Avnet Cares awarded six community grants last month – impacting individuals across the U.S.
Avnet reviews grants on a quarterly basis and focuses on the areas of STEM, Environment and Communities in Crisis.
Two of the grants are in support of science museums in Dallas and Chicago, both in their second year of support from Avnet Cares. The Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebeart Nature Museum requested funding to support their Science on the Go (SOG) program – the museum’s longest running program with 30 years of success. The program provides grade-specific lessons for students and teachers in levels K-8, reaching more than 250 teachers and 7,000 students each year – more than 70% of whom are from low-income households.
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas will receive support for their TECH Truck program. The TECH Trucks are mobile makerspaces that operate year-round and provide interactive STEM-based experiences to over 40,000 individuals each year. The program is free to all, with an emphasis on reaching Title 1 schools and low-income communities.
Other grants awarded this summer include:
A New Leaf (AZ) – support for their La Mesita family shelter in Mesa, AZ, impacting 500 individuals annually.
Education Empowers (AZ) – funding will support their STEAM career explorations program and LEGO Robotics programs for students in rural and under-resourced communities.
Desert Botanical Garden (AZ) – support for conservation internships that will focus on seed gardens, removing invasive plant species in the community and protecting habitat and migration corridors.
St. Mary’s Food Bank (AZ) – support of their Food Distribution Program, which provides free food to low-income Arizonans – impacting 800,000 individuals each year.
To learn more about Avnet Cares’ grants program, click here.
