On Monday, March 2, 2026, the Longview ISD Foundation awarded its 2026 Great Rewards for Great Ideas Grant Program and the Campus Initiative Grant Program.
 
Great Rewards for Great Ideas Grant Program
 
Grant winners received funding from the Longview ISD Foundation ranging from $100 to $2,500 for innovative classroom projects and programs that will enhance the quality of education and improve student achievement for all students in Longview ISD.
 
This year, on the thirty-first anniversary of the Great Rewards for Great Ideas Program, applicants requested $47,996.82 through nineteen grant applications.  The Foundation funded ten grants totaling $18,048.59. The Foundation funded eight elementary grants for a total of $14,412.71 and two secondary grants for a total of $3,635.88.
 
Teachers at East Texas Montessori Prep Academy, Johnston-McQueen Elementary School, Ware East Texas Montessori Academy, Forest Park Middle School, and Judson STEAM Academy received funding through the Great Rewards for Great Ideas Program for the 2025-2026 school year.
 
Since the beginning of the Great Rewards for Great Ideas Program in 1996, the Foundation has funded 797 grants totaling $878,552.52.   These grants have enhanced Longview ISD’s academic programs as well as music, art, technology, counseling and guidance, career education, health and physical education, character education programs, and STEAM and STEM projects.
 
Campus Initiative Grant Program
 
The Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. received three Campus Initiative Grant applications requesting $12,456.42 and funded two for a total of  $9,050.51.  This year’s grant recipients are Christy Scott, Hudson PEP Elementary School principal and Kimberly Storey, Academic Dean at Hudson PEP, and Mary Taylor, Foster Middle School principal, and Holly Thomas, social studies teacher at Foster.  The Campus Initiative Grant Program offers campus principals and their designees the opportunity to request up to $5,000 for materials or an educational program or project that will benefit the entire campus. 
 
Since 2008, the Longview ISD Foundation, Inc., has funded 56 campus grants totaling $176,728.36.

Through the Great Rewards for Great Ideas Grant Program, the Campus Initiative Grant Program, and the annual John W. Harrison, Jr. Academic Field Trip Grant, the Longview ISD Foundation has returned $1,198,747.96 to LISD educators to enhance the quality of education for all students.
 
For a list of this year’s grant recipients, visit the Longview ISD Foundation’s website at www.lisdfoundation.org and click on Great Rewards for Great Ideas on the menu bar at the top of the page. 
 
 
 
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