{"id":8361,"date":"2024-07-23T21:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2024-07-25T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:14:21","slug":"grant-streak-ended-but-two-more-grants-for-24-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/23\/grant-streak-ended-but-two-more-grants-for-24-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Streak Ended But Two More Grants for 24-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci-150x150.png\" alt=\"A Midjourney generated image representing a rural small town valley.\" class=\"wp-image-8363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci-144x144.png 144w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci-750x750.png 750w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci-120x120.png 120w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EnvSci.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Generated with Midjourney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 2023-24 school year was the first year since the 1999-2000 school year that I didn&#8217;t have grant money to spend (<a href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/26\/the-end-of-a-24-year-grant-streak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The End of a 24 Year Grant Streak\">The End of a 24 Year Grant Streak<\/a>). The bright side of that was that was also the first time in 24 years that I didn&#8217;t have to write an end of year report! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that going out looking for grants can be frustrating at best because in my experience grants just don&#8217;t work that way. In all the years I&#8217;ve written proposals and gotten grants, 53 total, I never went out looking for them. I heard about them and took the time to sit and write proposals for good projects (<a href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/06\/sample-grant-proposals-reboot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">here are proposals that I have written and had success with<\/a>). Grants are creatures of opportunity and not things to be relied on for funding, which is why it was amazing luck that I was able to get grants for 24 years straight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this past year I heard about a couple more grant opportunities and submitted three proposals. I got two of them (that&#8217;s another way to get grants, write as many proposals as you can! Both of the grants I got came from our very own Chimacum Arts and Fair organization! I also submitted a proposal to the Peninsula Credit Union grant program and did not get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first grant I got was $2,000 to support our longstanding outdoor education program to <a href=\"https:\/\/cispus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Camp Cispus<\/a>. These programs cost way more than schools can afford so community support is a great way to sustain such amazing experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second grant was $800 in support of my Environmental Stewardship Project (acceptance letter and check photo below)!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-772x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Grant acceptance letter and $800 check photo.\" class=\"wp-image-8365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-302x400.jpg 302w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-1158x1536.jpg 1158w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-1544x2048.jpg 1544w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-750x995.jpg 750w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/800DollarGrant-1-scaled.jpg 1930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Will I get another grant this coming year for the following year? Who knows? Nothing is certain when it comes to grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023-24 school year was the first year since the 1999-2000 school year that I didn&#8217;t have grant money to spend (The End of a 24 Year Grant Streak). The bright side of that was that was also the first time in 24 years that I didn&#8217;t have to write an end of year report! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/23\/grant-streak-ended-but-two-more-grants-for-24-25\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[33,196,40,28],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ednews","tag-edtech","tag-grants","tag-school","tag-teacher","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8369,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/8369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}