Grant Category: Informal Education
Little Schoolhouse Childcare
Greenville, ME
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2025
Grant category: Informal Education
$20,000 to fund the creation of a new natural playscape area for the Little School Childcare building.
Little Schoolhouse Childcare (LSC) was founded in 2022 in partnership with the Town of Greenville, ME, to meet the community’s need for quality childcare. Its mission is to provide licensed care and enriching learning experiences in a safe and nurturing environment that supports children’s social, emotional, creative, intellectual, and physical development.
Dancing Classrooms
New York, NY
Amount granted: $25,000
Grant year: 2022
Grant category: Informal Education
$25,000 to support Dancing Classrooms expansion of its Classroom Academy.
Dancing Classrooms’ (DC) mission is to cultivate essential life skills in children through the joyful art and practice of social dance. It fosters brave spaces in which children take creative and social-emotional risks while developing respect and cultural competence. Through standards-based, in-school residencies and out of school programs, DC uses the vocabulary of social and partner dance to support the next generation of compassionate global citizens.