Total Awarded 2003-2025
$447,703.81
Grants are awarded from the Arts and Humanities Fund (A&H) or the Alexander White Fund (White).
2024-2025
| Project | Grant Awarded A&H | Grant Awarded White |
| Third Grade Theatre Trips | $1,350 | |
| Put Your Feet on the Floor and Sit Up Straight! Oh, If Only It Were That Easy... | $900 | |
| MED School Bus Safety | $450 | |
| Chatham Anglers (Middle School Fishing Club) | | $1,500 |
| Fifth Grade MiSci Museum Field Trip | | $883.5 |
| Activities with Buddies | $1,007 | |
| "Robin of Sherwood" Play at Sage | $550 | |
| Fifth Grade Field Trip to Russell Sage Theater Institute performance of "Tuck Everlasting" | $600 | |
| Author Visit | $900 | |
| English 11 Field Trip to Broadway | $4,257 | |
| The Sailing Classroom | $1,750 | |
| CHS Robotics | | $2,500 |
| Trip to See the Valley Cats | $2,640 | |
| M.E.D. Care Closet | $1,000 | |
| Bindlestiff's Cirkus After School at Morris Memorial School Year 2024-25 | $2,500 | |
| Chatham HS Literary & Art Magazine | $785 | |
| Compostion for Choir | $1,000 | |
| TOTAL: | $19,689 | $4,883.5 |
2023-2024
| Project | Grant Awarded A&H | Grant Awarded White |
Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School at Morris
Memorial | $2,500 | |
| CMS Writer’s Workshop | $2,000 | |
| Recording Technology Equipment for Music Tech Class, CHS Music Dept, and CHS Musical | $1,314 | |
| Drone for Science High School Classes | | $535 |
| Chew on the Possibilities | | $2,000 |
| Infrared Camera for Chatham School District Science Department | | $485 |
| Knitting Club | $200 | |
| Nature's Classroom Day Program | $2,500 | |
| Bowling with Buddies | $836 | |
| Chatham Middle School First Tech Challenge Robotics Club | | $2,500 |
| Columbia County Youth Theatre performs "Could You Hug A Cactus" | $1,500 | |
| My Side of the Forest | $2,500 | |
| Sideways Studio | $1,500 | |
| Sixth Grade 3D Design and Printing | | $1,400 |
| Chatham HS Literary & Art Magazine | $835 | |
| TOTAL: | $15,685 | $6,920 |
2022-2023
| Project | Grant Awarded A&H | Grant Awarded White |
| TOTAL: | $19,960 | $9,211 |
| Artemis Robotics | $3,000 | |
Bindlestiff's Cirkus After School/Morris
Memorial | | $2,500 |
Bussing for Field Trip to NYC Broadway to
see "Phantom of the Opera" | $1,700 | |
| Chamber Theater Group - Encore! Performance of Edgar Allen Poe | $1,600 | |
| Chatham Central School StoryWalk® | $1,000 | |
| Chatham HS Literary & Art Magazine | $800 | |
| CHS Pickleball Club | $1,000 | |
| Crosswalk Art | $500 | |
| Homespun Dance Residency | $1,850 | |
| Memorial Day Outfits | $1,500 | |
| Middle and High School Combined Life Skills Program | | $2,016 |
| MIDI Keyboard for Music Theory | $1,190 | |
| My Side of the Forest | | $2,500 |
| Nature's Classroom | $2,000 | |
| Pre-AP English Field Trip Transportation | $1,450 | |
| Science Links Class Saltwater Aquarium (continued) | $1,000 | |
| SEL Curriculum Project | $750 | |
| Sew Much Fun | $620 | |
| SkyDome Planetarium | | $1,495 |
| STEM in the Arts | | $700 |
2021-2022
| Project | Grant Awarded A&H | Grant Awarded White |
| eSports Experiment for Engagement | $1,510 | |
Sweethearts and Heroes: Teaching
Human Skills to Students, Both
Digitally and In School | $2,500 | |
Project-Based Science Class Saltwater
Aquarium | | $2,500 |
| Clearwater Sloop | | $1,500 |
| CMS Hudson River Science Program | | $2,500 |
| Breakout Education | $476 | |
| Too Good to Waste | $400 | |
| CMS Panther Pride Reading Challenge | $2,000 | |
| Chatham Goes Pro | $959.98 | |
| Bindlestiff's Cirkus After School | $2,500 | |
| High School Ground Work Program | $963.36 | |
| Life Skills Ground Work Program | $1,603.36 | |
| TOTAL: | $12,912.70 | $6,500.00 |
2020-2021
| Project | Grant Awarded A&H | Grant Awarded White |
| Flying Deer/Nature's Week at Chatham | | $2,500 |
| My Side of the Mountain | $2,500 | |
Community Performance of Pan with
MacArthur Fellow Claire Chase; 2021
Summer Theater Institute | $2,500 | |
| Chatham High School Class of 2021 | $9,569 | |
| Nature Week at MED | | $2,500 |
| "A Day in the Life of" | $2,300 | |
| Gizmos for Math/Science 3-12 | | $2,513 |
| Learning and Leading Through a Pandemic | $2,500 | |
| Note: Due to Covid Pandemic some funds were rolled over from 2019/20. | | |
| TOTAL: | $19,369 | $7,513 |
2019-2020
| Project | Grant Awarded A&H | Grant Awarded White |
| Main Street Exhibition | $300 | |
| Panther Paws Community Art Program | $1,250 | |
| Project Trio | $2,000 | |
| Science of Addiction and Recovery | | $1,415 |
| Task Boxes/Therapeutic Riding | $825.80 | |
| What Lifts You Mural Project | $600 | |
| Video History of Chatham | $1,500 | |
| Artemis Robotics | | $2,500 |
| Clearwater Sloop | | $1,500 |
| Tall Tales and Heroes | $950 | |
| Capital Rep | $288 | |
| Guest Speaker Stipends Theater Class | $700 | |
| Life Skills Garden/Mural | | $600 |
| Middle School Film Club | $1,550 | |
| The Point Art and Literary Magazine | $1,000 | |
| Fort Ticonderoga Field Trip | | $2,000 |
| Project Unite | $400 | |
| Note: Due to the Covid Pandemic some projects were postponed or cancelled. | | |
| TOTAL: | $11,363.80 | $8,015.00 |
Code:
CHS Chatham High School, grades 9-12
CMS Chatham Middle School, grades 6-8
MED Mary E. Dardess Elementary School, grades K-5
ESL English as a Second Language, K-12
*unless noted as (White fund) all monies come from Arts & Humanities.
2018-2019
| School | Project | Requested | Granted |
| CMS | An American Revolution | $2,494.35 | $2,494.35* |
| MED | Art in the Library: An Afterschool Program | $1,500.00 | $1,500.00 |
| CHS | Artemis Robotics | $3,000.00 | $2,500.00 |
| CMS | Author Visit - Gordon Korman | $3,000.00 | $2,500.00 |
| CMS | Chatham After School Film Club | $1,550.00 | $1,550.00 |
| MED | Children's Summer Garden | $2,500.00 | $200 |
| CHS | Columbia County Master Class | $2,500.00 | $1,000.00 |
| CHS | Cornell Lab of Ornithology Feeder Watch | $449.54 | $449.54 |
| MED | Homespun Dance Residency | $4,270.00 | $2,500.00 |
| MED | Longhouse Phase II | $2,000.00 | $2,000.00 |
| MED | My Side of the Mountain | $2,500.00 | $2,500.00* |
| CHS | Robinson's Wildlife Lectures | $550.00 | $550.00 |
| CHS | Saving a Species - Wolf Project | $350.00 | $350.00* |
| CHS | Spanish IV & V Trip to Repertorio Español Theater in NYC | $2,500.00 | $2,500.00 |
| CHS | Vivarium Part 2 | $300.00 | $300.00* |
| CHS | Peloris Art and Lit Mag | $1,300.00 | $1,300.00* |
| CHS | Fiction of Wharton and James | $1,950.00 | $1,000.00 |
| | TOTAL: | $25,193.89 |
2017 – 2018
| School | Project | Requested | Granted |
| CMS | Ukuleles for Middle School | $1,000 | $1000 |
| CHS | Art Trip to Metropolitan Museum | $1,395 | $1395 |
| CMS | History Alive – Revolutionary War | $24,97.91 | $2497.91 |
| CHS | Visiting Poet and Artist Millay | $1,500 | $1500 |
| CHS | Artemis Robotics II | $2,000 | $2000 (White) |
| CHS | Clearwater Sloop Science study | $3,000 | $3,000 (White) |
| CMS | Character Education | $2,500 | $2500 (White) |
| MED | Art in the Library | $970 | $970 |
| CHS | Wharton and James | $1950 | (cancelled) |
| MED | Project Rebuild Longhouse Due To Vandalism | | Paid for elsewhere |
| | TOTAL | $17,362.91 |
2015 - 2016
| School | Project | Requested | Granted |
| MED | Homespun Community Dance | $2,385.00 | $1,815.00 |
| CMS | Live Performance “Wizard of Oz” | $800.00 | $800.00 |
| CMS | Third Annual Film Club | $2,500.00 | $2,000.00 |
| MED | Longhouse Project Phase II | $2,500.00 | $2,500.00 (White) |
| CMS | Character Ed Days | $3,500.00 | $1.500.00 |
| CHS | Vermicomposting | $160.00 | $160.00 (White) |
| MED | Art in the Library | $330.00 | $330.00 |
| CHS | Wharton and James | $1,250.00 | $1,250.00 |
| MED | MacHaydn Summer Program | $200.00 | $200.00 |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $3,000.00 | $2,500.00 |
| CHS | Calculus the Musical | $750.00 | $750.00(White) |
| CMS | American Revolution History Day | $1,577.00 | $1,577.00 |
| CHS | Author in the Classroom | $850.00 | $850.00 |
| MED | Empathy Awareness | $2,475.00 | $1,610.00 |
| CHS | Tropical Vivarium | $3,300.00 | $2,500.00 (White) |
| | TOTAL | $20,342.00 |
2014-2015
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| MED | The Longhouse Project | $2,500.00 | $2,500.00 |
| CHS | 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights: Wesley Brown guest speaker | $500.00 | $500.00 |
| CHS | HOBY Youth Leadership | $500.00 | $350.00 (White) |
| CMS | Middle School Mentoring | $800.00 | $800.00 (White) |
| CMS | Character Days | $4,000.00 | $2,850.00 (White) |
| MED/CMS | Art in the Library | $328.00 | $328.00 |
| CHS | Edith Wharton and Henry James | $1,500.00 | $1,500.00 |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $3,000.00 | $2,850.00 |
| CHS | On the Eve of World War II | $500.00 | $500.00 (White) |
| ESL | Norman Rockwell Museum | $334.00 | $104.00 (School pays busing) |
| CHS | Literary Incidents in Life of Slave Girl | $800.00 | $350.00 (School pays busing) |
| CHS | Wolf Conservation Center | $700.00 | $700.00 (White) |
| CMS | Living the Civil War | $1,500.00 | $1,500.00 |
| | TOTAL | $15, 072.00 |
2013-14 Fall Grand Cycle
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CMS | Capital Rep Drama Performance | $1,298 | $1,298 |
| CHS | EBook Program/HS library | $1,491 | $1,491 |
| MED | MacHaydn Theatre Experience/Mackowski | $100 | $100 |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare/Matthews | $3,000 | $3,000 |
| | TOTAL | $5,889 |
2013 Spring Grant Cycle
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CMS | Mentoring Project/Herron | $700 | $700 (White) |
| MED | Theatre Workshop: Industrial Rev. PS/21 | $1,785 | $1,785 |
| CMS | Character Days 2013-14/Hoffman | $3,500 | $3,500.00 (White) |
| CHS | Edith Wharton Project/Kraft | $1,250 | $1,250.00 |
| MED | Web Weavers Mentoring Program/Flying Deer Nature Center | $2,460 | $2,460.00 (White) |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $3,000 | $3,000.00 |
| | TOTAL | $12,695.00 |
2012
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CHS | Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop | $1,479.20 | $1,479.20 |
| MED | Zumbatomic for Kids | $789.66 | $789.66 |
| CMS | Chatham Middle School Mentoring Program | $1,400.00 | $1,400.00 |
| CHS | Project Lead the Way | $2,500.00 | $2,500.00 |
| MED | Fourth Grade Theater Workshop: Book to Stage | $1,650.00 | $1,650.00 |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $2,000.00 | $2,000.00 |
| MED/CMS/CHS | Local Visiting Artist Enrichment Series | $3,353.75 | $3,353.75 |
| CHS | Edith Wharton and Henry James | $1,300.00 | $1,300.00 |
| CHS | Acappella Artist in Resident | $700.00 | $700.00 |
| CHS | World War II: Personal Perspectives | $1,000.00 | $1,000.00 |
| | TOTAL | $16,172.61 |
2011
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CMS | Mentoring Project/Herron | $700 | $700 (White) |
| CMS | Visual Arts/Art Omi Note: Less transportation cost | $2,500 | $1,100 |
| MED | Tall Tales & Heroes/Conte | $500 | $500 |
| MED | From Theatre to Classroom/Botsford | $150 | $150 |
| CHS | Edith Wharton Project/Kraft | $1,300 | $1,300 |
| CMS | Nature Discovery Mentor Program | $1,800 | $1,800 (White) |
| CMS | Storytelling/Roth | $3,150 | $3,150 |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare/Matthews | $2,000 | $2,000 |
| CHS | Europe on the Brink of War 1938/McBride | $1,770 | $1,770 |
| | TOTAL | $12,470 |
2010
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| MED | Whole Brain Summer Project | $160 | $40 |
| CMS | Mentor Project | $600 | $600 |
| CHS | Fiction of Edith Wharton | $1,950 | $1,550 |
| MED | Pre-School Literacy Project | $2,640 | $2,640 (White) |
| MED | Nature’s Classroom | $1,210 | $840 (White) |
| CHS | Chatham Public Art Project | $2,500 | $700 |
| CMS | Service Learning Project | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| CHS | Watercolor Paining Enrichment | $2,180 | $2,180 (White) |
| MED | Today’s Girls & Tomorrow’s Technology | $4,452 | $2,167 (White) |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $2,000 | $2,000 |
| | TOTAL | $16,250 |
2009 Alexander White Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CHS | D Rosenbaum/Model Congress | $5,000 | $3,175 |
| MED | Solaqua Power and Art/Eco Power | S1,500 | $1,500 |
| CMS | Cynthia Herron/Mentor Program | $600 | $600 |
| CMS | Jackie Hoffman/Service Learning | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| | TOTAL | $6,275 |
2009 Arts & Humanities Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CMS | Art Omi/Arts in Education | $3,546 | $2,500 |
| CHS | Columbia Festival Orchestra: All Strings Attached | $4,900 | $2,500 |
| CHS | James Kraft/Wharton & Millay | $3,500 | $2,000 |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival Shakespeare | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| MED | Arts Voyage /Spencertown | $5,000 | $3,000* |
| MED | Michael Stead/Puppet Mania | $1,900 | $1,000 |
| MED | Homespun Residency | $2,310 | $2,200 |
| MED | Voices of the Hudson River | $3,890 | $3,500 |
| | TOTAL | $17,700 |
2008 Alexander White Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CMS | Evolution DVD/John Feldman | $3,250 | $2,000 |
| CHS | American International Congress | $3,090 | $1,500 |
| MED | Interplay Program/Nicole Maney | $3,720 | $3,000 |
| CMS | Mentor Program/Cynthia Herron | $500 | $500 |
| MED | Therapy Service Dog | $410 | $410 |
| CMS | Life Skills Community Living | $500 | $300 |
| MED | Solaqua Eco-Power Program | $3,950 | $2,500 |
| MED | Voices of the Hudson River | $3,000 | $3,000 |
| | TOTAL | $13,210 |
2008 Arts & Humanities
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CHS/CMS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $1,500 | $1,000 |
| CMS | Spring Musical/Theresa Conte | $3,000 | $1,000 |
| CMS | The Mayans/Roth & Herron | $300 | $300 |
| CHS | Writing for News/Costello | $4,050 | $2,000 (contingent upon applicant committing to providing four hours of instruction) |
| CHS/CMS | Technical Theatre/Theresa Conte | $500 | $300 |
| MED | Homespun Dance Residency | $3,650 | $3,000 |
| MED | Arts Voyage/Spencertown | $7,500 | $3,000 |
| | TOTAL | $10,600 |
2007 Alexander White Fund School
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CHS | Lead the Way Engineering Course | $4,500 | $4,500 |
| Kindergarten | Interplay Training | $3,660 | $1356
(balance funded by the Arts & Humanities Fund) |
| | TOTAL | $5,856 |
2007 Arts and Humanities Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CHS/CES | Native American Pottery | $1,247 | $1,200 |
| CES/CMS | Arts Map of the World | $5,000 | $3,500 |
| CHS | Rhythm of Life African Music | $4,611 | $4,000 |
| CHS | Media Literacy | $4,500 | $4,100 |
| CHS | String Fling/Berklee College of Music | $1,070 | $745 |
| CHS | Close Encounters in Chatham | $1,800 | $1,200 |
| CHS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $1,500 | $1,000 |
| CHS | Chatham Intelligentsia Newspaper | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| CES | Voices of the Hudson | $4,900 | $3,500 |
| | TOTAL | $20,745 |
2006 Alexander White Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CHS | Catskill Outdoor Education Exp. | $5,000 | $1,000 |
| CHS | Lead the Way Engineering Course | $5,000 | $5000 |
| Kindergarten | Interplay Training | $4,000 | $4,000 |
| CMS | Mentoring Program | $400 | $377 |
| | TOTAL | $10,377 |
2006 Arts and Humanities Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CHS/CES | Native American Pottery | $1,247 | $1,200 |
| CES/CMS | Arts Map of the World | $5,000 | $3,500 |
| CHS | Rhythm of Life African Music | $4,611 | $4,000 |
| CHS | Media Literacy | $4,500 | $4,100 |
| CHS | String Fling/Berklee College of Music | $1,070 | $745 |
| CHS | Close Encounters in Chatham | $1,800 | $1,200 |
| CHS | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $1,500 | $1,000 |
| CHS | Chatham Intelligentsia Newspaper | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| CES | Voices of the Hudson | $4,900 | $3,500 |
| | TOTAL | $20,745 |
2005 Arts and Humanities Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| High & Elementary Schools | Spencertown Academy/Venetian Carnival | $4,500 | $3,000 |
| High & Middle Schools | Basic Film-Making Course | $2,000 | $1,000 |
| High School | Fall Festival of Shakespeare | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| High School | Conductor in Residence | $4,000 | $3,000 |
| Middle School | Technology & MIDI Education | $3,131 | $1,100 |
| Middle School | Our Secret Place: Inside the Brain | $1,070 | $1,000 |
| Elementary School | Hot Opera for Children | $1,500 | $1,500 |
| Elementary School | Voices of the Hudson River | $5,000 | $4,000 |
| | TOTAL | $15,600 |
2004 Arts and Humanities Fund
| School | Project | Requested | Recommended |
| Chatham High School | Walden Chamber Players | $4,500 | $4,500 |
| Chatham High School | Chatham Friends of Shakespeare | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| Chatham High School | 5th Annual Jazz Program | $1,194 | $600 |
| Chatham High School | Visiting Artist Series | $3,260 | $1,000 |
| Chatham Middle School | Printmaking | $4,777 | $3,200 |
| Chatham Middle School | Classroom Museums | $1,500 | $1,500 |
| Chatham Elementary School | Voices of the Hudson River | $3,200 | $3,200 |
| | Total | $15,000 |
2003 Arts and Humanities Fund
School
| Applicant/Project | Requested | Recommended |
| CCSD | Columbia County Council on the Arts | $5,000 | $2,500 |
| Chatham High School | Artist in Residence | $5,000 | $4,000 |
| Chatham High School | Chatham Friends of Shakespeare | $1,700 | $1,700 |
| Chatham High School | Winter Recital | $1,200 | $500 |
| Chatham Middle School | Arts Program Tech. Equipment | $5,000 | $2,600 |
| Chatham Elementary School | Chatham Kids Club Artists | $1,200 | $1,200 |
| Chatham Elementary School | Voices of the Hudson River | $2,700 | $2,500 |
| | TOTAL | $15,000 |
