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(GISD | CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) Students and staff of Graham High School are presented grants Monday, May 18 from the Graham Public Education Foundation. GHS was presented with four grants totaling over $50,000. -
(GISD | CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) Students and staff of Crestview Elementary School are presented grants Monday, May 18 from the Graham Public Education Foundation. Crestview was presented a grant for the written expression fine motor skills program.
The Graham Public Education Foundation continued its charitable efforts and donated over $80,000 in grants to Graham ISD teachers during their spring disbursement.
GPEF is a nonprofit organization that works to enrich and enhance the education of Graham students. The organization takes a bus with board members and campus administrators, called the prize patrol, to each campus to present awards each year.
The organization provides funding to GISD teachers outside of the budget through an application process and obtains money through donations and fundraising events. The organization actively seeks donations from alumni, citizens, businesses, corporations and other foundations.
The prize patrol for GPEF visited each district campus to present the awards Monday, May 18.
Graham High School received TI-84 calculators, new FFA show supplies and $57,863 for an Exiss trailer for livestock. To help prepare students for the SAT exam, PSAT exams were funded for eighth and ninth grade students for GHS and Graham Junior High School.
Other grants were provided to GJHS for a mathematics program, welding supplies and the Texas Studies Weekly program for sixth grade students. Texas Studies Weekly is a TEKS-aligned social studies curriculum.
Pioneer was presented grants for magnetic tiles, a STEM and maker space and a program to elevate the classroom. Crestview received a grant for student written expression and honing fine motor skills while Woodland received a grant for the Planning for Success program.
These grants follow a disbursement made by the organization in December 2025 where they provided $11,266.45 to GISD teachers.
This was the first year GISD Chief Academic Office Janel Madeley was a part of the prize patrol program being new to the district and she said in December that the experience was outstanding.
“I have never seen another organization that invests into student outcomes more than GPEF. Even when they were going through the processes and trying to decide which grants were going to be accepted or not, it was always about, ‘How do we help the students more? How much does it help out more? How does this help our teachers?’” Madeley said. “They were 100% invested in the outcomes of our students, and they want to help our teachers and our educators.”
To donate to GPEF drop off a donation at the GISD admin office at 400 Third St., call 940-549-0595 or email gpef@grahamisd.com.
