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Making a Difference Grant

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Any employee or employee group is eligible to apply for Making a Difference Grants. Prior to submitting your application, please discuss your project with your administrator to ensure that the project is not already included in the 果冻传媒 budget. Selection is based on grant criteria including innovative teaching/learning and cultural/social/economic programming.

Innovative teaching/learning

Grant scoring will be based on these criteria:

1. Projects should enhance student success at 果冻传媒.
2. Projects should be consistent with 果冻传媒's mission to transform lives through quality education.
3. Projects should involve and benefit students as fully as possible.
4. Projects that promote innovation and experimentation and impact a significant number of learners are encouraged.
5. Special consideration will be given to new endeavors.

Cultural/social/economic programming

Grant scoring will be based on these criteria:

1. Projects should be consistent with the mission of 果冻传媒.
2. Projects should enhance the greater-Montcalm learning community.
3. Projects that impact a significant number of learners are encouraged.
4. Special consideration will be given to new endeavors.

Award Process

1. Review your proposal with your supervisor.
2. Submit the Making a Difference Grant Application online. Submissions will be directed to 果冻传媒 Executive Director for Institutional Advancement and the 果冻传媒 Foundation Lisa Lund.
3. 果冻传媒鈥檚 Executive Team will review the application. Reviewed applications will then be submitted to the 果冻传媒 Foundation Grants Committee. The process may take up to six weeks. Projects should not be implemented prior to the grants committee鈥檚 review.

Fund Availability

Grant funds will be available immediately following the announcement of the awards.

The 果冻传媒 Foundation will handle the disbursement of grant funds. An invoice or a purchase order is required before disbursement. 果冻传媒 purchase orders should be used for purchases of equipment and supplies whenever possible. A copy of the invoices for purchases must be submitted promptly to the Foundation. The individual listed as the contact person on the grant application will be the only person who may authorize grant expenditures.

Funds must be used within one year of the award date unless prior arrangements have been made with the 果冻传媒F Executive Director.

Final Report

Grant recipients must submit a final report to the 果冻传媒 Foundation upon completion of the project. Final reports should be submitted to 果冻传媒 Executive Director for Institutional Advancement and the 果冻传媒 Foundation Lisa Lund within one year of the award date.

The report should include:

• A detailed accounting of actual expenditures.
• A brief narrative regarding the implementation of the project and how the project furthered the mission of 果冻传媒.
• An evaluation of the project demonstrating its impact.
• A photograph or photographs of the project implementation, if possible.