The Foundation for Portland Public School’s mission is to raise philanthropic support to enhance educational opportunities for present and future students in Portland’s public schools.
FPPS vision is to strengthen schools through community investment.
FPPS Goals are Educational Enrichment, Classroom Innovation & Community Engagement.
2019 Fall Grants Programs
Teacher Equity and Innovation Grants and Culture Club Grants. See application page for additional details, guidance, and requirements. Application Deadline: October 4, 2019.
Please see the 2018-2019 Annual Report from the Foundation for Portland Public Schools
Applications for Maine Audubon Grants are made available in the Spring and due in June
A gift to Riverton School used for books and promotion of literacy.
The Foundation for Portland Public Schools is pleased to announce that audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP has provided a generous gift to Riverton School that will enable the school to purchase books and school supplies through First Book (https://firstbook.org/) for its students to read over the summer.
According to Riverton School Principal Ann Hanna, “KPMG’s generous gift to Riverton will directly support our summer reading program, and promote the importance of reading at home. We were able to use the gift from KPMG to purchase over 900 high-quality children’s books from First Book for our students. We will be giving the books out at our Annual Family Literacy Night on June 6th. All students will receive the gift of books to start or add to an at- home library. We are so grateful to KPMG for their generous support of our students’ literacy skills. Having books at home to read over the summer will help many of our students to continue developing their reading skills.”
“At KPMG, we believe that childhood literacy is a key factor in preparing children for a lifetime of success. It means a great deal to be able to support literacy efforts here in Portland through our KPMG Family for Literacy program,” states Jane Phelan, Manager, KPMG.
This gift directly aligns with the Achievement goal of the Portland Promise, the Portland Public Schools’ strategic plan.
Since 2012, an anonymous donor has generously funded Culture Club-Portland. Through this seven-year partnership, Portland Public Schools’ students have had access to amazing professional arts programming from Portland Stage, Portland Ovations, Portland Symphony Orchestra and Portland Museum of Art – at no cost. The donor’s funding is sunsetting at the end of the 2018-2019 school year.
FPPS, along with PPS leadership, hopes to continue to engage our students with these partner organizations. As a first step, the Foundation for Portland Public Schools will convene a Task Force of interested parents and educators to assess the costs associated with the continuation and possible options for funding.
While it is unlikely that we will see the same level of funding as we have in the past seven years, It’s possible that a task force will be able to identify creative ways to support Portland students’ access to Portland-based professional arts programming.
The first meeting of the Culture Club task force will be July 10th, 2019 at 4:30 pm at the PPS District Office.
