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Recent Awarded Grants

2025-26 Grants

The Morris Educational Foundation funds projects in the Morris School District that create new models for learning, enrich the curriculum, promote self-esteem, enhance and expand enrichment opportunities, and help teachers grow professionally. Our goal is to ensure the highest level of educational innovation supporting students and staff in all 10 schools in a partnership of lifelong learning.

$194,108 in grants for Morris School District students and staff were approved during the 2025-2026 school year.

Initiatives for Students, Teachers & Schools

Please click the grant titles below in blue to view more about its impact.

  • Advanced Telephoto Sport Lens - $5,798
    Advanced Telephoto Sport Lens - $5,798

    Advanced Telephoto Sport Lens – Advanced telephoto sport lenses for fast action sports/event photography in the Morristown High School Photography program.

  • Artisan Academy - $50,000

    Artisan Academy – A pathway at Morristown High School providing student creators with the skills, resources, and mentoring support to create marketable products.

  • Bringing Learning to Life – $7,050

    Materials to support active and developmentally appropriate dramatic play learning experiences in Woodland School kindergarten classrooms.

  • Chemistry Equipment – $5,000
    Chemistry Equipment – $5,000

    Support for cutting-edge materials to enhance chemistry education at Morristown High School.

  • A two-day “learn through play” celebration of our country’s 250th birthday for the students of Normandy Park School.

  • A grant for each of the 10 Morris School District schools to support cultural arts programming.

  • Morris School District bilingual kindergarten classes get hands-on cooking experience while developing their social and instructional language skills.

  • Eighth Grade Trip Financial Assistance – $5,100
    Eighth Grade Trip Financial Assistance – $5,100

    Support for 15 Frelinghuysen Middle School students on free or reduced lunch to attend the 8th-grade trip to New York City.

  • Exploring Identity: La Gringa at Repertorio Español – $1,320

    A Spanish-language and cultural immersive experience for Morristown High School students in Latinx History, Heritage Spanish 2, and Spanish 5 Honors.

  • Footprints – $1,700
    Footprints – $1,700

    Connecting Frelinghuysen Middle School students and Hillcrest Elementary School kindergarten students to foster mentorship and academic skill-building.

  • FMS Falcon Flight Crew Peer Leader Program – $3,000
    FMS Falcon Flight Crew Peer Leader Program – $3,000

    Training to cultivate student leadership to support 6th graders during their critical transition into middle school.

  • Living Voices: Within the Silence – $5,000
    Living Voices: Within the Silence – $5,000

    Performance combined with archival film transforms the history of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans into a moving, personal journey for Morristown High School US History 1 and 2 students.