This is what FRIENDS is all about... Alumni volunteers spend months planning the weekend of fundraising events...
Staff and Faculty at NWC submit proposals for basics and enhancements to educate our future at NWC...
Those needs often exceed monies raised and the Grant Committee must make some very difficult decisions each year. The Grant Committee meets, visits the school, phones and emails teachers, checks on orders and investigates the best deal they can find. They calculate and recalculate to do their very best to spend the funds raised by so many FRIENDS of NWC in the most equitable way possible.
Staff and Faculty at NWC submit proposals for basics and enhancements to educate our future at NWC...
Those needs often exceed monies raised and the Grant Committee must make some very difficult decisions each year. The Grant Committee meets, visits the school, phones and emails teachers, checks on orders and investigates the best deal they can find. They calculate and recalculate to do their very best to spend the funds raised by so many FRIENDS of NWC in the most equitable way possible.
Funded Grants for 2010-2011
| 4,290.00 1,275.00 14,500.00 | Shoes & bags girls BB Softball fence Irrigation system for baseball field | |
| Athletics | 20,065.00 | |
| 2,695.00 | Greenhouse components | |
| Culinary Arts | 2,695.00 | |
| 3,300.00 | Purchase of computer parts to build PCs | |
| Computer Repair/Technology | 3,300.00 | |
| 1,000.00 638.00 | Component parts for building robot Camera | |
| Robotics | 1,638.00 | |
| 2,719.00 5,415.00 | Specimens for dissection Lab equipment | |
| Science | 8,134.00 | |
| 2,460.00 | Supplemental books | |
| History | 2,460.00 | |
| | 1,925.00 4,690.00 1,600.00 3,300.00 | Poms, tights, leotards for dance/pom squad Portable PA system Custom Performance Guitar Keyboards & piano tuning |
| Music | 11,515.00 | |
| 750.00 | Cart & wedging board | |
| Ceramics | 750.00 | |
| 680.00 | Bus expenses for college visits | |
| College Career | 680.00 | |
| 330.00 | Bus expenses to History Center | |
| Family & Consumer Science | 330.00 | |
| 606.00 636.00 636.00 | Color printer & ink Lease of copier for counseling office Lease of copier for registrar office | |
| Administration/Office | 1,878.00 | |
| TOTAL | $53,445.00 |
After five annual fundraising events, FRIENDS has:
| • Given approximately $275,000 directly in grants to NWC for programs and equipment. • Created an endowment at The Communities Foundation of Oklahoma to benefit the future of NWC. • Built a strong alliance and supportive relationship with the principal, the dedicated staff and faculty at NWC and the Oklahoma City School Board. • Started a Capital Campaign to create a state-of-the-art Performing Arts Theatre at NWC in conjunction with MAPS for Kids renovations underway at this time. |