Public Education Partners-Aiken

08/26/2026

📣PEP Chair Nancy Marks shares our initiatives to assist teachers in Aiken County. 🎯Check out this IMPACTFUL story. 📌

Community organizations in Georgia and South Carolina offer funding and supply support for classrooms.

08/13/2026

🚨 🚨🚨Aiken County teachers APPLY TODAY 🚨🚨🚨
Use the QR code or link to apply ✍️🏽 🏃‍♀️💨
Link to Teacher Grant Page: https://pepaiken.org/teacher-success/

07/23/2026

🥳Thanks to the The Gifting Tree Foundation, this impactful funding will directly support the continuation of the Diana Floyd “My Own Book” Program, helping ensure that school-age youth across Aiken County experience the joy, pride, and educational empowerment of owning their very own books. 📚🎯

07/20/2026

📣PEP Teacher Innovation Classroom Grants, the gift that keeps on giving👩‍🏫 Check out this article in the Aiken Standard on the fantastic outcome of one of the awarded grants.
Btw- HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 🏤🏨

Welcome to this month’s edition of PEP Talk, a column from Public Education Partners honoring the creativity, innovation and dedication of Aiken County’s public school teachers. Each featured educator has received a PEP Teacher Innovation Classroom Grant for a project designed to enhance student...

07/06/2026

🎯 Public Education Partners (PEP) provides a home to a range of scholarship endowments that are used to support our public schools.
🎉 This year we were able to distribute $23,500 in awards across the Aiken County Public School District.📌PEP would welcome inquiries if you are interested in building an endowment and scholarship program for Aiken’s students.
Contact Mr. Chip Retson, via email at [email protected]. You can also learn more or support one of PEP’s many educational programs by visiting pepaiken.org

https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/lifestyle/pep-talk-pep-scholarships-endowments-support-local-schools/article_a27e3565-3a8b-462e-98ee-cb126ef03334.html

Public Education Partners provides a home to a range of scholarship endowments that are used to support local public schools. PEP manages the funds and coordinates the scholarship awards. It connects with high school career counselors at all the public schools to publicize the scholarship opportunit...

06/25/2026

🤝 PEP connects 🎒 400 backpacks , stuffed with school supplies were delivered to Oakwood Windsor Elementary School. Owens Corning's HR Director Jon Williamson, reached out to PEP to help make the connection. Employees prepared the supplies for delivery.
🏫 We are sure that Principal Truitt is delighted to have the supplies in time for her welcome back event on July 16th. 🥳
📣 Business or private sector, if you have a desire and resources to fill a need in the public school system, but not sure where to begin, PEP can help 😉
https://pepaiken.org/

06/03/2026

🥳 PEP presented a total of $7,780.00 in grant funding 👩‍🏫 to Aiken County public school teachers to support creative, student-centered instructional projects designed to enhance classroom learning experiences and encourage innovation in education.

📸PEP's Grant Committee Chair John Hutchens is pictured presenting the check and celebrating recipients of the Spring 2026 Classroom Innovation Grants.

🎒The Classroom Innovation Grant program is made possible through the support of PEP and its generous sponsors including Meta.
https://pepaiken.org/ 📌 Check us out for more information on impactful programming.

05/30/2026

🫡 Public Education Partners would like to thank The Charitable Foundation of Aiken for allowing us to be the recipient of funds that will allow us to continue to serve the 📚 educators and students 🎒of Aiken County through impactful programming and initiatives.

The Charitable Foundation of Aiken held its second annual Polo n Blues event May 16 at La Bourgogne Polo Club.

05/19/2026

👩🏽‍🎓 It's that season 📜 PEP Board member Gayle Gulick was present at Silver Bluff High School's Awards 🏫 Day Ceremony to present the following:
📍J & A Garcia Scholarship to Cameron Green
📍Whitson "Yes I Can" Scholarship to Tamia Wilson
📍Randy Brinkley Scholarship to Caden Crapse
🥳 Congratulations 🎊 graduates 🎓

05/12/2026

📣Welcome our newest member to the Board of Directors, Mark Allen 🥳