How to Secure Funding for Your School or Non-Profit – with CBS Education Consulting’s Chiara Deltito-Sharrott

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.

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?”