PRIVATE

GENERAL INFORMATION

Administering Organization

Sharington School District: Hope Elementary

Mailing Address (Street, City, State, Zip)

       1515 Prodigal Lane    Sharington WI 88888   

  Eligibility: Corporation (nonstock, nonprofit) or public agency (check appropriate box)
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Project Director/Contact Person
       Penny Pound

Daytime telephone area code/number

(999) 000-0000                      

Fax area code/number

(999) 000-0001

Email

ppound@corpulent.k12.wi.us

Mailing Address (if different from above) Street, City, State, Zip

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       ¨   Admin. Organization ¨Project Director

Project Title

                    Food: Distribution and Utilization

What WEEB priority does project address? Select one.

¨I                      ¨II         III       ¨IV        ¨V     ¨VI

       Grant Request                 $    2800.40          

       Matching Funds              $     1428.66        

       Percent Match:                        51  % (25% minimum)

       Projected Start Date ____August 20, 2007_________

       Projected End Date______Dec 31, 2008_______

WI Legislative Assembly District(s): 

       1

WI Legislative Senate District(s):

1

Wisconsin Nonprofit Corporation Number  or LEA ID No.

             1415          

        CERTIFICATION

If this project is approved, the undersigned certifies that the organization will participate as indicated in the narrative and will provide the matching dollars by cash, services, or in-kind contributions between July 1, 2007 and December 31, 2008. None of these grant funds will be used to supplant existing funding.

Project Director
Penny Pound

Signature                         
Ø    Penny Pound

Title
       5-6 Unit Leader

Date signed

       12/15/2006

Primary Grant Writer
 Bea  Product

Signature                         
Ø    Bea Product     

Title
       5^th Grade Teacher

Date signed

       12/13/2006

Chief Executive Officer

 I. Ken Save

Signature

Ø     I. Ken Save   

Title

       Superintendent     

Date signed

       12/15/2006

             ABSTRACT

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A one week investigation at Hope Elementary revealed an average of 5.2 gallons of milk wasted daily and a first day food waste of 70.4 pounds. This proposal would create instructional units for fifth grade students which focus on resource distribution and utilization—specifically food resources—as related to personal decisions and actions.

Municipal solid waste (MSW), specifically ways to reduce it, is being addressed within Sharington.  Residents are actively engaged in county sponsored recycling programs that collect aluminum, glass, newsprint and some plastics. This proposal would enable a new food waste separation system to be initiated and piloted at the elementary school. Interested sixth grade students (same cohort of students -just the next academic year) will then reach out to and educate members of the larger community about food waste to resource initiatives through programs they design, implement and evaluate.

The project director will share details of the curricula modifications at the 2008 Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education (WAEE) fall conference. Information about the initial school pilot program will be shared by students and staff at a school board meeting. Sixth grade students will showcase their programming efforts at the annual science fair event.