The Princeton Area Community Foundation has awarded the Trenton After School Program a $17,750 grant for its Our Kids Count Math Enrichment Program. The grant is part of the 2010 Spring Greater Mercer County Program and was announced Aug. 26.
The TASP program, part of Princeton Outreach Projects Inc., is scheduled to begin along with Trenton schools early this month and will be offered to approximately 150 after-school students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Each site will feature one math specialist plus qualified math student workers to follow the successful curriculum offered at 4,800 different sites nationwide that now serve more than 192,000 students. The program utilizes the K-5 portion of the Development Studies Center’s K-6 After School KidzMath Program.
The goal is to ensure the student population is prepared for the rigors of middle and high school mathematics. With this comprehensive program, site leaders use cooperative math games and literature-based activities to increase children’s employment of mathematics, their mathematical understanding and skills as well as their ability to work with other classmates in order to support and enrich the concepts learned in school.
The program also offers support for teachers in the form of support kits, workshops and online aids.
TASP serves students in first through eighth grades in Trenton’s West Ward and will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2011. It is an outreach program of Princeton Outreach Projects Inc., a non-profit agency established in 1986 by the Nassau Presbyterian Church and Trinity Episcopal Church.
The Princeton Area Community Foundation promotes philanthropy and builds community across Mercer County and central New Jersey. It offers guidance about charitable giving to individuals, nonprofits and corporations, and it makes grants to nonprofit organizations. Since its founding in 1991, the foundation has granted over $28 million to the community. For more information, visit www.pacf.org.

