Across the United States, schools everywhere are experiencing budget cuts. For some schools, the only option to continue quality professional development is through grants. If you are searching for grant funding, I found a website that may help you.

SchoolGrants was created in 1999 as a way to share grant information with PK-12 educators. For most of us, grant writing can be intimidating. SchoolGrants helps ease those fears by providing online tips to those who need them. Finding a suitable grant opportunity requires a great deal of time. SchoolGrants reduces the search effort by listing opportunities available to schools and districts across the United States. You will also find sample successful proposals. These samples are available to everyone because generous individuals have shared their success by sending in their proposals to be posted on the site. As you explore this site, you will have the opportunity to subscribe to a free bimonthly newsletter containing a wealth of grant information.

Donna Fernandez created and currently maintains SchoolGrants. It was created when it became apparent to Donna that there were no sites like it for people from small school districts. She combined her love for developing web sites and her love for grant writing to create SchoolGrants. She credits the collaboration, cooperation and communication of all those using the site as the key to its success. She has been very involved in the grant writing process. During her time working at the school district level, she was responsible for bringing in from $40 to $65 million dollars in discretionary and entitlement funds each year.

If you benefit from this site, you are strongly encouraged to become one of those willing to help your colleagues also enjoy success. The best part is that SchoolGrants offers these services to school grant seekers at no cost. Check out this site today at www.schoolgrants.org.

For grant writing assistance or to request more funding sources please contact Dawn at dawn@kaganonline.com.