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Command Brand Partners with Kids In Need Foundation to Sponsor Teacher Grants ProgramST. PAUL, Minn. --(Business Wire)-- Command Brand from 3M (News - Alert) has announced its partnership with The Kids In Need Foundation, a national, non-profit organization dedicated to providing free school supplies to economically disadvantaged school children and under-funded teachers. As part of the partnership, Command Brand is sponsoring grants of the 2014 Kids In Need Teacher Grants program to fund classroom projects conducted by teachers in the Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts. Grants of $250 will be awarded to teachers who wish to conduct innovative classroom projects but lack the funds to do so. In most cases, these are special projects teachers usually must pay for out of their own pockets if they want to present them to their students. All teachers certified for pre-K through 12th grade in Minneapolis and St. Paul are eligible to apply. Applications will be available on the Kids In Need website, www.kinf.org, beginning July 15. The deadline for submission is September 30. "For seventeen years, the Foundation has been funding exceptional classroom projects through our Kids In Need Teacher Grants program," said Dave Smith, executive director of the Kids In Need Foundation. "We welcome Command Brand to the program and foresee that the grants awarded as a result of the sponsorship to mean the improvement of skills for hundreds of students in the Twin (News - Alert) Cities." "Teachers work incredibly hard, and we wanted to do something special to celebrate those in our local community," said Kate Semersky, business unit manager for Command Brand. "Through the 2014 Kids In Need Teacher Grants program, we're excited to give Minneapolis and St. Paul educators and students access to classroom supplies they may no otherwise have had. Command Brand Products are designed for easy and damage-free transformations in any room, and we look forward to seeing the creative ways they are used to bring educational projects to life." Teachers applying for the grants will be asked to submit projects that utilize Command Brand Products in innovative ways to enhance the academic skills of their students. "One thing we've learned over the past seventeen years is that teachers are creative and resourceful in their use of all kinds of materials to engage their students in the learning process," said Smith. "We are looking forward to reading the innovative ideas that will be generated by these grants."
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