Building a foundation for education...
The Matanuska Susitna Schools Foundation supports excellence in the Matanuska Susitna School District by providing supplemental funding for education. Children are our future. Therefore, investments in improving educational opportunities for kids are investments in our community and society as a whole.
The Matanuska-Susitna Schools Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation organized to support the educational needs of our school district. Contributions are exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) and deductible under section 170 of the Code.
Mat-Su Imagination Library
Read more about the Imagination Library that has come to the Mat-Su Valley. Registration forms are available for all Mat-Su Borough residents at neighborhood schools and local libraries. Or register online.
Teacher Grants
Mat-Su Schools Foundation grant deadline for 2011 is now closed. The next grant cycle will begin next October 2012.
MSBSD Inside News Article on some teacher grants awarded for FY10 (see page 6).
Teacher Grants Awarded in 2011
Connie Bamburg, Fronteras Spanish Immersion Charter School -- reading "phonics phones"
Carrie Day, Wasilla Middle School -- after-school program materials
Diony Tribble, Burchell High School -- robotics materials
Misty Holler, Academy Charter School -- community portrait/biography materials
Michelle Booth, Academy Charter School -- "Where in the World" geography materials
Jared Schumacher, Academy Charter School -- avalanche awareness science unit equipment
Debbie Melton, Machetanz Elementary -- emergent readers library books
$1,000 Gorilla Fireworks Grant Awarded to:
Kris Wagoner, Houston High School -- Business Professionals of America Club
Pick. Click. Give.
Give a part of your PFD to MSSF through the Charitable Contributions Program
Mat-Su Schools Foundation is pleased to announce that we are part of the new PFD Charitable Contributions Program. The Alaska Legislature passed a law in 2008 making this new way to give possible for all Alaskans filing for their PFD on-line. We are excited about the opportunity that it provides all Alaskans to give to their favorite nonprofit organizations.By giving through this program, you join others to become an important force in bettering our communities and our state. For those of you who already support MSSF, we appreciate your gifts and hope you will use this option to make an additional donation.
How to Donate Using Your Dividend:
When you go online to sign up for you dividend, you will see the option called " Gift of Giving".1. Click the "Gift of Giving" option
2. Choose the (Statewide) Region
3. Choose (Mat-Su Schools Foundation) name
4. Choose the amount you would like to donate
5. Enter your contact information so we are able to acknowledge you contributed
Thank you for your donation!
You can find more information about the program, including frequently asked questions here, or you may email us.
ssMat-Su schools get grants
FOUNDATION: Most go to enhance existing educational programs.
By T.C. MITCHELL
Anchorage Daily News
PALMER -- The Mat-Su Schools Foundation has awarded $500 grants to 11 borough schools, and a private company has chipped in $1,000.
The $1,000 grant goes annually to a Houston-area school, and this year it was awarded to Houston High School.
The foundation grants went to:
• Fronteras Immersion Charter School. Teacher Hilarie Mauldin will spend the money on MP3 players to aid Spanish language acquisition in school as well as in the home.
• Fronteras also got a grant for Connie Bamburg's teaching second- and third-grade students learn to knit baby hats for the community using a loom.
• Glacier View School also got two grants. Teacher Mark Owen will work with students on using a computer-based, interactive music education program. Joel Moorman's greenhouse program allows students to design and build a school greenhouse, growing plants and exploring with other science-related activities.
• Big Lake Elementary teacher Stephen Moore, for purchasing chess sets and other materials for a chess program.
• Talkeetna Elementary School, for teacher Catherine Nelson's "Native Drums" program that provides materials to make Native drums for school and community performances.
• Colony High School's Jan Welsh, who has been working to expand the school's recycling program, which special education students run.
• Goose Bay Elementary School received two grants. One goes to a program that provides parenting materials and literacy resources for lending to families and holding parent workshops. The teacher is Heidi Johnson. The other helps teacher Sharon Johnson provide tubs of books -- fiction and non-fiction -- to first- and second-graders to help promote early interest in literature.
• Janis Mack, Carolyn Rains and Brian Cook at Wasilla Middle School are exploring "Shackleton's Adventure" with materials and supplies for eighth-grade student simulation projects.
• Birchtree Charter School principal Susan McCauley's project gives students materials to study basic laws of physics, electricity, magnetism, mechanics, sound, simple machines, and light and optics.