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Academy of Columbia Foundation

Established as a donor-advised fund with Central Carolina Community Foundation in 2001, the Academy of Columbia Foundation has identified a list of potential partners to enhance and improve the educational opportunities that target children and families in Richland School District One. The grants from this fund are awarded to those partner organizations who are invited to participate in the proposal process.

Letters announcing available grants are sent to potential partners in January each year. If you have any questions contact Veronica L. Pinkett-Barber, Program Officer, at 803.254.5601 x331 or veronica@yourfoundation.org.

2011 Grantees

Sandhills School - $11,750     
Sandhills School is partnering with Richland One School District to provide ten teachers with scholarships for Orton-Gillingham training in June. These ten teachers will be trained in the associate level of Orton-Gillingham, learning the basics of the Orton-Gillingham approach. The 60-hour course will cover teaching techniques that are language-based, multisensory, structured, sequential, cognitive and flexible. 

Sandhills School - $2,000
Sandhills will provide students with "Why America Is Free" curriculum, created by the nonprofit, Values Through History. The multi-week curriculum is a hands on learning experience in which students explore the 18th century and learn about the events and heroes of the American Revolution as well as the principles upon which America was founded.

Tutor Eau Claire - $15,000
Tutor Eau Claire (TEC) is running a two-part community literacy project. Through the ongoing program TEC Tutorial, Orton-Gillingham tutors continue to provide high quality, year-round reading intervention for up to 10 low-income, school-age children and teens. Tutor Eau Claire's new Preschool Phonemic Awareness program, in collaboration with Success by Six, helps daycare operators prepare preschoolers for kindergarten. Two TEC tutors will provide phonemic awareness activities for children attending small Eau Claire daycare centers.