Gendler Grants Recipients

2024-2025

Jackson Bores

Music teacher, Renton High SchoolRenton School DistrictGrant: $ 14,000One year grant to fund new instruments for band program

 

Jorge Morales and Joey Roberts

Music teachers, Denny International MS and Chief Sealth International HSSeattle School DistrictGrant: $ 16,000 Two-year grant to fund individual and small group coaching

 

Robert "Robby" Seager

Music teacher, Cleveland STEM High SchoolSeattle School DistrictGrant: $20,000One year grant to fund contemporary music production equipment

 

Mollie Ziegler

Music teacher, Terrace Park Elementary SchoolEdmonds School DistrictGrant: $10,000One year grant to fund new modern band music instruments

 

2023-2024

Melanie Gunn

Music Teacher, Whitman Middle School Seattle School District                         Grant: $15,000One-year grant to fund Wenger Instrument storage lockers.

 

Erynne Johns Smith

Music Teacher, Christa McAuliffe Elementary Lake Washington School District  Grant: $5000One-year grant to purchase a drumming set and handheld percussion instruments.

 

Kathleen Raschko

Music Teacher, Kimball Elementary Seattle School District                         Grant: $20,000One-year grant to purchase a set of Yamaha keyboards with accessories, and 24 concert ukuleles.

 

Kylene Ries

Music Teacher, Oak Heights Elementary Edmonds School District        Grant: $8,583One-year grant to purchase a set of six Wenger FlipFORMS risers.

 

2022-2023

Hilary Eldridge

Music Teacher, Olympic Hills Elementary Seattle School District            Grant: $19,732  One-year grant to purchase 8 sets of Jumbi Jam steel drums,1 set of Sonor Global Beat GBWEST-15 Classroom Bundle, and 10 Sonor Global Beat soprano xylophones.

 

Catherine Feller

Music Teacher, Lynndale Elementary Edmonds School District        Grant: $15,000One-year grant to purchase of four tenor pans, a double second pan, and the purchase of stands and cases for these new instruments, and three existing pans.

 

Brian Woolford

Music Teacher, Westgate Elementary Edmonds School District        Grant: $19,475One-year grant for the purchase of twelve marimbas.

 

2021-2022

Mark Edgbert

Music Teacher, Rising Star Elementary, @African American Academy Seattle School District              Grant: $15,620One-year grant for an instrument upgrade project based on the purchase of drums and barred instruments

 

Kathryn Lenoue

Music Teacher, Rainier Beach HSSeattle School District                        Grant: $20,000One-year grant for the purchase of a suite of marimbas

 

Robert Morgan

Music Teacher, Secondary School for Success (SAS) Northshore School District        Grant:  $20,000Three-year grant for coaching services, repairing and replacement of instruments, and purchase and maintenance of a Pro Tools software package.

 

2020-2021

Amy Stevenson

Chair, Music Department, Lynnwood HS Edmonds School District                    Grant: $20,000 Two-year grant to upgrade the music library repertoire and to fund coaching