PROFESSIONAL
Perkins & Funding
Managing Grant Funds
Effective grant management can be just as critical to a project's success as skillful proposal writing. Mismanaging a grant can have serious consequences, including having to return funds, damaging your reputation, and jeopardizing eligibility for future funding.
Prior to writing a proposal, assess whether your organization is prepared to implement and monitor the funds it may receive. Then be prepared to do the following on an ongoing basis:
Managing a Grant
- Inspire and sustain participants' interest and excitement.
- Check regularly that the project is meeting stated goals and objectives.
- Adjust the project's implementation along the way, as needed.
- Evaluate the project carefully, collecting information about instructional practices and student outcomes.
- Report progress to stakeholders.
- Validate that grant money is being used for allowable expenses.
- Facilitate visits from auditors and administrators.
Online Funding Info
Gathering the information and resources you need to apply for funding can be a daunting task. To help simplify the process, Glencoe has created the Grant Resource Center, a free online source that is available through our Web site's eSolutions program. The Grant Resource Center gives you the tools you need to submit effective requests for grants. Highlights include:
- Information on the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT or Ed Tech) program, including information on how to use the funds
- An extensive list of hot links to the different types of grants available
- An explanation of what information most grant funding agencies require, broken down into easy-to-use sections
- Advice on grant writing dos and don'ts, along with hot links for more grant writing resources
- Tips for managing grant funds
You can access the Grant Resource Center at www.glencoe.com/esolutions/educator/grant_resource_center.html.
Use Perkins Funding for Glencoe Materials
Your school may qualify for federal money under the recently reauthorized Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act. Among other things, the Perkins Act allows grant funds to be spent on supplemental materials for career and technical education programs, such as videos and DVDs, computer simulations, online tutorials, and workbooks. Such materials help you provide rigorous and challenging academic and career instruction for your students. They also help you plan and present varied, motivating activities (such as self-guided and team projects) and accommodate different learning styles.
Glencoe provides a wide range of supplemental materials eligible for purchase with Perkins funds. To see what is available to you, browse Glencoe's "one-stop shopping" catalog of instructional materials. Click the link below to download the catalog, which presents high-quality, innovative products for Family and Consumer Sciences; Business, Careers and Marketing; and Trade and Technical Education.
Funding Resources
www.donorschoose.org
Go to the "About" page for information on how teachers can post class projects and request donations.
www.staplesfoundation.org/foundapplication.html
The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth.
www.seaworld.org/conservation-matters/eea
SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards reward money to K-12 students and teachers across the country who are working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve the environment.
www.Target.com/tcoe
Target donates undesignated funds to K-12 schools nationwide twice a year through its Take Charge of Education program. Funds have been used for everything from books and supplies to extracurricular activities.
