Funding, found and filed
You shouldn’t have to become a grant writer to fund your teachers.
We do the legwork schools don’t have time for. Finding the funding, writing the applications, and managing the reporting so teachers and paraprofessionals can pursue the ideas they’d otherwise have to abandon.
- Tell us what your teachers and paras need.
That’s the whole ask. If a phone call is easier than a form, we’ll do that instead.
- Find the funders whose rules you actually fit
- Confirm eligibility before you spend a minute on it
- Track every deadline and renewal window
- Write the narrative
- Build the budget and the justification
- Pull together the data, letters, and attachments
- Route it to the right person for signature
- File it on time
- Handle the reporting after an award
- Tell you why, and try again, when the answer is no
What we go after
The things schools rarely have budget for.
Most of what we chase is money that already exists and goes unclaimed every year because claiming it takes hours nobody in the building has.
Professional development
Training, coaching, institutes, and coursework for teachers and instructional staff.
Conference costs
Registration, travel, lodging, and the substitute coverage that makes going possible.
Paraprofessional support
Training and credentialing for the aides and assistants who hold classrooms together.
New-teacher support
Mentoring, induction, and the first-year costs that drive good people out of the profession.
Certification & endorsements
Exam fees, coursework, and the add-on credentials your building is short of.
Projects & materials
The supplies and project costs teachers are otherwise paying for out of pocket.
We fund needs, not products.If an award pays for training, your school decides who provides it. We don’t recommend vendors and we don’t take a cut of anything.
Why this exists
The money is there. The hours to claim it aren’t.
What a school pays us. Ever. There’s no fee, no retainer, and no percentage of an award.
What we need from you to start. Everything after that is on our side of the line.
How long you’ll wait for a straight answer about whether there’s anything worth chasing.
Who can ask
Any school in the country.
Public, charter, private, parochial, independent. One building or a whole district. You don’t need a grants office, a development director, or any prior experience with this.
You also don’t need an existing relationship with us. Most of the schools we work with started by filling out the form at the bottom of this page with a fairly vague idea of what they wanted.
How it works
Three steps, and two of them are ours.
You tell us what you need
A short form, or a twenty-minute call if that’s easier. “Our paras need training and there’s no money for it” is a complete answer.
We do the legwork
Research, eligibility, writing, budgets, filing. You see every document before it goes out. Nothing is ever submitted in your school’s name without your sign-off.
The money goes to work
Funds are administered by the school under a written agreement covering permitted uses and reporting. We stay on for the reporting.
Request information
Ask us to take a look.
Tell us who you are and what you’re trying to fund. We’ll come back within five business days with what looks realistic, including when the honest answer is that there’s nothing out there right now, or that we’re not the right people to help.
We can’t promise funding. Nobody can. What we can promise is a straight answer about what exists and what it would take to go after it.