Grants from ACE
Leahy Awards
The Thomas Leahy Awards for Educational Entrepreneurship are designed to encourage innovative projects and activities targeted to improve educational opportunity for needy students and/or under-resourced schools. The Leahy Awards are not only intended to benefit students and schools with great need, but to inspire and empower current and former ACE teachers to think creatively and concretely about ways to enact their dreams. Through the Notre Dame Awards for Educational Initiatives, ACE seeks to encourage current and former ACE teachers to become change agents. Award amounts range from $500 to $5000.
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Chris Lary Awards
Open to ACE participants, two to three awards are given annually to ACE schools for specific projects proposed in an open competition judged by a committee of Chris’ friends and family in conjunction with the ACE staff. Award amounts range from $500 to $2000.
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Panzica Grants
Annual distributions of up to $4000 are available for ACE teachers in under-resourced schools. These distributions will be used to enhance the learning environment of the school rather than just the classroom of the ACE teacher.
-Grants for up to $2500 may be submitted.
-A brief statement will describe how the request will strengthen the school beyond the time that the current ACE teacher will be at the school.
-Signatures of the mentor teacher/department chair and principal signify agreement that the request will be a longer-term benefit to the school beyond the time of the current ACE teacher.
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Educational Materials Grants
For first-year ACE teachers in schools that lack basic educational materials, ACE will budget $2500 annually for the purpose of supplying ACE classrooms with essential supplies with a limit of $50/teacher. Supplies must be approved by the university supervisor and are to remain with the school.
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Professional Development Projects
Upon the approval of the principal and the faculty of supervision, ACE will support the release-time expense for substitute teachers up to two days each year for ACE teachers to observe the classroom of an experienced and highly effective colleague.
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Conference Participation Grants
ACE teachers and alumni who are currently classroom teachers or graduate students and who wish to present at state or national education conferences may apply for grants not exceeding $600. These grants will be awarded on a competitive basis.
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Licensing Requirements
ACE will reimburse any ACE teacher the additional costs incurred in meeting the requirements for a license necessary to fulfill ACE teaching responsibilities, not covered by the host dioceses.
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ACE Education Award to Catholic School Teachers
The decision to teach in Catholic schools after ACE often entails financial sacrifice, particularly when one considers individual debt originating from undergraduate student loans. In seeking to help alleviate that debt burden, ACE is pleased to offer education awards to several of its graduates who continue to teach in Catholic schools beyond their two-year ACE commitment, and who also demonstrate significant financial liability.
Participants are eligible to receive a maximum of two awards. The maximum cumulative amount of such awards will be $3,600 for those in ACE 7 and beyond. No graduate may apply later than seven years past his/her graduation date.
Payments will be made only to cover outstanding undergraduate Stafford and Perkins loans, and all checks will be issued directly to the lender. No checks will be issued to individuals.
Just as the use of the AmeriCorps education awards constitutes a taxable event, so too will the use of these awards be taxable. Click HERE to download an application.
