Grants - Education Foundation of Wauwatosa (EFW)

Welcome to the Education Foundation of Wauwatosa (EFW)

Apply for a Grant
Be sure to check the EFW website for deadlines for submitting grant applications. In addition to the grant application, the foundation has guidelines and tips which you may find helpful for the application process. Both forms can be downloaded here.

Tips for Writing an EFW Grant

Guidelines for an EFW Grant

EFW Grant Application (pdf)

EFW Grant Application (Word)

Since 1990, the Education Foundation of Wauwatosa (EFW) has awarded more than $345,000 in grants. Every school in the district has benefited from the grants given.

EFW Grants for 2009-2010 = $30,070

Benchmark Books for Middle School

Readers............................................... Longfellow

The Bridge from Listening to Learning.......... Jefferson

Digital Media and Learning: Exploring the Social

Sciences Through Strategy-based Gaming

Systems....................................................... West

Fit to the Core!......................................... Underwood

From Fiction to Nonfiction.......................... Roosevelt

Have a BALL Reading at Home.................... Jefferson

Increasing Excitement for Nonfiction

Reading............................................... Longfellow

Interactive Read Aloud.................................... Lincoln

Kindergarten Scientists: Research Comes to Life

Through Play...................................... Washington

Ladies and Gentlemen!................................. McKinley

Microscopes: A Close-up View to the

World................................................. Washington

Paw Pride—Whitman Resource Phase II......... Whitman

The Power of Words................................. Underwood

Recipe for Success: Young Chefs Academy Washington

Science on the Go!: Using Portable Data Collection

to Enhance Student Lab Experiences............. East

Stepping Out Strong.......................................... West

World Drumming at Whitman......................... Whitman

EFW Grants for 2008-2009 = $36,389

Bringing Up Baby....................................... East/West

Celebrate Diversity: Bringing the World

Into the Classroom.............................. Washington

CPS for Improved Achievement.......................... East

Currency Currently.............................................. East

Extra, Extra—Read and Write All

All About It!......................................... Underwood

Get Hooked on a Series and Grow!

Eisenhower/Jefferson/Lincoln/Madison/McKinley/

Underwood/Wilson/Washington

The Idea Lab............................................. Longfellow

I’m a Reader!.............................................. Roosevelt

Let’s Move.................................. Longfellow/Whitman

Lincoln Word Wizards: Developing Students’ Aware-

ness, Interest and Curiosity About Words.... Lincoln

Mush! On the Trail to Learning Using the

Iditarod Dog Sled Race....................... Washington

Nonfiction Reading in the Classroom......... Longfellow

smART Art: The Power of Paint............... Washington

Taking Flight With Technology.......................... Wilson

We Both Read: An Interactive Adventure

in Reading............................................. Jefferson

Whitman Resource Program.......................... Whitman

Wii All Learn Together: Using Nintendo Wii to

Support Students with Disabilities........ Underwood

Past Grants
Since 1992, EFW has awarded more than $350,000 in grant money, which has been distributed throughout all the schools in the Wauwatosa School District. For year-by-year informaton on grants awarded, click on the link below.

Yearly EFW Grant Information

A student at McKinley Elementary combines "Music and Math" with a grant written by Susan Merriman, Tim Patten and Pam Wirtz.

A boy in Ms. Kannass' junior kindergarten room dresses in a Kimono - part of the Celebrate Diversity: Bringing the World into the Classroom grant.

The students who participated in the Bringing Up Baby grant received hands on parenting experiences.