1. Finding and Writing grants
Alice price Rushmore

2. Grant Process Submit Proposal Write Proposal and Budget
Identify Need
Research Available Grants
Write Proposal and Budget
Submit Proposal

3. Identify Needs What are you trying to achieve Dos and Don’ts
Violence protection activities
Student behavior, emotional and social supports
Mental health services
Early childhood social and emotional learning programs
Dos and Don’ts
Do have a purpose for the grant
Do call funding organization with questions about eligibility
Don’t make the purpose about money

4. Research Available Grants: Grantwatch.com
$199 per year

5. Research Available Grants Google: School Counselor Grants
Look for state-specific grants
Funding within grants—Carl Perkins
Look for additional resources

6. Research available grants https://sfitzjarrald.weebly.com/grants.html

7. Research Available grants Corporations
Organization/Web link
Priorities
Inasmuch Foundation
Education
Enhanced education opportunities
High quality early education
Innovation projects producing transformational change in public education PreK-12
Programs that enhance and strengthen organizations of higher education
Community Enhancement
Economic development
Kay Electric Community Foundation
Programs, projects and organizations that are important components of a community’s overall quality of life, with emphasis on health care, senior citizens affiliated organization and projects, self-sufficiency, and basic human needs. 
Educational, youth programs and volunteer fire departments are also considered for grants.
The Hearst Foundation
The Hearst Foundations fund educational institutions demonstrating uncommon success in preparing students to thrive in a global society.  The Foundations’ focus is largely on higher education, but they also fund innovative models of early childhood and K-12 education, as well as professional development.
Vulcan Materials Company
The Foundation is particularly interested in helping young people and their teachers understand the relevance of math and science to society, and supports efforts to link these subjects to their application in the workplace. The Foundation also will consider programs designed to educate students about the vital role of business and industry in society.
Chesapeake Energy
STEM Education
Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust
The TSET Healthy Incentive program offers grants to districts and schools that adopt and implement best and promising practices in tobacco-free environments, nutrition, physical activity and employee wellness.  
All public school districts that meet grant criteria are eligible to apply for a TSET Healthy District Incentive grant. School districts must successfully adopt health-promoting policies before individual schools sites are eligible to apply. Policy requirements for the TSET Healthy Incentive grants help to create a learning environment that establishes and supports healthy behaviors for students, teachers and staff. 
Sonic Corporation
We have elected to make the greatest impact by being very focused on efforts that support educational opportunities for youth between the ages of 4-22 within the state of Oklahoma.

8. Proposal Address each question
Support collaboration between secondary schools, postsecondary institutions, and employers to provide students with experience in, and understanding of all aspects of an industry, which may include work-based learning such as internships, mentorships, simulated work environments and other hands-on learning activities
Address each word
Treat as one group

9. Proposal Communicate purpose
Do Write to Grant Purpose
Write to grant requirements— don’t try to make a grant fit your needs
Answer questions that appear to be repetitive
Make flow easy for evaluators to read
Use headings

10. Proposal Use Data to support Narrative
Oklahoma has 435 students for every counselor, nearly double the recommended ratio of 250 students per counselor
Source: Oklahoma Department of Education

11. Proposal Use datA to support narrative
School counselors can assist students overcome barriers by helping them identify their educational and career goals,

12. Questions?