Thanks to a $50,000 grant the Chatham Education Foundation received from the Oak Foundation, Chatham County Schools is test piloting an employee affordable housing program called CHOOSE Chatham.  Working with the Community Home Trust, participating CCS teachers will lease five apartments at The Guild in Chatham Park. These two bedroom,

Each year, the Chatham Education Foundation awards Creative Teaching Grants to Chatham County Schools’ teachers going above and beyond for their students. In the past, CEF has funded projects covering a wide range of educational opportunities from Exceptional Children resources to literacy tools to arts programming to STEM projects to

The Chatham Education Foundation’s (CEF) mission is to engage our community as public school advocates and to raise funds and resources to support innovation and education excellence in the Chatham County Schools. In our continued efforts to accomplish our mission, we are pleased to announce that we awarded almost $10,000

PITTSBORO, NC – The Chatham Education Foundation awarded more than $35,000 in grants and scholarships to Chatham County Schools’ teachers and staff on November 1, 2016. “This year we doubled the dollar value of awards to the teachers of Chatham County Schools, and we are grateful to our individual, corporate

The Chatham Education Foundation (CEF) is thrilled to announce the winners of its 2105 Grants. At this year’s grant ceremony we not only awarded our Creative Teaching Grants but two other opportunities. Thanks to the Duke Energy Foundation, this year we were able to add one additional grant for teachers,

How Wheelchair Accessible Gardens are Bringing Students Together Marguerite Fields, of Jordan Matthews High School, is one of our grant recipients who used the funds generously contributed by our donors to purchase a handicap accessible Rolling Garden Kit for her the school.  This was a multi-class project.  The carpentry students

The Chatham Education Foundation (CEF) is thrilled to announce the winners of its 2014 Creative Teaching Grants. Each of these projects exemplifies the creativity, professionalism and dedication of Chatham County Schools’ teachers. This year the Chatham Education Foundation supported 12 projects in 8 schools reaching over 1,700 students. The variety

March 2013 Students in Julie Goodberlet’s science class at Margaret Pollard Middle School conducting experiments with state of the art Venier Labquest equipment funded with a 2012 grant obtained by CEF from the Triangle Community Foundation’s program and a previous Progress Energy Foundation grant.   All middle grades science teachers in