Scholarships, teacher intern programs, alcohol and drug education, trustee seminars, summer workshops, minority affairs and career resources are typical examples. Apart from a program of grants to State and Regional Member Associations of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), such grants are now made only as rare exceptions to the policy of giving to independent secondary schools holding full membership in the NAIS. All grants to schools have a matching component (at least one-to-one). Scholarships, teacher intern programs, alchohol and drug education, trustee seminars, summer workshops, minority affairs and career resources are typical examples of grants made in the recent years. A number of projects supported by the Foundation which seem likely to be of particular interest to others are described in the Projects section of this website (click here) and on the websites of the schools and associations that developed them, to which links are provided. The support a Foundation can offer for such projects is important, but it is also important to ensure that the work done is seen by others so that it can be adapted and put to use wherever that seems likely to be of value. There are too few forums for dissemination of the innovative work of individual independent schools, and the Board is eager to provide this modest one for work that it has been able to support. The office of the Foundation’s Executive Director, Robert Hallett, is located in Towson, Maryland Website: http://www.eeford.org/homepage/index.asp
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