Chiara explains how schools and non-profits can secure grant funding, how to frame DoE grants, and why a grant’s evaluation section is so important.

It can be confusing to know what funding is available for educational programs and difficult to identify where the funding for education is.

But there is still a sizeable amount of grant funding available for non-profits and schools, you just have to know how to find the right funding and how to properly apply for a grant.

Chiara joins us to discuss how organizations can get support with Department of Education Grants, the different grant funding available for non-profit schools, and which Department of Education funds are still open for applications.

She also explains the impact a grant can have on a school, the type of evaluation metrics you need to provide for a grant, and why it’s so important to have an evaluation section in a grant.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How organizations can get support with Federal Department of Education Grants.
• The different grant funding available for non-profit schools.
• How Department of Education funding is changing post-pandemic.
• Which Department of Education funds are still available to apply for.
• The funding available in Guam for after-school programs.
• Why it’s important to have an evaluation section in a grant.
• The type of evaluation metrics to provide for a grant.
• The impact a grant can have on a school.
• How schools can properly navigate the grant application process.
• How the Logic model makes the grant application process easier.
• How mentorship can help grant applications.
• The advantages of using a productized service model instead of hourly billing.

About Chiara Deltito-Sharrott:

Chiara Deltito-Sharrott is the Founder of CDS Education Consulting where she provides K-12 education leaders with governance support strategies so that they can lead excellent and well-resourced schools.

Chiara brings a unique lens to her work as she has spent significant time working at each layer of the public education sector: the school, district, nonprofit, and state education levels. She started her career as a grant writer and credits this role with developing her ability to plan strategically, generate partnerships, and align programmatic goals to budgets.

Through her Master’s program in Urban Education Policy at Brown University, Chiara was able to develop technical analytical skills related to research, policy, and program evaluation, which she pairs with a commitment to social justice and educational equity as well as a belief in the power of young people.

Together this forms a philosophy for CDS Education Consulting which helps schools to gain and deploy resources in a manner that is both student-centered and aligned programmatically.

Since 2014, Chiara has raised over $26,000,000 for schools and nonprofits throughout the US and has set an ambitious goal of raising $100,000,000 by 2030.

Connect with Chiara:

• LinkedIn
• Schedule a free consultation
• Newsletter Signup

Quotables:

• “There’s definitely still money out there for these types of education programs whether their non-profit or a school. You might not be aware of those fundings available so being able to work with you to identify where the funding is.”
• “We’re seeing that grant funders will want to know two things: One, who’s done this work that you’re doing now and what does research tell us about whether or not it’s proposed to be successful? Two, if you’re going to pilot something or continue a program, what measures will you use to know if you’re successful or not?”
• “Keeping that lens that a human being is going to be reviewing this application, what makes it easy for them with their rubric in hand to be able to see whether you’re checking off those individual pieces?”

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Free Grant Writing Class
• Grant Easy Management Software
• CBS Education Consulting
• Free grant planning template and logic model

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