Apply for a Mini-grant
Next deadline is February 1, 2012.

Find the attachment below, fill it in and submit your grant application electronically by emailing it to president@fabgithaca.org. Read below about some of the funded projects and contact us with your ideas. As a part of the application form, you will FAQ page. This page will give you a sense of some of the often asked questions and the focus of this grant. Your application can also be previewed for further feedback before it is submitted.

IPEI also has grants available through the Red and Gold Grant, the Teacher Grant and the Community Collaboration Grant. Go to www.ipei.org or click on the IPEI logo on the left.

FABG's Mini-grants provide support to teachers for projects and initiatives ranging from choral festivals to funding an accompanist for the CD on the left, produced at Belle Sherman Elementary School, 2008.

Fall 2010 FABG awarded the Sunflower Room, a kindergarten and first grade classroom, another Mini-grant to support production of their second CD featuring songs of different cultures. To date the students have learned seven songs including: Japanese, English, Karen/Burmese, and German. Listen to the Swiss/German song

Applications for Mini-grants are accepted in the fall and spring of the school year. All teachers in the Ithaca City School System are eligible to apply. Applications are based on the following criteria:

• Improves and expands learning opportunities
• Reaches a large number of children or provides an in-depth experience
• Focuses on enhancing classroom curriculum
• Supports fine and performing arts needs
• Supports but does not supplant district responsibilities
• Addresses underserved - arts area or students
• (Instrument needs should be directed to the District Music Liaison or the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum.)

Contact us to discuss your idea or if you have questions. We encourage you to apply.

Postmarked deadlines for grant applications:

• October 30/fall semester
• Feb 1/spring semester

Spring 11 Mini-grants

$500 Trout in the Classroom Scientific Illustration Project

Belle Sherman Elementary and South Hill Elementary, visual art, Jayne Port

$825 Photography and book making with guest author/poet/photographer Charles R. Smith

Beverly J. Martin Elementary, visual art/creative writing, Paul Long

$600 Art projects and visits to Abovoagogo Studio and Stiller Zussman with autism classroom

Beverly J. Martin Elementary, visual art, Nicole Dauria

$600 HIP Arts Residency Assessment: literacy project using theater to promote learning

Caroline Elementary, theater/literacy, Sharon Nelson

$400 Ithaca College Steel Band and Jorge Cuevas Latin Percussion - all school performance & workshop

Enfield Elementary, music and integrated into classroom study of Latin America, Christine Finnigan

$500 MLK Build Project with visiting artist Robert Shetterly, focus: Americans Who Tell the Truth paintings

Lehman Alternative Community School, visual art, student Hannah Utter and principal Joe Greenberg

$150 Shakespeare in the Basement

Kevin Hilgartner, student director

Fall 10 Mini-grants

Mariachi Band Rehearsal, Belle Sherman Elementary

$500 Mariachi Music Program and three guitars

Belle Sherman Elementary, music, Cindy Daly

$300 Songs of the Sunflower Room, CD of songs from different cultures, support for John Simon

Belle Sherman Elementary, music, Randi Beckman

$500 Dance and Love Those Letters, language arts and creative movement initiative with Lisa Tsetse

Beverly J. Martin Elementary, dance/literacy, Nancy Siegele

$500 25 Half size violins

Beverly J. Martin Elementary, music, Pat Dolson and Aaron Buck

$500 Literacy project using theater to promote comprehension, inference and conclusions

Caroline Elementary, theater/literacy, Sharon Nelson

$500 Dance and Love Those Letters, language arts and creative movement initiative with Lisa Tsetse

Fall Creek Elementary, dance/literacy, Arne van Leuken

$600 Beauty and the Beast Storytellers for grade 3 and whole school performance

Fall Creek Elementary, storytelling/theater, Helen Ann Yunis/Karen Keller

$250 Hangar Theatre production of “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie”

Enfield Elementary, theater, Christine Finnigan

$500 Traditional Celtic Ensemble, with Max Buckholdz visiting artist

DeWitt Middle School, music, Aaron Buck

$700 Courtyard design project with landscape designer Mary Zebell

Lehman Alternative Community School, art, Gary Bercow

$450 Art journals published for curricular use

Ithaca High School, art, Judy Cogan

2010-11 Program Fund - Drama Programs

$350 Ithaca High Drama Club
$200 LACS Drama Middle and High School
$100 Dewitt Middle School Drama Club
$100 Boynton Middle School Drama Club

Spring 10 Mini-grants

$500 Belle Sherman Elementary, art, Sarah Locke

Visiting artist Annemarie Zwack and collaboration on public art mural, Watershed Wall

$650 Enfield Elementary, music/theatre, Christine Finnigan

Mrs. McPuppet workshops and performances with grade 2 and entire school

$500 Enfield Elementary, theater/creative movement, Doug Albertsman

Hilby performance and circus skills workshops

$600 Fall Creek Elementary, music, Louise Yavelow

Ukulele workshops with fifth graders and performance with James Hill

$500 Fall Creek Elementary, music/theater/art/other, Ellen Rowe

Mrs. McPuppet working with Kindergarteners on Kindness Theme

$500 Fall Creek Elementary, theatre, Chris Bell and Abigail Bokaer

Production costs for two plays by the first grades: “Olive the Amazing Circus Dog” and “Charlotte’s Web”

$500 Northeast Elementary, music and literacy, Carol Cedarholm

Greg McQuade compositions for Alphabet/literacy DVD

$40 Lehman Alternative Community School, art, Ira Raboisi

Japanese arts and architecture with Mark Keane, “House of Tea and Empathy”

$300 Lehman Alternative Community School, music, Shannon Cockbill

Support for Band and Orchestra experience and trip

$270 Ithaca High School, art, Judy Cogan

Posters and DVDs to support new digital photography curriculum

$310 Ithaca High School, art, Carol Spence

Visiting artist Katrina Morse to support banner project for the Reading Partnership

$600 Ithaca High School, arts/humanities, Lauren McKown

Field trip to Cloisters

$573 Ithaca High School, visual art/ceramics, Jocelyn Lutter Carver

Digital camera for department documenting use

Fall 09 Mini-grants

$500 Cayuga Heights Elementary, music, Ross Mizrahi

African drum circle equipment

$500 Enfield Elementary, music and dance, Karla Notarianni

Visiting Musicians/Dancers series

$500 Enfield Elementary, theater, Christine Finnigan

History Performance and IC Steel Band Performance

$600 Fall Creek Elementary, theater/other, Karen Keller and Helen Yunis

Beauty and Beast Storytellers

$500 Boynton Middle School, theater, Chris Carey

Romeo and Juliet performance at CU Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

$400 DeWitt Middle School, theater, Robin Rosoff

Romeo and Juliet performance at CU Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

$100 Lehman Alternative Community Middle School, theater, Sarah Jane Bokaer,

Romeo and Juliet performance at CU Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

$210 Lehman Alternative Community High School

Visiting artist support for Molly Krause

$350 Ithaca High School, visual art, Judy Cogan

Digital camera and supplies for photo class

$200 Ithaca High School, visual art/cultural, Claudia Miettunen

Chinese painting

$140 Ithaca High School, visual art/ceramics, Jocelyn Lutter Carver

Hard drive for department documenting use

Spring 09 Mini-grants

$500 Beverly J. Martin and Fall Creek Elementary, dance, Diana Levy

Movement residency with Lisa Tsetse, literary focus with pre-K

$500 Enfield Elementary, theater, Christine Finnigan

Mrs. McPuppet performance and workshop for PreK-2

$500 Caroline Elementary, music, Sharon Nelson

Samite concert to go with IPEI workshops

$650 Fall Creek Elementary, dance, Carl Williamson

Performance and workshop with PUSH Theatre with all school and grade 5

$320 Belle Sherman Elementary, music, Sharon Nelson

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra outreach visit and concert

$500 Northeast Elementary, music/theater, Cathy Malecki

Hill Brothers concert with wellness theme

$600 Northeast Elementary, theater/music, Margaret Steinacher

Mrs. McPuppet workshop and performance for PreK-2

$280 South Hill Elementary, art, Linda Duttweiler

Study At Workshop

$700 Boynton Middle School, music, Michael Allen

Frank Battisti anniversary concert

$868 Boynton Middle School, art, Donn Carroll

Digital camera for use by all classrooms

$500 Ithaca High School, all arts areas, Moira Lang

Supplies and fee assistance for WISE projects

$540 Ithaca High School, art, Carol Spence

Drying racks for art classes

$540 Ithaca High School, art, Jocelyn Lutter Carver

Drying racks for art classes

Fall 08 Mini-grants

$659 Fall Creek Elementary, theatre/storytelling, Sharon Ossont

Books Out Loud project with fourth graders, recording books and theater training

$600 Fall Creek Elementary, theater/storytelling, Karen Keller

Beauty and the Beast Storytellers

$175 Northeast Elementary, music, Rich Schlenker

Cd player for use in teaching lessons with recorded accompaniment

$500 South Hill and Belle Sherman Elementary, dance, Diana Levy, request $500

Movement residency with Lisa Tsetse, literary focus with pre-K

$300 Beverly J. Martin Elementary, other, Nicole Dauria

Awareness through Movement with primary autism class

$750 Lehman Alternative Community School, music, Shannon Cockbill

Support for guitar building class

$300 Ithaca High School, art/culture, Claudia Miettunen

Visiting artist to Chinese language and culture class, Jim Hardesty

$700 Ithaca High School, art, M. Pasquale-Bowen and L. McKown

Visit to the Cloisters

$700 Ithaca High School, theater, Alexis Lord

Trip to see Hamlet

$584 Ithaca High School, art, Jocelyn Lutter Carver

Electric pottery wheel

$500 Ithaca High School, art, Judy Cogan

Laser jet printer and ink

2008-09 Program Fund - Drama and Choral Festivals

$350 Ithaca High Drama Club
$200 LACS Drama Middle and High School
$100 Dewitt Middle School Drama Club
$100 Boynton Middle School Drama Club
$300 Elementary Choral Festival (DeWitt feeder)

2007-08 Mini-grants