ISTAT Foundation Awards Habitat for Aviation a 2026 Education Grant

Written by Beth White

On July 31, we received wonderful news from the ISTAT Foundation: Habitat for Aviation has been selected for a 2026 ISTAT Foundation Education Grant of $10,000.

The grant will support our SEE IT. TRY IT. BECOME IT. program, which is all about opening our hangar door so more young people can see aviation up close, try real skills, and begin to imagine themselves as mechanics, pilots, and builders. That is the heart of our work. We are not only assembling a RANS S-21, we are building belonging, confidence, and a path into a field that still has far too few women and girls in it.

We are grateful to the ISTAT Foundation for believing in our mission and in our young people. Support like this helps us keep Sunday build days, STEM project days, and hands-on outreach going strong.

If you want to help us keep this work flying, visit, volunteer, or give at habitatforaviation.org/give.

Beth White

Education Possibilitarian, Artist, Writer, Doula, Mentor, Aviatrix, Breast Cancer Survivor, Pilot-in-Command at Habitat for Aviation

Born and raised in Vermont, Beth worked in a variety of schools in New England, including The Met, which is Big Picture Learning, flagship public high school in Providence, Rhode Island. After a decade in the classroom, Beth returned to the University of Vermont to earn a PhD in educational leadership and policy studies. She is an education possibilitarian, artist, a writer, a doula, a mentor and aviatrix and most recently, after winning a tough battle with breast cancer, Beth founded Habitat for Aviation to inspire the next generation of airplane mechanics, avionics, specialists and pilots.

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