Grant Alerts - July 22, 2015

The WCPSS Board of Education met on July 21, and approved a number of grant opportunities for the 2015-16 year.  Check out the Grant Alerts on the Intranet site, on the Grants Office Blackboard course, or on the Grants Forecast Calendar site.

Upcoming grant opportunities! Grant cycles will open on August 1, 2015 for the Target Field Trip and the Lowe's Toolbox for Education grants.

• The Target Field trip grant (https://corporate.target.com/corporate-responsibility/grants/field-trip-grants) provides up to $700, and is open through September 30.  

• The Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant (http://www.toolboxforeducation.com/hta.html) provides up to $5,000 and is open through October 16.

PLEASE NOTE: The Grants Office has developed a new Intent to Apply form which we hope will be easy to access and even easier to use.  This form should be completed any time you plan to submit a grant. You can access the form from anywhere that you have an internet connection.

A few tips: The form should be filled out by the contact person for the grant. Be prepared to complete the form in one sitting, as partially completed forms cannot be saved. 

The link to the new form can be found in all the usual places . . . on the Grants intranet site, on the Grants Blackboard Course, and on the Grants Forecast Calendar site. 

When you click on a link to the form, you will be asked to log in to your WCPSS Google account (if you are not already logged in to your WCPSS account). For directions on signing in to Google, visit http://google.wcpss.net/getting-started.htm.  Please let us know if you have any difficulty with the new form by emailing grants@wcpss.net.

Change of Fiscal Year

With the change of the fiscal year, Board approval for all previously approved grant opportunities has expired.  During the period from July 1 until the first Board meeting of the new fiscal year on July 21, there are NO approved grant opportunities. During this time, staff are welcome to research, plan, and write grants.  However, grants should not be submitted until we have received Board approval for the opportunity.

The Intent to Apply form is currently being revised. If there is a particular grant that you are considering, please email us at grants@wcpss.net so that we can include it on an upcoming Precís for Board approval.

A new Intent to Apply form will be available on July 22 when Board approved grants are posted. Based on user feedback, we are changing from an Adobe to a Google form, hopefully making the form trouble-free for those applying for grants.

Should you have any questions, please contact us at grants@wcpss.net.