$EAC-ing community-minded entrepreneurs

As Mr. Cochran announced in today's Morning Meeting, the deadline for $EAC/DMHR grants has been extended to April 1 (no fooling!). $EAC and DMHR grant update Student Entrepreneurs Activating Community (SEAC) and David Markus Human Relations (DMHR) grants, funded by the DA Parents Association and an anonymous donor, give Upper School students the opportunity to design, propose, fund, and carry out projects that build community on campus or build bridges to communities outside the school. Find out more by clicking here.
Eight individuals/groups made proposals in the fall cycle, and six were funded. Please congratulate the following, and feel free to ask any member of the Student Life Committee for more information about the programs.

1. $850 for the SOCK Camp (Week-long summer camp for low income Durham kids.)
2. $70 for the CAVS Club (community service coordinators of drives, fundraisers, and projects).
3. $90 for the CAVS club (for DA students to collaborate with Hoop Dreams and take a group of 20 - 30 sick youngsters to a Duke women’s basketball game.
4. $100 for Science Olympiad (DA Upper Schoolers teach/entertain DA Lower Schoolers - pictured above).
5. $400 for Kate Taylor to send neck coolers made by DA students to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
6. $250 for Amigos de Hope Valley and Lakewood, the revived version of the Spanish club that has resumed one-on-one tutoring of Latino children at the Upper School campus on Saturdays.

The committee has up to $2,250 for its spring granting cycle. If you could use a micro-grant to improve our community or connect it with others, see Mr. Cullen, Mr. Ulku-Steiner, or the $EAC/DMHR web page any time.