| Betterment Fund Priorities
Exhibit A: Education
- Leadership, development and
advancement of major educational policy initiatives on a state-wide
basis: An example
of a funded leadership initiative is the Betterment Fund’s
support for an “Early College” program through the Maine Community
College System. Other examples include support for aspects
of the State’s Compact for Higher Education, the Mitchell
Institute and adult education programs leading to individuals
having greater economic self-sufficiency.
- Educational
Quality: We may fund broad-based projects to improve
the quality of K-12 public education, such as greater evaluation
capacity for Job’s for Maine’s Graduates.
- Arts education: We are primarily
interested in making grants that have a regional or state-wide focus
and that have the potential of improving the overall landscape for
arts education in Maine. One current example is a recent grant
to the Maine Alliance for Arts Education to initiate a broad
assessment of arts education across the State.
- College scholarships for
Maine students in Maine colleges and universities: We fund scholarships through
particular educational institutions rather than making awards directly
to individuals. Such scholarship funding will be initiated by the
trustees rather than in response to grant requests.
Proposals that are not
as likely to be funded include local school programs, agencies which
seek to provide programming that is supplementary to the curricula of
established schools and colleges, or capital construction projects for
particular schools.
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