Enhancing education for students in the Hood River County School District
Through our 57 scholarship funds, the Education Foundation has awarded more than $2,500,000 in scholarships to more than 1000 students. The Foundation has also raised and distributed more than $500,000 through its Impact Teaching Programs.
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Thank you for your continued support of the arts in our schools. You have let me be creative with the kids and my program is flourishing because of it.
Thank you so much for this scholarship! I look forward to becoming an elementary educator at Western Oregon University. I hope to return to Hood River and give back to my community.
You are helping me fund my life dream of giving back to the community who raised me!
Program Highlights
Air Quality Monitoring Grant
"Air, like food, water, and shelter, is critical for survival, and yet we rarely think about it due to its "invisible" nature. Additionally, unlike the other essential items mentioned above, we can't really "pick and choose" which air we breathe. It impacts us all. As such, studying air quality is a fantastic lens through which we can engage students in not only learning about the air, but also chemistry, earth and space science, and how we can be engaged citizens."
Hood River Middle School
Arts in Education
The Artist in Residence Program brings visual, performing, literary, and media arts directly into schools, giving students hands-on opportunities to explore creativity and self-expression, all led by professional artists. HRCEF provides grants to ensure all 1st and 3rd grade students in the school district can experience the joy of learning through art.
All Elementary Schools
Music Programs & Instrumental Rentals
Music teaches students skills from motor coordination to memory recall and math, but the cost of renting instruments can be prohibitively expensive for students. HRCEF provides grants to the school district so that all students at Hood River and Wy'East middle schools can learn an instrument, and event participate in the school band.
Hood River & Wy'East Middle School
