Causes: Education, Primary & Elementary Schools, Secondary & High Schools

Mission: The East Longmeadow Educational Endowment Fund is a non-profit private foundation whose goal is enhancing the educational opportunities offered in all East Longmeadow public schools. We raise funds over and above what is provided for through taxes.

Results: Each year ELEEF awards grants to teachers at the 5 public schools in town. Since 1996, ELEEF has granted over $350,000 to fund items not normally covered by the town's tax supported budget. If you, or someone you know, have been a student in East Longmeadow during the past 18 years, you have benefited from an ELEEF grant in some way. A complete list of grants awarded since 1995 is on our web site www. eleef. org.

Target demographics: public school children.

Direct beneficiaries per year: our 5 pubic schools with $22,000 annual in grants so far totalling $350,000.

Geographic areas served: East Longmeadow, MA

Programs: Past grants have funded an iPad learning lab, Robotics programs, new classroom books and maps, digital microscopes, an orchestra program, science, math and reading software, an engineering program, indoor and outdoor garden program, TI 83 graphing calculators and so much more.