Kelso Public Schools Foundation

Kelso Public Schools Foundation’s Grant Program supports programs and innovative classroom activities which benefit a substantial segment of students for which public resources are insufficient!  All funds raised through Give More 24! will support the Grant Program.  

Examples of Grant projects:

• Social Emotional Learning Center Supplies: Games, Puzzles, Squishy Balls, Stress Balls, Thera Putty, etc.: Elementary School
• Fitness Finder supplies: PE classes and Running Club, Elementary School
• Transportation to attend SW Washington Symphony’s Children’s Concerts, Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts, District wide, all 5th grade students
• Robotics for Elementary School students to learn coding and solve problems
• Books: District wide, multiple classrooms and grade levels
• Scholastic Magazines: District wide, multiple classrooms and grade levels
• Games: Middle School Math; Elementary School multilingual students
• "Cooking and Sewing for Real Life", middle school program, "hands on" experience: hand/machine sewing, cooking, reading/changing recipes, shopping, etc.
• Adaptive Bike: Tricycle to be used by Special Education secondary students for PE, track practice and track meets
• Airbrushing for Artists: KHS 2-D art students and ceramic students; airbrushes for drawing/painting and airbrush gun designed for ceramic glaze
• Lunch Bunch Games and Book Making: Kelso Virtual Academy: monthly meeting for students, staff, families and student leaders
• Assist with High School student fees: School clubs, Class uniforms: Fire, Police & Health Science classes, college applications, tech school entrance exams, SAT/ACT, AP exams
• Additional Grants listed on the Foundation website

 Investing Today in the Interest of Student Success Tomorrow!

 Visit the Kelso Public Schools Foundation website, for a complete list of Grants and Scholarships that the Foundation has awarded. www.kelsokidz.org