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Education foundation tells board it has $70,000 to award this cycle after $124,000 in requests
Summary
Steve Baloff, president of the Schenectady City School District Education Foundation, told the board the foundation has awarded about $600,000 in classroom grants since 1996 and will distribute $70,000 this cycle while requests totaled roughly $124,000; the foundation asked for closer coordination with district staff on grant alignment.
Steve Baloff, president of the Schenectady City School District Education Foundation, told the school board the nonprofit’s work is focused solely on students in the Schenectady City School District and on sustaining grants and programming that the district otherwise would not fund. “We provide funding for the enhancement of learning opportunities not otherwise available to the students of Schenectady Public Schools,” Baloff said.
Baloff said the foundation has given away about $600,000 in grants since its founding and that this year’s grant pool totals $70,000 while requests reached about $124,000, so the board of the foundation had to decline roughly $54,000…
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