About the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC)
The Community Foundation of Greene County is designated as an Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Organization.
The EITC program is a project of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development which accepts contributions from area businesses and corporations to support innovative educational programs in public schools, as well as scholarships for children attending accredited K through 12 private schools and children attending qualified and approved Pre-Kindergarten programs.
Businesses receive Pennsylvania tax credits for their contributions – 90% tax credit if the business makes a two-year gift, or a 75% tax credit for a single year gift for the Public School Improvement or K-12 Scholarship Organizations up to a maximum of $300,000 annually. For contributions to Pre-Kindergarten Scholarship Organizations a business may receive a tax credit equal to 100% of the first $10,000 contributed and up to 90% of the remaining amount contributed up to a maximum credit of $150,000 annually.
The Foundation encourages businesses to participate in the program by making either unrestricted contribution to support any of the pre-approved programs, or restricted contributions that support specific approved programs and scholarships.
Restricted donations are distributed according to the business’s preference, and the unrestricted donations are pooled.
The EITC K-12 and Pre-K scholarships are distributed to income eligible Greene County students attending approved private schools and Pre-K programs.
For more information about the EITC K-12 and Pre-K Scholarship programs click here for the EITC K-12 and here for the Pre-K Scholarship.
GRANTS
EITC Innovative Educational Improvement Grants
(for Public Schools)
We are proud and very thankful for the generosity of the following companies who have contributed to the EITC Educational Improvement (EIO) program in Greene County County during 2011 and 2012:
CONSOL Energy Inc.
EITC EIO contributions support grants for innovative, advanced curriculum projects that benefit students in public schools.
An “innovative educational program” is an advanced academic or similar program that enhances the curriculumor academic program of the public school, but that is not part of the regular academic program of a public school.
The instruction, programs or other activities offered by or through an innovative educational program may include , but are not limited to, any of the following characteristics:
a. integration with the instructional program of the public school. (Must be tied to an existing curriculum such as, social studies, English, math, science, health, etc.)
b. supplements, reconstructs or involves a major revision to the existing curriculum or academic program of the public school.
c. provides a different focus, delivery (including internet-based and distance learning technologies), methodology or skill training than is provided in a typical academic program of a public school.
d. offered separately from the public school curriculum or academic program.
e. offered before or after public school hours, on weekends, as a year-round program and/or as an extension of the public school year.
f. offered as a standards-based program of instruction that operates outside of the length and time requirements of the public school, but which meets the minimum hours or days of instruction required by state law.
g. use of specialized instructional materials, instructors or instruction not provided by a public school.
h. use of internships and other work-based learning opportunities for a student that supplements the curriculum or academic program of a student and provides a student with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the academic program.
i. offers instruction or programming that provides credits/advanced placement at a two-year or four-year college or university authorized by the Department of Education.
j. reconfiguring, renovating or equipping a facility that is owned by a public school in order to create a specialized environment that is integral and necessary to the operation of an innovative educational program. Examples of projects in Greene County have included grants for computer labs, GIS software, sound and lighting systems, Envirothon, Smartboards, Forensics curriculum, Greenhouse construction and curriculum, Natural Gas Exploration, Production and Geology curriculum, Groundwater Simulation software, and others.
Click here to download the EITC Educational Improvement Grant Guidelines and Application Process
EITC EIO CONTRIBUTORS
We are proud and thankful for the generosity of the following companies who have contributed to the EITC Educational Improvement Program to support innovative, advanced curriculum projects for public school students.
CONSOL Energy Inc.
For more information about the EITC program, check out the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs website or click here to download the EITC Information Sheet.
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