2022 Family Mini-Golf Fundraiser - A Huge Success!

May 21, 2022

With over 120 participants and 27 sponsors we are happy to announce that we surpassed our fundraising goal of $10,000 and raised a total of $12,494! Thank you to everyone who participated, including our gracious host Western Mass Family Golf Center and all the businesses who donated raffle items. Because of you we will be able to continue supporting our public schools.

We look forward to our 3rd annual Family Mini-Golf Fundraiser in the spring of 2023!

2021 Trivia Bee - Our most successful ever!

Together we raised $13,860! Thank you to our gracious hosts and zealous advocates of education, State Representative Mindy Domb and Tony Maroulis, our local sponsors and partners, all the businesses who donated prizes for the raffle, and everyone who participated in the 27th Annual Trivia Bee. 

We look forward to resuming our time-honored tradition at the
28th Annual Trivia Bee, the last Thursday in October 2022!   

Amherst Education Foundation Announces Its 2019-20 Excellence Grant Recipients

Completing its 25th year, the Amherst Education Foundation announces its Excellence Grants for the 2019-20 academic year.

Totaling over $27,000.00, AEF’s 2019-2020 Excellence Grants are spread throughout the Amherst Elementary Schools, Leverett Elementary School, the Amherst Regional Middle School, and the Amherst Regional High School.

GREATER LIBRARY ACCESS: READ ALONG LISTENING TITLES FOR STUDENTS
Grantee:
Lani Blechman
Grant Amount: $6954
Schools: Amherst Elementaries, ARMS, ARHS
Description: The purchase of priority access to audiobooks, ebooks, and read along titles through SORA will guarantee students less wait time for popular titles and result in more equitable access to reading materials.

A SENSORY ROOM FOR AMHERST REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
Grantee:
Angela Tor
Grant Amount: $4200
School: ARMS
Description: The creation of a sensory room at ARMS will provide a safe, welcoming space for students with a wide range of neurolgical, behavioral and emotional challenges, as well as trauma and adverse childhood experiences. This will better prepare students for learning and interacting with others, as well as help them develop a sense of awareness about their sensory needs and avoid or de-escalate future crises.

BUILDING A DYNAMIC INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE PROGRAM
Grantee:
Leverett Elementary School
Grant Amount: $9000
School: Leverett Elementary
Description: A comprehensive inquiry-based science program that is vertically aligned through all grades will be developed with new reaching materials, hands-on materials, levelled nonfiction readers, and professional development.

MAKING HISTORY - INCREASING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND SKILLS IN SOCIAL STUDIES BY ENRICHING THE CURRICULUM
Grantee:
Ruth Killough-Hill
Grant Amount: $7000
Schools: Amherst Elementary Schools
Description: 15 educators will attend undoing racism trainings and use what they learn to enrich social studies lessons using alternative histories of marginalized voices and project-based learning activities

AEF Trivia Bee 2017

 

 

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR! 
AEF Trivia Bee! 
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 6:00-9:00pm
ARMS Auditorium

DOORS OPEN AT 5:30pm
for a fun evening that includes over 100 players in costumes, raffle prizes plus refreshments, an audience trivia game and prizes.

 

NEW FOR 2017!
We will have a youth-only Trivia Round before the main competition. Teams of players 14 years of age and younger will answer age-appropriate questions on the way to becoming our first-ever Youth Trivia Bee Champions!

Admission is free and we encourage donations benefiting Amherst Education Foundation and Amherst public schools.

SPONSORSHIPS:
We are looking for businesses to sponsor our teams. Many businesses send their own teams, but you don't have to. We can match your business with a team if you'd like. New for this year are the Kids' Round! We're inviting new sponsors for the kids' round at $250. For the traditional competition rounds we have team sponsorship for $300, Round Sponsors for $600 and Event Underwriter for $1200.  

TEAMS:
If you'd like to play and don't have a sponsor, we can help you out. We can match your team to a sponsor and we can even build a team for you to compete with. Our teams have a lot of fun!

WHO SHOULD COME?
We encourage everyone to join us for the evening. Even if you're not competing, it's a lot of fun to come and watch and you can participate in the fun audience round!! The kids' round is sure to be a fun addition to our night! We hope to see you there.

Ken LeBlond, kenleblond7@gmail.com
Meg Rosa, megrosa78@gmail.com
Trivia Bee Co-Chairs

It was truly a night to remember!

Dear AEF Supporters,

We are still feeling the energy that was in the room on Saturday evening as we gathered together to celebrate Dave Ranen and many of our wonderful ARPS music educators. It was truly a night to remember.

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AEF sends a special thank you to our performers for sharing their immense talent: the ARHS Jazz Combo, ARMS 7th grader Phoenix Ferreira, ARHS sophomore Sophie Schweik, and the incomparable ARHS graduate Michelle Brooks-Thompson.

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                                                                               Michelle Brooks-Thompson

We also thank the following businesses and individuals, whose support of this event made it possible:

Major Partners

Florence Bank
DiBenedetto Electric

Sponsors

Amherst College
Gerry’s Music
UMass Amherst
Hampshire Gazette

Thanks also to:

Amherst Cinema
Amherst Family Chiropractic
Amherst Office Park
Atkins Farm Market
Brenda Moore Miller
Daphne Bye
Encharter Insurance
Green Street Brew
Hampshire Gymnastics
Lumberyard Restaurant
Michelle Brooks-Thompson
Miss Leticia’s Music School
Patricia Szumowski
REMI
Rose Lander
Slapin-Solomon Studios
Thorne’s Guitar
The Toy Box

On Saturday evening, we announced that we had received grant requests for the 2017-2018 academic year totaling more than $80,000.  We were thrilled to raise nearly $8,000 on Saturday night, but we still have a long way to go.  Please consider making a contribution to AEF so that we can continue our important work of bringing programs, equipment, teacher training, and more to your children’s schools.

With deepest appreciation,

Amherst Education Foundation Board of Directors