Projects Funded

Through our annual fundraiser, Helping Education through Art, or HEART, as well as generous contributions from friends of RMMS, the Foundation has supported approximately ten projects annually. Since 1998 these grants have totaled close to two-hundred thousand dollars.

Thousands of dollars are granted annually to support a variety of supplemental educational programs, experiences and materials.  A sample of these funded projects includes:

• Visiting artists and authors
• Sponsorship of field trips
• Publication of Inkspillers, the school's literary magazine
• Publication of the yearbook
• Multicultural assemblies
• Faculty sponsorship at national conferences
• Acquisition of specialized reading programs
• Professional storytelling
• Mystic Aquarium hands-on workshops
• Publication of a bilingual songbook
• Nature's Classroom scholarships
• Ukuleles for the Music Program
• National Circus Program
• Circus equipment for P.E.
• International Dance Troupes
• Musical Masterworks performances
• Purchase of digital cameras
• Funding of all-school health fair
• Multicultural traveling photo exhibit
• Poetry In Motion Event
• 20th Anniversary School Celebration
• Save the Earth (STEC) club activities
• Subscriptions to Spanish magazines
• Garde Theatre performance scholarships
• Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center environmental programs
• Visiting Bird Rescue and Rehabilitation Programs
• Online school reading subscriptions