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Needham Education Foundation Awards $46,660 in Spring Grants

The Needham Education Foundation has awarded Spring Grants for ten innovative programs, including a speaker series for parents on the theme of fostering resiliency in children. Three of the grants fund innovative teacher training programs. In all, grants worth $46,660...

NEF Announces Recipients of 2013-2014 Large Grant Awards

The Needham Education Foundation (NEF) announced the recipients of its 2013-2014 Large Grants. Three grants totaling over $40,000 were awarded. Two grants support iPad pilot programs at Newman and Hillside Elementary Schools. The third grant supports an...

Fall 2013 Small Grants Announced

We’re pleased to announce that the NEF awarded over $60,000 in funding to 21 grant applicants this fall. Through these grants, Needham students are learning from visiting authors and dancers in residence, a program to teach high school students to create stained glass...

History Repeats Itself – Thanks to NHS Class of ‘63!

Members of the Needham High class of 1963 celebrated their 50th reunion with a donation of $3,063 to the Needham Education Foundation. The NEF was founded by members of the class of 1939 who established the NEF with $3000 from their 50th reunion fund. Following in...

NEF Announces Pilot of Multischool Grants and Express Grants

Multi-School Grants The purpose of the multi-school grant is to facilitate grant proposal cooperation between and among Needham public schools (particularly elementary schools) and to ensure that the $5,000 small grant award limit does not create an impediment to that...

NEF Awards Nearly $36,000 in Spring Grants

Students in Needham schools will benefit from 12 grants worth nearly $36,000 in the spring cycle of grants awarded by the Needham Education Foundation.  Many of this season’s grants are notable for teaching academic concepts through hands-on activities and...