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Hood River County Education Foundation Innovative Teaching Grants 2018-19

The Hood River County Education Foundation is interested in funding innovative educator and/or student-designed projects that exemplify excellence in education.

Who is eligible to apply? Any Hood River County School District teacher, staff, employee or student is eligible to apply.

Deadlines and Timing Completed Applications must be received by the Foundation via electronic submission by 5:00 pm on Monday, January 8, 2018. Applications are to be e-mailed to ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or .us. Applicants will be notified in mid-February of the Board’s decision. Projects should be completed within one year of award. The decisions of the Board are final.

Size of Grant Awards will not exceed $2,000 per grant. No grant is too small - we especially love inexpensive AND innovative ideas!

What kinds of projects are we looking for? HRCEF wants to support projects that enrich student learning through direct academic benefit, staff development or non-academic learning opportunities. We are looking for innovative ideas that exhibit a creative or new approach, program, area of study, means of instruction, etc. that benefits students.

Grants will be considered based on breadth, depth or longevity of impact, as well. With limited funds raised primarily from individual donations, we seek projects that impact a large number of students (either at one time or over a number of years) OR that involve a unique depth for a smaller number of students. Cost-effectiveness will be judged on either low cost-per-student- impacted OR significant impact-per-student. Preference will be given to grants where two or more educators work together on a project, broadening the scope of impact and cost-effectiveness of grant monies.

Also aiming at cost-effectiveness, preference will be given to applications that leverage funds from more than one source. We do not fund projects that should be paid for out of school budgets. Specific questions about funding sources are asked in the Principal’s Approval section of the Application.

Ineligible Projects • Teaching grants will not be made to any fee-based programs. These include preschools, after- school care, and other programs requiring a fee. • We will not consider requests for salary or field trip expenses. • For professional development requests, the Foundation will only fund registration fees, not travel expenses or substitutes. These grants must include a discussion of how the applicant will share the information gained at the event with colleagues.

1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 1 [email protected] | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org • If you have received a grant award in the past, you must submit a report on that grant before any new request will be considered. (Report Forms are available at www.hrcef.org >Grants>HRCEF Teacher Grant Report Form and due to the Foundation via email by 12/1/17.) • Preference will be given to new proposals for grants that have NOT been funded in the past (for the same or very similar project in the same classroom or school). Repeat grants will be considered, but new, innovative ideas will receive preference. • Incomplete grant applications will not be considered. All questions must be answered. A DETAILED budget with exact costs must be included in the proposal so that, if accepted, budget codes can be created directly from this application by the School District.

Other Information • Funds not utilized for the purposes specified in the application must be returned to the Foundation in a timely manner. They may not be re-allocated for any other purposes. • The Foundation reserves the right to use any project information in its promotional activities. • Grant recipients are highly encouraged to post photos and updates of their teaching grants in action to the HRCEF Facebook page or to otherwise submit them to the HRCEF.

How to apply Please complete the attached application, which can also be downloaded from the Grants page at www . hrcef .org, and email it to us at [email protected]. DO NOT CUT AND PASTE a Word document into an email because it scrambles the format and makes it hard to read. Please send the application form AS AN ATTACHMENT to an email from your school district email address, with the name of applicant in the subject line. We will not accept grants that are not in the format that we provide. We will not accept hand-written applications or hard copy deliveries of the application.

We will send you a confirmation email when we receive your application. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact us.

We cannot accept any late submissions, so start early.

If you have questions please contact Aspen McKenna at [email protected]

1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 2 [email protected] | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org Hood River County Education Foundation Innovative Teaching Grants 2018-19

APPLICATION

Please complete this application form. You may expand your responses beyond the space provided, but please keep the entire application to no more than 4 pages. We do not accept handwritten applications or applications in any other format than this form. Any application that does not follow the format below and answer all the questions will not be considered. DUE DATE: 5:00 pm on Monday, January 8, 2018.

Applicant Name(s)*: School: Subject/Assignment: Grade level(s) impacted: School email address (list all applicants): Year in school, if student: Title of Project: Number of Students to be served: Number of years that item(s)/project will impact students: Total Dollar Amount of Grant Request: Total Budget, if different:

*Please list all staff collaborating on this grant, as applications where two or more staff work together on a grant- funded project to reach more students are given higher priority.

Please address the following questions in the order provided. Feel free to expand your answers beyond the space provided. Keep your total application to no more than 4 pages.

1) Brief Description. Describe your idea in 100 words or less.

2) Detailed Description. Describe your project in full using as much space as needed. Please describe here any collaboration with other staff for your project.

3) Clearly state the learning objectives. How will your project benefit students?

4) Briefly explain how the funds will be spent. (e.g.—microscopes, or paperback novels, or music for mid-school choral singing.) A detailed budget is required in item 10.

1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 3 [email protected] | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org 5) Explain your plan for evaluating the success of your project. (If funded, you will need to submit a report after the project is completed, including data on how this project achieved success in meeting your learning objectives.)

6) Discuss any anticipated obstacles

7) TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET a) Income. If your project uses funding from sources in addition to the Education Foundation, please explain how much is needed, where those other funds will come from, and if those funds are already committed. (Points are added in the scoring process for projects that use multiple funding sources.) If this grant from the Education Foundation will be your only source of funds for the project, please list it here with the dollar amount of your grant request.

Source of Funding Amount Are funds committed now?

b) Expenses. Provide a detailed list of all expenses for your project. (e.g 2 widgets at $202 each = $404.) If funded, this budget will be used by the School District to generate your budget codes, so it must be complete and thorough. Please do your research to find the best possible prices so that we can fund as many projects as possible!

c) If this is a multi-year project or if the item(s) can be used for multiple years, what will be the additional cost-per-year in future years, and where will those funds come from?

Applicant Signature (type name here): Date submitted: Note: Hand-written signature not required. Email from your school e-mail address to ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or . us will suffice. You do not need to scan the application.

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1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 4 [email protected] | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org Principal’s Approval (Check all that apply) Other funding sources for this project have already been explored and rejected. This project cannot or will not be funded by building funds, student fee funds or PTO funds. This project will be co-funded from other sources, from either within or outside the School District. (Additional points will be added in the scoring process for grants that leverage funds from more than one source.)

Principal(s) Signature(s) (type name here): Date: Note: Neither principal’s signature (typed, not inked) nor checked boxes above are required IF principal sends e-mail approval with answers to the 2 questions above from school district email address with applicant name in subject box to ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or .us. (Principal may simply forward staff member’s attached application after they’ve read it and answer the above 2 questions in the body of the email.) If 2 or more schools are involved, the principal of each school must email approval for the project.

DEADLINE: Applications must be RECEIVED by 5:00 pm, January 8, 2018 via email to ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or .us

If you have questions please contact Aspen McKenna at [email protected]

1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 5 [email protected] | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org