TO: NEISD Educators
FROM: North East Educational Foundation
SUBJECT: Request for Project/Program Grant Requests for
2010-2011
The North East Educational Foundation (“NEEF”) is a non-profit
organization created to develop and expand educational opportunities for
students of the
As in past years, NEEF will direct its funding to
district-wide, single campus, and single classroom projects. General
project qualification guidelines;
2.
Campus projects must be approved by both the CIC and principal;
3.
District-wide projects must be approved by both the DEIC and the
Associate Superintendent of Instruction; and
4.
Project grant requests must be submitted on time
NEEF has elected to limit the number of grant
requests that will be accepted from a given campus to three (3). Please
see the broad definition of campus below. Priority will be given to grade-level
or subject-wide campus projects over individual classroom projects.
Please follow the instructions below in order to
apply for funding consideration. The process requires that all grant requests be
electronically submitted to NEEF by
The following items will not be funded by the
foundation:
Grant Request Submittal Instructions
1.
Please fill out the online NEEF
Project Grant Request Form 2010. This will be considered as the “official
version” of your grant request and submittal.
2.
Please do not modify the document formatting or try to substitute
an “equivalent” document.
3.
Upon completion of the Project Grant Request, please print a
hard copy
for signature(s) and submittal in steps 6 and 7 below.
4.
When you press the “submit” button at the bottom of the third (last) page
of the grant request form a specially
formatted file will be automatically created and submitted to NEEF:
o
Please note: this part of the
process must be done from a computer with both email and Internet access.
o
Your email system will submit your grant request (via an Adobe .pdf file)
to projects@northeastfoundation.org
5.
Please do not submit any pamphlets, brochures, price lists, photos,
or other material with either the electronic submittal or the properly signed
hard copy of your electronic submittal.
6.
Secure the required approval signatures. Failure
to secure the required signatures will be cause for the submittal to be rejected.
7.
Send (via PONY) a hard copy of the grant request form with the signature
page to:
Northeast Educational
Foundation (NEEF)
2nd Floor
Faxed
transmissions will not be accepted.
8. We suggest you keep a copy of the grant request and
signature page for your records.
Time Table
We will begin
accepting project grant requests beginning
1.
Deadline for the online grant request submission no later than
2.
Deadline to send a copy of the application form and signed
signature page to the NEEF office before
Extensions of the deadlines will not be
considered except in the event of a major district-wide catastrophic event (covering
several days). Don’t take a chance – please submit early.
If you have questions, please email info@northeastfoundation.org.
Click here
for the project grant request form: NEEF
Project Grant Request Form 2010
Miscellaneous Items
The term “campus” is currently not meant to
be narrowly defined; for example, NEEF presently considers
Funding will be awarded on an annual
basis. Subsequent funding will require re-application with emphasis on
the prior year’s results as well as consideration of other current requests.