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Recent Awarded Grants

2024-25 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.

$124,225 in grants for Morris School District students and staff were approved during the 2024-2025 school year:

Initiatives for Students, Teachers & Schools

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

  • Project Graduation Support – $200

    Support for Morristown High School’s All-Night Graduation Party fundraiser.

  • Reading Readiness: Preschooler-Parent Shared Reading – $5,420

    Reading Readiness: Preschooler-Parent Shared Reading – $5,420A monthly bilingual book club for preschoolers and their parents.

  • A Laughing Together Workshop by Wellness Together to help teachers understand how comedy can be a useful tool in the classroom.

  • An author talk, visit and a signed book for all second graders from The Very Impatient Caterpillar author/illustrator Ross Burach.

  • Fifth-Grade Author Visit - $4,000
    Fifth-Grade Author Visit - $4,000

    An author talk, visit and signed books from New York Times bestselling author John Patrick Green (the InvestiGATORS series) for all 5th-grade students.

  • Senior Signs for all Graduating 8th Graders and High School Seniors - $5,000
    Senior Signs for all Graduating 8th Graders and High School Seniors - $5,000

    To recognize our students’ success.

  • Screen for the 6th grade wing at Frelinghuysen Middle School – $990

    For the display of real-time updates, announcements, event schedules, news, important messages, and SEL efforts.

  • Sixth Grade Academy Planners – $2,500
    Sixth Grade Academy Planners – $2,500

    Planners to help the Frelinghuysen Middle School 6th grade class improve executive function skills, specifically organization and time management.

  • Superintendent Fellowship Table Events – $3,000

    A morning tea appreciation event for all Morris School District Kindergarten teachers to connect with colleagues and a June retreat for Morris School District Administrators.

  • Tutoring at Frelinghuysen Middle School – $3,600
    Tutoring at Frelinghuysen Middle School – $3,600

    Funding for the after-school math and language arts tutoring program.

  • A year-long, school-wide initiative designed to highlight the new Social Studies curriculum through music, art, physical education, social studies, and reading.

  • To replace existing unplayable horns for the Morristown High School Marching Band.