Whitehall Elementary Music Program Receives Public Schools Grant from MT Masonic Foundation

The Montana Masonic Foundation's Educational Grant Program provides teachers, student aides, and/or principals in Montana's public schools an opportunity to apply for a grant to assist under-funded programs in the following areas: Music, Drama, Science, and Library or areas of student enhancement or learning that have suffered cut-backs, or are experiencing start-up concerns.

The Whitehall Elementary School music program received a grant from the Montana Masonic Foundation in the amount of $1988.70. This grant will augment the elementary classroom with a new travel cart made specifically to handle a keyboard/laptop, speakers, and large instruments, a set of puppets, manipulative silicone discs with music theory applications, and add=on bass boomwhackers, plus octavator caps.

"I am very excited," said Janet Heilig, Whitehall Schools music teacher.

Proudly supporting public education in communities all over the great state of Montana is a primary purpose of the Montana Masonic Foundation. These past three years the MMF gave out over $150,000.00 to public schools; over $50k this year alone.

Other meaningful projects that the MMF has sponsored in the past include donating $9k to an "all-abilities playground" in Missoula. The MMF encourages educators to apply for grants during their next grant cycle, which opens October 1, 2021 and closes December 31, 2021. Those who submit grant requests will be notified as to whether their request has been funded or not in the following January. Arrangements for checks to be distributed occurs in February and March of 2022.

Established in 1960, the Montana Masonic Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that dispenses charity (public and private); encourages and promotes free public education and schools through endowments, grants, scholarships, as well as hosts a Masonic Library and Museum.