January, 2010: RFPs for Grants to be Used for
School Climate Improvement
Sally Ember, Ed.D., Outreach Director
School budgets continue to be cut, and school staffing reduced. Yet, schools are obligated to provide safe and appropriate learning environments.
Below are links to several possible new ways to acquire funding for school climate improvement, prevention of bullying, and other ways to keep schools free of violence and mistreatment.
Some of these require partnering with other schools/organizations. Some of them require information that we can provide, upon request, and we would be quite willing to assist in that way.
Please review these opportunities, below, and click on the links to find out more.
Grant info
84.184E Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS)
RFP came out: December 15, 2009
ProposalDue: February 9, 2010
AwardAnnouncement: April 9, 2010
$ available:$100,000-$500,000,130 awards
Contact:Sara Strizzi =
Phone (303) 346-0924
Fax (202) 485-0041
The REMS grant can be used to fund bullying/violence prevention trainings/programming, if they include Staff Development.
The other grants, below, may be used for prevention programming focused on students or adults, including Parent Education, Staff Development, and perhaps other programs and services we offer as well.
$650 million Investing in Innovation Fund (i3). The i3 grants are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), to be awarded in three categories:
i3 RFP info and Grant Types
84.396A Investing Innovation Scale up Grants
RFP came out: December 21, 2009
ProposalDue: March 22, 2010
AwardAnnouncement: May 21, 2010
$ available:$30,000,000-$50,000,000 5-10awards
Contact: Mia Howerton =
Phone (202) 205-0417
Fax (202) 401-8466
Scale-up Grants: The largest possible grant category is focused on programs and practices with the potential to reach hundreds of thousands of students. Applicants must have a strong base of evidence that their program has had a significant effect on improving student achievement.
i3 RFP info and Grant Types
84.396B Investing Innovation Validation Grants
RFP came out: December 21, 2009
ProposalDue: March 22, 2010
AwardAnnouncement: May 21, 2010
$ available:$5,000,000-$30,000,000 30-50awards
Contact:Mia Howerton =
Phone (202) 205-0417
Fax (202) 401-8466
Validation Grants: Existing, promising programs that have good evidence of their impact and are ready to improve their evidence base while expanding in their own and other communities.
i3 RFP info and Grant Types
84.396C Investing Innovation Development Grants
RFP came out: December 21, 2009
ProposalDue: March 22, 2010
AwardAnnouncement: May 21, 2010
$ available:TBD,30-40awards
Contact:Mia Howerton =
Phone (202) 205-0417
Fax (202) 401-8466 Development Grants: The smallest grant level designed to support new and high-potential practices whose impact should be studied further.
Grant info:
84.184YImproving the Climate for Learning
RFP comes out: April 10, 2010
ProposalDue: May 28, 2010
AwardAnnouncement: July 28, 2010
$ available:TBD,136 Awards
Contact: Paul Kesner =
Telephone (202) 245-7889
Fax (202) 245-7166
Grant Info:
Sprint Character Ed Grant 2010
http://www.sprint.com/citizenship/education/sprintahead/
RFP came out: December 4, 2009
Proposal Due: February 5, 2010
AwardAnnouncement: May 15, 2010
Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to school districts and individual schools working to facilitate and encourage character education among K-12 students....
Sample Sprint Grant Application with Safe School Ambassadors program included