This site is a resource to help you improve the academic, behavioral, and social opportunities for your students, families, schools, and our community. Grants can also be valuable and vital tools to help you develop your professional skills. Here you'll find information on the $465 billion annual giving world of grants. Some grants are fairly easy to write—others more difficult. If you have the passion and persistence to acquire these grants, you and your students will benefit far beyond the life and dollars of the grant. Funding organizations want to see that passion, a well-thought out plan or project, and a commitment to seeing it through.

On this site you'll find the following information:

Grant Opportunities- Contains a listing of grant opportunities organized by content area (literacy/reading, science/math, history/social studies, technology, physical education/health, arts/music, community service, professional development, and the environment). These content specific areas are based on the requests we've received from teachers/administrators for resources in these areas. We've also included a listing of helpful websites to give you access to additional funding sources—these sources have initially included a Top Teaching Resources webpage that lists several funding sources for a variety of teacher projects

Updates- Provides information on grants submitted by the Foundation or Kearney Public Schools to various funding organizations, grants received, and thank you site to people that worked on and helped with grants. To be successful with grants, you need a team of committed people willing to put forth the extra effort to help our students and families succeed.

District Grant Process- Contains the protocol for KPS staff to follow to obtain grant help, forms you can use to identify funding sources, develop a budget, and proposal form you can use to ask for help from the Foundation's grant office. This also contains helpful terms used in some grant forms and in the grant community. Finally, it provides some helpful hints on how to write a grant and what to look for in RFP's and other alphabet soup acronyms.

Foundation Grants- Contains the minigrant application form, guidelines on submitting your proposal. The Foundation's minigrant is open for competition in the spring. Check back to access the most current information.

The webpage is designed to be user friendly. It will be updated often . Your comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated as we strive to bring you more opportunities to have a meaningful and lasting impact on our students, staff, families, and community.

Thank you!