Awarded NAEF Grants
Over $500,000
Cash Donations toward original construction cost of the Benvenuti Performing Arts Center
Over $100,000
Annual commitment of $18,000/year for ongoing expenses to maintain and support the Benvenuti Performing Arts Center through 2018
Over $10,000
- $25,000 – General travel expenses to support student and teacher ambassadors for One Voice project trip to China
- $22,000 – Microphone and sound equipment at the Benvenuti Performing Arts Center
- $11,000 – Professional development for teachers
- $10,500 – Matching high school fundraising effort for outdoor LED display and sign
- $10,000 – New seating for high school performance space
Under $10,000
$9,000 – For K-12 public schools
$8,450 – Local K-5 school supplies and equipment (a matching grant)
$7,000 – A shade structure for an elementary school playground
$6,000 – Local baseball and soccer field recovery work
$6,000 – Purchase of visual art desks and stools (a matching grant)
$5,000 – Pottery wheels and classroom electrical retrofitting for high school visual arts department
$4,000 – Production and installment of BPAC promotional banners along Del Paso Road
$3,000 – Funding student participation in the American Theater Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland
$2,000 – Funding for new performance risers at Star Academy
$2,000 – Support of local high school production of Grease (matching grant)
$1,500 – Biology program at ECA
$1,500 – Ballet Barre at PACT
$1,450 – Supporting “Source,” an original multi-media art, student production
$1,325 – Music Department’s equipment needs (matching grant)
$1,200 – Theater Arts Department Puppeteering Build and Manipulation Master Classes
$1,100 – Art Department FormBox Vacuum Former
$1,088 – Backdrop for PFAA’s musical production of Hairspray
$1,063 – PFAA Art Department Ceramics Room
$1,000 – PFAA Visual Art Department Breaking and Graffiti workshops
$1,000 – Professional development software
$1,000 – Performing Arts Academy dance department storage
$1,000 – Grades K-5 general art expenditures
$1,000 – PFAA and Leading Edge Math Department manipulatives
$900 – iPads for Dance Department
$750 – General art supplies to support middle school
$700 – Support travel for teacher to the Dirksen Congressional Center Summer Institute
$500 – Senior Project Loanable Dance Shoes
$450 – Portable drying rack for middle school
$450 – Senior Project Ballet mosaic murals on PFAA campus
$350 – P.E. equipment for K-12 school recess
$300 – Senior Project Book Drive
