GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Today, The Green Bay Packers Foundation awarded $250 thousand grants to the CP Center in Allouez, and the Green Bay Area Public School District.
District Superintendent Michelle Langenfeld says the plan is to use the money to transform the libraries in 13 schools into multi-media centers.
“Media Centers across the country right now are becoming the engagement center for students, staff and the community.”
She says the centers will feature flexible and collaborative seating , maker spaces that provide materials and devices for students to create projects and active learning conferencing centers with technology pieces and media tables.
Unlike the school district grant, The CP Center will have to raise an equal amount to get the money.
It will be used to pay for the sustainability of several current programs and to bring on 5 additional programs not currently offered in Northeast Wisconsin.
CP provides progressive , individualized services for a variety of physical, sensory and communication disorders for more than 2,000 infants, children and adults each year.
Green Bay Packers Foundation chair Terry Fulwiler says picking recipients each year is tough.
“It’s probably one of the most difficult parts of doing this. Because there are so many worthy organizations”
The Foundation awarded 318 grants in 2016, totaling $1.3 million.
The Packers Foundation has distributed almost $8 million for charitable purposes since it was established in 1986.
