april 2025 update
grants now open for 25-26 school year!
A K-1 student at Lincoln Options is proud to show off a puzzle completed during their math lesson earlier this year. The tools used to build them were made possible thanks to a Foundation Opportunity Grant.
Apply today for projects that cultivate student potential!
The application for Olympia Education Foundation grants for the 2025-2026 school year is now open to Olympia School District staff who work directly with students.
Looking to support a project to help cultivate student potential at your school? Review our guidelines, get your principal or supervisor's approval, then complete and submit a simple Google Form, available here.
The application will remain open until 5 p.m. Friday, June 20. Applicants will be notified of the status of their request by mid-August, and funds will be made available by Sept. 8.
Requests may be made in any amount up to $2,000. (Exception: Browsers Books Grants have a limit of $500).
This is the first of only two application periods for the upcoming school year. The second will open Aug. 25, 2025, and close Oct. 24. Applicants will be notified by Nov. 14, with funds available by Nov. 24.
golf discount expires! register soon to save!
Register your team or sign up to sponsor today!
Registration is open for this year's Olympia Education Foundation Golf Scramble, which is set for Friday, July 11, 2025, at Capitol City Golf Club (with a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start). As always, it benefits our Principal's Emergency Fund -- and all of our work to cultivate student potential.
Early bird rates are available here until 11:59 p.m. May 18.
Sponsorships are also available at multiple levels -- and many include teams of four.
We look "fore-ward" to seeing you at the Olympia Education Foundation Golf Scramble this July!
student & community well-being resource library
Speaker series recordings available online!
Our free Student & Community Well-Being speaker series has concluded for the 24-25 school year.
We were thrilled to host local marriage and family therapist Alexis Roberson (neurodiversity-affirming caregiving and strengthening self-regulation as a caregiver), local parent coach Emily McMason (screens and anxiety), Aidan Key (two-part workshop on gender diversity) and Dr. Bre Haizlip (mental health is generational wealth) this year.
If you missed any of these presentations -- or would like to re-visit them -- most are available on our website. Please check them out -- and let others know they are available as a community resource.
We are starting to plan next year's series -- and welcome your feedback. Use the button below to share your ideas.
shop at haggen april 23 - june 3 -- and support students!
We are grateful to have been selected as a beneficiary of Haggen's 2025 Building Brighter Futures Together campaign.
Shop at Olympia's Haggen between April 23 and June 3, and you'll have an opportunity to cultivate student potential by making a donation to the Olympia Education Foundation at any of the store's check stands!
All proceeds will support the Principal's Emergency Fund, which allows school staff to immediately assist students who have urgent basic needs.