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SCHOOL FUNDING NEWSLETTER
February 21, 2007 (click here to see our archived newsletters)
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---Laurence Lee
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Editorial
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It amazes me sometimes just how fast we move through the school year. Here we are at the end of February, and there is only a little over three months left in our current year.
I think with almost two-thirds of the year gone, it's a good time to look both backward and forward. Regardless of your position in your school, you need to review the last several months in your mind to determine exactly what has been accomplished with your students. What things can they do now that they couldn't do in September?
What is it absolutely necessary that they be able to do before you reach June and the end of the semester? What groups are lagging? What individuals just aren't up to speed? What will you do differently in the next three months to give every child an equal chance at success?
We all need to be able to make frequent assessments and alter our activities to meet the needs of our students.
And that goes for principals, superintendents, curriculum directors, and every other administrator as well as teachers. We all make a difference---or at least we should.
When you've finished that little assessment, try this one.
What new program or program elements do you need for summer school or the fall semester to better meet the needs of your students? How will you fund those programs?
I encourage you to begin thinking today about using grant money to make the changes you need. You don't have to spend a month looking for the right grant or grants. We have over 110,000 available in The School Funding Center Grant Database. Let us help you find the grant money you need to support the changes you need to make this summer or in the fall semester.
Give your students every opportunity to succeed, and let us help you.
Don Peek
dpeek@schoolfundingcenter.com
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If you are really serious about getting grant money for your school, you should subscribe to our grant database.
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or fax: 1-903-856-5272 (signed purchase order)
or mail: The School Funding Center, 449 Rusk Street,
Pittsburg, TX 75686
United States' schools will get more than 6.5 billion dollars in grant money in 2007. Why should yours be left out?
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Feature Article
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After the Needs Assessment
In the January newsletter we talked about needs assessments.
Hopefully, you've taken that to heart and done some mid- year assessments over the past few weeks.
Once you've determined your strengths and weaknesses (for your classroom, campus, or district), it's time to determine what changes need to be made in order to change your weaknesses to strengths, or at least remove them as weaknesses.
For example, let's say that you've determined that your students in the middle school, grades 6th, 7th, and 8th, read on the average 1 1/2 years below grade level. You also find that both minority and at-risk students read more than
2 grade levels below normal.
You need to determine what programs or activities will alleviate this problem. You may not even have a reading program for every middle school student. Maybe you have one for at-risk students, but it's not working well for them.
That's exactly what I found when I became a principal a few years ago. We determined that all of our students needed a reading class. We decided that they needed to practice reading if they were going to get better at the skill of reading. We determined that they would practice an hour per day at school.
Remember, once you determine the need and the proposed solution, you have to commit both the time and the money to make the changes that have the best chance of fixing the problem.
Naturally, we didn't have money to get more reading teachers, buy more library books, and get the reading software that we wanted to monitor the daily reading of our students and the overall progress they were making.
We had to have grant money. We determined what we needed to fix the problem, what grants were available, and then went after what we needed. Unfortunately, we didn't have The School Funding Center Grant Database which would have cut our work in half.
We experienced a very happy ending. After two years, our reading scores were some of the best in the state of Texas.
When our students became better readers, their scores went up in every other discipline, too.
Word got out on how much we improved, and the governor of our state made a visit to our school.
Remember, first the needs assessment, then the solution, then find the grants to pay for the things you need to be successful.
We did it. So can you.
Don Peek
dpeek@schoolfundingcenter.com
The School Funding Center's database at http://www.schoolfundingcenter.com
will help you match your needs to the grants that are available. We include live links to e-mail and Web sites of
granting organizations whenever available.
Usually address, phone, and/or fax is included.
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Tips
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1. The beginning of all good grant writing is a needs
assessment.
2. Write grants specifically for the problem you are trying
to address.
3. Find the grants that match up most closely to the needs
you are trying to address.
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School Grant-writing Manual
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SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL GRANTS is a step-by-step grant-writing manual for both new and experienced grant writers. The author, Dr. Deborah Porter, is one of the most successful grant writers in the United States. You need this manual, $38.00 total cost, including shipping.
3 ways to order:
Phone: 1-877-856-7400 with credit card
Fax: 1-903-856-5272 (signed purchase order)
On-line: http://www.schoolfundingcenter.com/jump.asp
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Q & A
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Q. If you were going to pay for a grant to be written,
who would you contact?
A: For my money, Dr. Deborah Porter. She is not associated
with The School Funding Center in any way, but we do
promote and sell her school grant-writing book. Dr.
Porter is awarded more than 90% of the grants she writes.
To contact her, go to: www.accessgrants.com
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Grant Announcements
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Grant name: International Research and Studies Program
Funded by: U.S. Department of Education
Description: The International Research and Studies Program provides grants to conduct research and studies to improve and strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, area studies, and other international fields.
Program areas: ESL/bilingual/foreign language, professional development
Recipients: Public school, private/charter school, higher education, other
Proposal deadline: 3/29/2007
Total amount: $1.55 million
Contact person: Ed McDermott
Telephone: 202-502-7636
Email: ed.mcdermott@ed.gov
Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=12349&mode=VIEW
Availability: All states
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Our database is filled with every state, federal, and foundation grant available to your school. You have absolutely no need to buy any other product. We already monitor over 4,000 sources to compile our grant information.
We have grants for universities, colleges, K-12, and pre-K.
We have grants for public, charter, private, and faith- based schools.
Our database contains over 110,000 grants worth over
$6.5 billion.
To order, go to: http://www.schoolfundingcenter.com/jump.asp
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Grant name: Alcohol Abuse Reduction Program
Funded by: U.S. Department of Education
Description: This program provides grants to LEAs to develop and implement innovative and effective programs to reduce alcohol abuse in secondary schools.
Program areas: At-risk/character, safe/drug free schools
Recipients: Public school
Proposal deadline: 3/26/2007
Contact person: Amalia Cuervo
Telephone: 202-260-0504
Email: amalia.cuervo@ed.gov
Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=12530&mode=VIEW
Availability: All states
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Grant name: Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program
Funded by: U.S. Department of Education
Description: The purpose of this program is to improve student reading skills and academic achievement by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped, technologically advanced school library media centers; and well-trained, professionally certified school library media specialists.
Program areas: Library, reading
Recipients: Public school
Proposal deadline: 4/2/2007
Total amount: $19.5 million
Contact person: Irene Harwarth
Telephone: 202-401-3751
Email: Irene.Harwarth@ed.gov
Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=12628&mode=VIEW
Availability: All states
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Grant name: StreetSentz Community Grant Program
Funded by: Radio Shack Corporation
Description: The RadioShack StreetSentz Community Grant program is designed to offer answers that bring community impact through programs or projects conducted by local nonprofit organizations.
The program currently focuses on two areas: prevention of family violence/abuse and/or child abduction.
Program areas: At-risk/character, family services, all other
Recipients: Public school, other
Proposal deadline: 3/15/2007
Average amount: Up to $500
Website: http://www.radioshackcorporation.com/cc/contributions.html
Availability: All states
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Feedback
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Don Peek
dpeek@schoolfundingcenter.com
I look forward to hearing from you.
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General Info
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