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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Our Scholars & Donors
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.
The Impact Teaching Grant gave me the resources to bring hands-on science experiments to my classroom. My students are more engaged than ever!
The continuing education scholarship helped me complete my degree while working full-time. I'm now the first college graduate in my family.
Program Highlights
From Garden to Table
"It was the best feeling when we saw the excitement and pride on the students faces both when they saw their plants germinate and grow and then again when we were able to harvest and use the ingredients in our end of year salad and salsa. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to purchase items to help further the learning and life skills of our most impacted students."
Hood River Valley High 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
Spanish Books for Bilingual Literacy
With the help of the HRCEF Impact Teaching Grant the Mid Valley Elementary bilingual program at second grade was able to give Spanish literacy equal footing to English literacy in our classroom. We now have access to quality literature in Spanish that engages and motivates students to read. … Motivation to read engaging and fun books in Spanish is much higher than last year simply do to access.
Mid Valley Elementary
