The Foundation welcomes grant requests from members of Greendale Public School District. Grants are awarded to students, faculty, staff, or administrative members of the District in accordance with the Foundation’s mission. The Foundation will consider grants to:

• Enrich knowledge or skills beyond what is readily available in a course or curriculum
• Purchase materials, equipment or supplies to augment learning beyond what is available through the normal process of budgeting operational funds
• Promote innovations designed to improve learning
• Expand and improve upon co-curricular activities, not extracurricular, designed to augment current and related curriculum, including tuition and fees incurred by staff to design co-curricular activities
• Facilitate professional development, including special projects, beyond what is available through the District professional development plans this includes sabbaticals and/or course release time for educational projects and professional development.

The Foundation will not consider grants for:  the purchase or installation of equipment, textbooks, and supplies normally procured through the process of budgeting operational funds, or not directly related to education; student organizations; political activities; general operations; travel expenses of  off-campus trips; or extracurricular sports.

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1. APPLICATION.  Grant requests may be submitted any time.  Applicants must submit a written application to the Foundation’s office.  Formal applications should include the following:

▪ Project name and applicant
▪ Target group
▪ Amount requested
▪ School or location and staff involved
▪ A brief description of the proposed project and its objectives
▪ Timeline and outcomes

2. Preference is given to those individuals or groups which can demonstrate:  the extent of the project’s benefit and quality of service to the District, students, and staff; the ability of the applicants to achieve expected goals; and that the project is non-duplicative.  Grant applicants whose requests are contrary to the Foundation’s policies will be notified, within a reasonable time, that the request is unlikely to be funded.

3. REVIEW. A three-person Grant Committee, consisting of two members of the Board of Directors and an ex-officio member, reviews Grant applications.  The Committee reviews all elements of grant applications and, if necessary, interviews the applicant(s) for clarification or more information.  Grant applications will be reviewed a minimum of six times per year in conjunction with regularly scheduled meeting of the Board.

4. AWARDS. Grant awards are voted upon and approved by the full Board based on the Grant Committee’s review and recommendations.  Grants will be awarded in conjunction with regularly scheduled monthly Board meetings.  Applicants will be notified of the Board’s decision verbally and/or by letter within one week following the meeting at which the Board voted approval.

Grants are usually awarded on a one-time basis, as opposed to multiple year funding.

5. PROGRESS.  Grant recipients are required to submit a brief written progress report, including an accounting of expenditures and an evaluation of the overall effectiveness of the program, within one year of receipt of the award.  The Board reserves the right to monitor the progress of a project any time during the grant period.

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Click the link below to download Grant Policies/Procedures, Application, and Evaluation form (PDF)

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