Grant Recipients

The Glen Park Festival is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, run and staffed by volunteers. The festival's profits (excepting a modest reserve used to fund the advance costs of the next year's festival) are donated each year to children's programs in and around Glen Park -- schools, libraries, playgrounds and so forth.

Applications for grants from the 2012 festival are now being accepted -- you can obtain an application in PDF, MS Word or ODF form. Applications for grants must be received by May 19th, 2012.

Here's where the festival has made donations in recent years:

2011 Beneficiaries

Proceeds from the 2011 festival enabled a record level of donations to local family and children's programs:

• A new indoor play structure at Glenridge Cooperative Nursery School
• St. Paul's Elementary School: funds for a new reading curriculum
• Miraloma Cooperative Nursery School: lumber, planting soil and seeds for garden beds
• Basketball and gardening equipment for children at Fairmount Elementary School
• Refrigerator for cooking projects at Glen Park Elementary School
• Partial funding for a new math specialist at Sunnyside Elementary School
• The Festival association also donated to the assistance funds for the familes of Lt. Vincent Perez and Fireman Anthony Valerio of Diamond Heights Station 26

2010 Beneficiaries

• Billygoats Cooperative: Funded a Petting Zoo event, providing an opportunity to meet and interact with farm animals to children enrolled in the program, as well as those of the Centro Las Olas preschool, Billygoats alumni and siblings.
• Glenridge Cooperative Nursery School: Furniture and toys
• St. Paul's Elementary School: Scholarships for student participation in annual overnight field trip
• Miraloma Cooperative Nursery School: Composter for the school yard
• St. Aidan's Episcopal Church: Supplies, counselor stipends and scholarships for a new one-week summer camp, focused on study of nonviolent peacemakers around the world.
• Fairmount Elementary School: Supplies and gardening equipment for study of science through gardening in the classroom and through an outside garden. Also purchased critical thinking and strategy boardgames for different grade levels, for use in spare time and as rainy day activities.
• Glen Park Elementary School: Support for the Glen Park Elementary Green Schoolyard Project, including child size gardening equipment
• Sunnyside Elementary School: Helped pay for lunchtime activitity leaders in support of the Sunnyside Healthy Lunchtime Project, enabling constructive lunch activities and age-grouped recess afterward.

2009 Beneficiaries

• Aidan's Way Afterschool Program: Books, supplies and equipment
• Fairmount Elementary School: New playground equipment
• St. Paul's School: Funds to help purchase a new bike rack
• Glenridge Cooperative Nursery School: Classroom equipment
• Escuela Pachamama: Classroom equipment
• Glen Park Library: Funds to purchase a graphic novel collection and hire special performers