Hood River County Education Foundation Teacher Grants 2017-18
The Hood River County Education Foundation is interested in funding educator and/or student-designed projects that exemplify excellence in education.
Who is eligible to apply? Any Hood River teacher, staff, District employee, or student is eligible to apply.
Deadlines and Timing Proposals must be received in the Foundation office by 5:00 pm on Thursday, January 5, 2017. You 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. This is a $1,200 increase from previous years. Our hope is that a larger budget will allow for more innovative, impactful teaching ideas. Unfortunately, we have NOT also increased our total budget for Teaching Grants, so larger grants will necessarily mean fewer grants. Please keep this in mind as you consider your grant requests. We especially love inexpensive AND innovative ideas!
What kinds of projects are we looking for? HRCEF wants to support better ways to teach, new subjects to explore, and interesting experiments to try. Our intent is to provide the critical funds to turn the best of these ideas into action. We will consider requests for classroom supplies, special projects, residencies, professional development for teachers and other staff, new curricula, after-school programs, educational equipment, and new innovative ideas, among other things.
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. • As in years past, 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 in the event with colleagues. • 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 or contact the Foundation.) • Because HRCEF wants to encourage new and innovative ways for students to learn, 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 still considered, but new ideas will receive preference. • Incomplete grants will not be considered.
Other Information • Funds not utilized for the purposes specified in the grant request must be returned to the
1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org 1 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. All grant recipients will be required to submit a short report about their project and the use of funds received.
How to apply Fill out the attached application or download the application form at www . hrcef .org under the Grants tab at the top of the page Feel free to recreate the application on your computer, but you must follow the format provided in the application. We will not hand-written applications. Applications may be hand-delivered, mailed, or emailed to [email protected], with the name of applicant in the subject line.
PLEASE CONSIDER E-MAILING YOUR APPLICATION AS AN ATTACHMENT TO AN EMAIL. THAT REDUCES OUR TIME IN PROCESSING AND SCORING THE APPLICATIONS. WE WILL SEND YOU A CONFIRMATION WHEN WE RECEIVE YOUR APPLICATION. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A CONFIRMATION EMAIL, PLEASE CONTACT US.
Your application must be signed by you and your school principal. Electronic signatures will suffice. If your application comes from your school district e-mail address, that will serve as your signature (you do not need to scan the application). In lieu of an inked signature, your principal may send an email authorizing the grant, with the name of the applicant in the subject line, to [email protected] by the deadline.
Where to Apply: Applications must be RECEIVED by 5:00 pm Thursday, January 7, 2017. Please send your completed application to:
Hood River County Education Foundation 1009 Eugene Street Hood River, OR 97031
OR (preferred method) email to the Foundation office at ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or .us. Or hand-deliver to our office in Community Ed at the Coe Building.
About the Foundation: The goals of the Hood River Education Foundation are: ~ Promote student development through additional educational enrichment activities, grants and recognition of academic effort. ~ Encourage excellence in education by supporting unique staff development opportunities and implementation of innovative ideas and programs. ~ Encourage collaborations between schools and the community that share resources and enhance learning opportunities.
1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org 2 • Hood River County Education Foundation Teacher Grant Application 2017 Please follow the format below. You may expand your responses beyond the space provided, but keep the entire application to no more than 4 pages. The applications must be word processed or typed; we will no longer accept handwritten applications. Any application that does not follow the format and these instructions will not be considered.
Applicant Name(s)*: School:
Subject/assignment: Grade level School e-mail address taught: Year in School, if # of Students student: to be served Title of Project:
Total Grant Request: Total Project Budget if different: *Please list all staff collaborating on this grant application, 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) Please describe your project in full. Describe any collaboration with other staff in your project.
3) Describe 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.
4) Describe the project timeline (e.g. when will the project be implemented/how long will it run?)
5) Clearly state the learning objectives
6) Explain what the project will accomplish and how you will evaluate your success. (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.)
7) Discuss any anticipated obstacles
8) Explain how your project furthers the Foundation’s goals.
1009 Eugene Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031 | 541-387-5713 | www.hrcef.org 3 9) 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.)
Source of other Funding Amount Are funds committed now?
10) TOTAL Project budget Please include all sources of income and all expenses for the project. In some cases, the only income may be Education Foundation funds and the expenses only the item to be paid for. In other cases, there may be multiple sources of income and/or multiple expenses. Please include all that are related to your project.
Income:
Expense: (Provide a detailed budget—e.g.2 widgets at $202 each=$404.)
Date submitted: Applicant Signature: Not needed if the application is emailed from your school e-mail address to : ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or .us
______Principal’s approval: Check all that apply: This project cannot or will not be funded or co-funded by building funds, student fee funds or PTO funds. These resources have been explored and rejected. This project can and 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 signature:** Date: ______**Not needed if principal sends e-mail approval and answer to the question above from school district email address with applicant name in subject box. to ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or .us
DEADLINE: Applications must be RECEIVED by 5:00 pm, Thursday, January 5, 2017. If you have any questions or need any more information, please contact the Education Foundation at ed . foundation @ hoodriver . k 12. or .us or (541) 387-5713.
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