Section 1 – Contact Info; Please help us stay in touch by supplying school and direct contact info. The more applications we receive the more grants we can support, so please consider sharing contact info for your peers so they can apply as well. You will receive a password and personal link to your application after your contact info is received. From that point you may submit the sections of your grant, as they become ready, and at your own pace, up until our deadline of Nov. 11th, for completed applications
Section 2 – Narrative; Please use our online submission form to share with our peer-to-peer reviewers your environmental project idea. Use approximately 2 pages of text for this section (~6600 characters, in 12 point, single-spaced, typed text, with 1” margins). The online form will accept a fixed amount of text. Your narrative should focus on the following 4 areas. Please use the following questions to fine-tune your narrative.
1. Design: Describe your project design. Does your project address the NC Beautiful mission and NC Standard Course of Study? Is it integrated with other disciplines like language arts, technology, math, social studies, etc.? Will your project impact student learning and the local community? Will it create community awareness and involvement? Provide action plan and timeline as a part of your description so that we can see your steps and the timetable for their accomplishment. Keep it simple. We want to hear your story.
2. Project Evaluation: How you will evaluate the success of your project; How does it get students into the Green? For example, does your project gather and analyze information/data? Will your data produce student work materials, plans, activities for your future classes and other teachers? Will you use written, photographic and video records to publicize or promote your efforts and the successes of your students and your project? Could your project be replicated across North Carolina? Let us work together to tell the whole state about your idea!
3. Project Personnel: Identify other project personnel, their roles and responsibilities, their position in school or community and how these individuals will help ensure project success and sustainability. Feel free to Include a bio (as a part of your supporting documents) that shows the knowledge or innovative thinking that key project personnel could contribute to the success of your project.
4. Project Sustainability: Describe how your project will be sustained after this grant money runs out. Are there resources and people to sustain it? Are there partnerships with the community you can form to provide support and financial assistance after the grant funds are expended? Will your students continue to develop a relationship with natural systems? How will the enhancement of science teaching be accomplished? (Feel free to include letters of support from your community that show how they will help sustain your idea.)
Section 3 – Budget; Please include ½ page narrative justifying why you need these funds and ½ page, in table format (cut and paste from your spreadsheet, optional) showing where the money will be spent.
Budget items: List the types and quantities of materials and equipment needed. List local vendors for these materials/equipment. Explain your budget and how materials and equipment will be used. Seek in-kind resources (supplies, funds, people-power) that can be solicited within the school and surrounding community. Some good sources can be parent groups, civic organizations, teacher associations, or local businesses.
Section 4 – Commitment letter; Please print out the Commitment Letter from our online application to be signed by the applicant and school principal. Please scan and upload as a .jpg or .pdf attachment. Receipt of this letter completes the required portion of the grant submission process, but you have till Nov. 9th, to supply supporting information which you think will assist our peer-to-peer teacher reviewers to better understand your project.
Section 5 – Supporting documents; Using our online service, please feel free to submit (optional) .jpg or .pdf files with drawings, photos and letters of support from your fellow teachers or community partners. In order to keep the amount of info judged by reviewers to a manageable level, please understand that we can accept only one .jpg/pdf for each of these subjects. The size of the files are limited to <300 kb each.