N.E.W. 200 Foundation Occasional Grant Program

The N.E.W. 200 Foundation awards occasional grants for amounts greater than the $500 MiniGrant limit. These awards may come about through the expansion of a prior MiniGrant award to multiple classrooms or schools, or funding requests that simply exceed the MiniGrant level. We also consider how these grants align with strategic initiatives across the District. There is no particular award limit, but are limited to the available resources of the N.E.W. 200 Foundation. Past examples of projects we have funded include:

• Microscopes for Middle Schools (Middle Schools)
• Workshops for expanding the modeling methodology for teaching Physics (WWSHS)
• Interactive White Board to engage multiple learning styles (WNHS)
  

First Steps for Occasional Grant Applications

1. Educators with grant ideas are to contact Kathy Myers (kmyers@cusd200.org)
2. Applicants are to submit a one paragraph project description that summarizes the grant proposal as per the guidelines below.
3. Kathy will submit these abstracts to the N.E.W. 200 Board twice per year, in the fall and spring.
4. If the Board is inclined to further consider the proposal, it will ask for a full proposal. The full proposal will follow the guidelines listed below, submitted through Kathy Myers.
5. Full proposals submission will be followed by a presentation to the Board at one of their regularly scheduled meetings.
6. Grant awards will be administered in the same fashion as Mini-Grants.
7. Upon grant completion, the awardee will submit a report to the N.E.W. 200 Foundation that will include a demonstration of accomplishments and budget accounting.

Full Proposal Guidelines

A Full Occasional Grant Proposal will include the following, and in general does not need to exceed 2 pages:

• A Project Description that will provide a sense of the project, define the student instructional need that is being met, and establish a project timetable.
• An Impacts section that will describe what benefits it is intended to deliver, and to whom.
• A Broader Impact section that will describe how the project is innovative and its larger impact across the District or beyond it.
• An Evaluation section that will describe how you will determine whether your project met its goals.
• A Budget section that will outline the proposed expenditures and their costs, and describe why this is not covered by District funds.
• The Signatures of the applicant, their principal, and Kathy Myers.