Grants Fund

The Remember Ryan Grants Fund...

ADVOCACY FOR THE ARTS

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
FOR
THE 2012-13 SCHOOL YEAR!

(Application deadline-March 15, 2012)

Direct Gift Program requests are accepted at any time.

(see information below)

OVER $35,000

AWARDED TO AREA SCHOOLS

TO DATE.

2011-12 Grant Awards:

$1200- Meadow School No. Tonawanda

$1000- Gilmore School No. Tonawanda

$200- Spruce School No. Tonawanda

$550- Districtwide No. Tonawanda

$2500- St. Christopher School

$725 - Starpoint Intermediate School

About the Grants Fund...

The Remember Ryan Foundation Inc., through The Remember Ryan Grants Fund, awards visual and performing arts mini-grants to public, private and parochial elementary schools in Northern Erie and Southern Niagara Counties, New York within the geographic boundaries of the following school districts: Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda, Niagara-Wheatfield, North Tonawanda, Starpoint, Tonawanda, and Sweethome. Programs sponsored by Orleans-Niagara BOCES are also eligible.

There are three categories of mini-grants funded as follows:

1. LEVEL ONE - up to $200

Events, activities or programs that involve a limited number of student participants such as a single classroom, grade level or grouping.

2. LEVEL TWO - up to $500

Events, activities or programs that involve the entire student body of an individual school building.

3. LEVEL THREE - up to $1000

Events, activities or programs for any number of students that are curriculum-based and involve multiple sessions over a period of weeks.

Have an idea but not sure if it fits?

Complete an application anyway. As long as it’s related to the visual or performing arts, there’s a good chance it will be funded at some level.

To Apply for a Grant...
Please email the required application information below to:

GrantsFund@RememberRyanFoundation.org

1. TITLE - Descriptive title for the project
1.1   Primary contact person ( a valid e-mail address is required)
1.2  Others involved with the project
1.3  Grades and number of students involved
1.4  Duration of project

2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION - (250 words or less) - Describe the intended purpose of the project and how it relates to the visual and/or performing arts. New, innovative or different activities that go beyond regular classroom activities are encouraged. The more students involved in the activity the better.

3. PROJECT IMPACT - (100 words or less) - Describe how the project will impact students' appreciation of the visual or performing arts being addressed.

4. SHOWCASING THE ACTIVITY - Describe how the results of the activity will be showcased to the school and/or community.

5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - Describe how the Remember Ryan Foundation will be acknowledged at the school and community level.

6. PROPOSED BUDGET - A specific and detailed budget, including names of vendors is required. Do not include any items for which State Aid or other funding will be received. Include any in-kind contributions from other sources.
Indicate whether you would accept partial funding.

7. FINAL PRODUCT - Upon completion of the grant project, the recipient must provide the Foundation with a tangible product example for its archives. Product example could be a work of art, an audio or video recording, a scrapboook or other appropriate item. Describe the final product you plan to present to the Foundation.

NOTE - Ryan loved music and possessed an eclectic taste that ranged from "The Birthday Song" to the Isley Brothers' version of "Shout" to one of his favorite musical toys that featured the works of Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. Special consideration will be accorded any project that contains a music component.

DIRECT GIFTS PROGRAM

In addition to the Grants Fund, the Remember Ryan Foundation

offers a special non-competitive Direct Gifts Program. A school library-media specialist may request any visual or performing arts reference book up to $75.00 in value for placement in the library reference collection. Schools are eligible to receive one reference book per school year.

If the library-media specialist chooses not to make a request by September 30 of the school year, any teacher in that building may then request up to $75.00 in visual or performing arts instructional books for classroom use. Only one such request per school per school year will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis.

Book requests listing title, author(s), copyright date and ISBN should be sent to:

DirectGifts@RememberRyanFoundation.org