San Angelo Schools Foundation has been giving grants to teachers for 35 years! We all know teachers never have enough money to do everything they want to for their students. The Schools Foundation decided to begin helping make those ideas and dreams possible.

We started in 1989 by giving grants in both the fall and spring semesters. That was a great introduction to SASF and showed our objectives in helping all teachers of San Angelo Independent School District. We made our offer of money for projects within the classroom to teachers from Pre-Kindergarten through the senior grade of high school by having the individual teacher fill out a simple grant application and then give us an evaluation of how it went at the end of the semester. The idea caught on quickly and with positive feedback.

By 1996, there were too many grant applications to review twice a year. The Schools Foundation changed to giving grants every November to as many if not more, teachers. The delivery of these checks was a surprise to the teachers. When they heard a crowd whooping and yelling and carrying a bunch of brightly colored balloons, they got excited hoping their application was selected