The Downingtown Community Education Foundation (Foundation) was founded to identify, promote, and support innovative educational initiatives for the students in the Downingtown Area School District (DASD) and to expand and enrich public education.

The Foundation will support initiatives sponsored by teachers, administrators, and other DASD personnel in accordance with the terms of this program.  Applications will be reviewed twice a year, once in the fall and another in late spring. 

PROPOSAL DUE DATES are the last Friday in October; and last Friday in March.  Awards will be announced in December and May.  Applications submitted after these dates will not be considered.

ELIGIBLE PROPOSALS: Programs, projects, services and/or other activities that emphasize new approaches to teaching. Competitive projects will be imaginative and innovative. (Ineligible requests include standard school supplies and equipment, field trips, other standard curriculum items, or replication/duplication of prior grants.  DCEF grants will not fund salaries of teachers, administrators, or personnel)

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Teachers, administrators and other school personnel of DASD.

EVALUATION & SELECTION CRITERIA: Applicants will be reviewed on a competitive basis and scored based on the answers to the application's questions. 

As of September 2019 over $135,000 has been awarded to teachers with innovative ideas to support learning in DASD. We want yours to be the next! If you would like additional insights and assistance in completing your grant application, please contact Jeff Singleton (jsingleton@dasd.org)

 

In addition to our Innovation Grants, the James Lee and Annanette Harper Family Foundation has gifted DCEF with $10,000 to be awarded for grants for projects in the area of Arts, Culture and Humanities. Using form, sound, color, language and movement, artists help us interpret the past, understand the present and envision a better future. We are looking for grant requests from teachers that help students, particularly the invisible students, feel empowered over their own lives - forming creative, independent, productive citizens of the world. We encourage teachers from different disciplines to collaborate to submit projects.