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WHITE SALMON, WA - The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) is pleased to announce it has awarded more than $32,000 to outstanding educators and programs in the White Salmon Valley School District
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation will hold its fifth annual Career Day at Columbia High School on March 27 from 8:15 a.m. to 1:40 p.m.
WHITE SALMON, WA. - May 23, 2023
“Communities of Care” spring workshop series to launch in Klickitat County
This spring, Klickitat County residents and professionals alike are invited to attend a 5-week Lunch N’ Learn workshop series for Klickitat County residents or those who provide services in the County. Presented by facilitators from The Next Door, Inc., and sponsored by the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) and Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health (SWACH), this free workshop series focuses on the unique needs of communities living in Southwest Washington.
WHITE SALMON, WA. - The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation will host its 4th annual Career Day at Columbia High School on April 26 from 8:15 a.m.-1:40 p.m.
Arrowleaf, Beneventi’s, Everybody’s Brewing, Feast, Harvest Market, Henni’s, Le Doubblé Troubblé, Pizza Leona, Soča, and the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) invite you to shop and dine locally to support White Salmon public schools with the “Night Out For Schools” event Thursday, March 16, 2023.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation welcomes Kylie Uffelman as the new executive director.
WHITE SALMON, WA., February 1st, 2023 - The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation will hold its 4th annual Career Day at Columbia High School on April 26th from 8:15 AM-1:40 PM. Local businesses and organizations will have booths at the Career Fair portion, and local business owners, community leaders and others will participate in panel discussions about careers in small group sessions. There are still slots available for presenters and booths- contact Kylie Uffelman for more information or to get involved: kylie@wsvef.org.
The White Salmon Valley School District and White Salmon Valley Education Foundation have recently received a variety of grants to support student achievement and well-being.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) in collaboration with the White Salmon Valley School District (WSVSD) is proud to announce continued funding for A-List Adventures
The foundation recently awarded nearly $60,000 to fund new programs in the district during its annual spring grant cycle.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation is offering juniors and seniors enrolled at Columbia High School a free college essay writing workshop on October 12.
The White Salmon Valley School District and White Salmon Valley Education Foundation have recently received a variety of grants to support student achievement and well-being.
Starting this week, the health and wellness center building on the White Salmon Valley School District campus is opening to provide services at a permanent location. The program, born out of an initial $75,000 grant through Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health (SWACH) and a partnership with NorthShore Medical Group and White Salmon Valley Educational Foundation, and later supplemented through additional funding by SWACH and community donations, will now have a permanent residency on the school district campus.
Three Bingen/White Salmon-area organizations — CultureSeed, Gorge MakerSpace and the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation — have received grants from the Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund to support out-of-school programming for vulnerable youth.
White Salmon Valley School District and the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) have collaborated to provide food, household and hygiene items and school supplies to families facing difficult times.
Community groups serving White Salmon have pooled resources to provide free books to children.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation will receive $100,000 in funding for the White Salmon Valley School District’s Health and Wellness Center, to be utilized in the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years. Funding is provided by the Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health (SWACH), a Vancouver, WA.- based nonprofit organization.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation was set to provide a free SAT prep class to any interested Klickitat County high school student this spring, then the Covid-19 crisis hit, The Foundation decided to continue to offer the class, and moved it to an online format, utilizing Zoom. The course wrapped up last week.
After our schools were closed due to covid-19, art teachers Patty Carpenter (WPSIS/HMS), Kelsey Lemon (CHS) and Janet O'Sullivan owner of Tokki Art Supply started brainstorming ways to help kids stay creative at home.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation and the White Salmon Valley School District have teamed up to provide groceries and household supplies directly to families who have lost jobs or are otherwise facing hard times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A group of White Salmon service providers - the Klickitat County Link Group, or K-LINK - recently learned that it will be awarded $800,000 in total funding from the Southwest Accountable Community of Health (SWACH) in a highly competitive award process, to launch a Community-Clinical Linkages Program.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) has been selected by Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health (SWACH) to receive funding for a Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP) focused on bringing mental health and substance use services directly to students and families in the district for the upcoming 2019-20 school year.
How is a galaxy billions of light-years away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night? Join the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) May 29th, 7PM at Columbia Center for the Arts as we welcome Astrophysicist Dr. Paul M. Sutter to take us on an exciting tour of a universe far larger than we can imagine.
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) is thrilled to announce the recipients our annual grant cycle, which will provide a total of $35,730 to high quality educational projects in White Salmon's schools. This process, previously comprised of two smaller grant cycles, has been consolidated into a single, larger cycle offered in spring to better meet the districts’ needs. The grant projects run the gamut from the construction of a cutting edge electric vehicle, to providing observational beehives, purchasing essential band instruments, supplying graphing calculators, and creating a Diversity Classroom library.
Change is the name of the game this spring for the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF). At the organization’s annual April Executive meeting, the group welcomed three new board members and a second grant writer, saw several other board members change positions, and said goodbye to a long-time supporter.
The White Salmon Valley School District received an early holiday present in the form of more than $23,000 awarded in the second granting cycle of the calendar year. Students throughout the district will benefit from the latest round of funding provided by the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF).
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) has hired Rita Pinchot as its new Grant Writer. Rita also serves as the Regional Prevention Coordinator for ESD 112, supporting mental health promotion, suicide prevention, and working to reduce youth substance abuse.
Media arts, technology, and social programs all get a helping hand, as the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) today announced the successful recipients of the organization’s $20,000 winter grant cycle.
At-risk and struggling 1st through 8th graders in the White Salmon Valley School District will continue to have a safe place to go after school, to receive valuable help with academics and other life skills…
The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) was recently awarded a $2,000 grant from the Gorge Community Foundation. The Joan Burchell grant will fund Home Arts opportunities for students in 4-12th grade to acquire skills in gardening, sewing, and cooking…