Area teachers have just one month left to apply for a McDonald's MAC Grant, which offers financial support to help teachers Make Activities Count for their students.

MAC Grant applications for grants of up to $400 for teachers in kindergarten through eighth grade must be submitted by July 31, 2011.

Teachers can download or fill out an online application by visiting www.JerryLewisMcDonalds.com/macgrants. For additional application information teachers can call 419-225-5916. A limited number of grant recipients will be chosen on or before Sept. 1, 2011.

Since the MAC Grant program first started in 2004, Jerry Lewis' McDonald's Restaurants has given more than $109,000 to more than 300 local teachers.

The funding for the MAC Grant program comes directly from food sales at Jerry Lewis' McDonald's Restaurants.

Local McDonald's Owner, Jerry Lewis, offers this exciting educational initiative to assist area elementary and middle school teachers with their important job of educating young students. Recognizing that lessons often become more meaningful when demonstrated with hands-on experiences, McDonald's supplements regular classroom curriculum by supporting activities that the school's budget may not allow. Teachers can use grant money to energize a science lesson by building a weather station or make history come to life by recreating pioneer life with butter churning and candle dipping. Because McDonald's is soliciting ideas from teachers, project ideas are limitless.

McDonald's franchisee, Jerry Lewis, started in the McDonald's business as a Manager Trainee in Zanesville, Ohio more than thirty years ago.

Today he owns and operates 17 McDonald's Restaurants employing more than 900 individuals in Lima, Delphos, Van Wert, Beaverdam, Bluffton, Ada, Ottawa, Hicksville Carey and Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Jerry Lewis believes in giving back to the communities in which he does business and supporting a variety of worthy causes.