Mini Grant Process & Application
BVAPT Mission Statement
The mission of the BVAPT is to provide community-building events, enhance educational, classroom and extracurricular programs for the benefit of students, teachers and school staff, and raise funds to make this possible.
Purpose of Mini Grants
The purposes of these grants are to supply funds to encourage imaginative and creative teaching in accordance to the BVAPT mission.
Who should apply?
Any teacher, BVAPT Board Member, Specialist or Classified Staff of the BVUSD School District.
Size of Grants
The maximum benefit of Mini Grants is capped at $600.
Funding Criteria
- No portion of grant monies can be used to supplement salaries for currently contractually employed Teachers/Aides/Classified/Specialists.
- Projects must be completed by the end of the fiscal school year of the year the grant was awarded.
- Proposals should be creative, experiential, innovative and directly benefit students in support of the BVAPT mission.
Mini Grant Procedures
- Please submit proposal on BVAPT website.
- Hard (paper) copies upon request.
- Strawberry, Yulupa & District Administration will review the proposals first. After administration review, the BVAPT Board will select grant awardees in accordance with the specified funding criteria, available funds and alignment with our mission statement.
- If approved, submit invoice, bid, website or other details of business/individual of vendor to Sonali at the BVUSD District Office for payment.
- BVAPT will reimburse the BVUSD.
Note: Teachers are allowed to combine/lump multiple grant proposals together (for example, the 2nd grade team of teachers can combo multiple mini-grant proposal amounts into one).
Upon Project Completion
After completion of mini-grant project, please email our Mini Grants Coordinator and let us know how it went with photos!