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.
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.
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