Deadline: 1-Apr-21
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation has announced a call for proposals for the Community Grants for Educational Success to improve the educational achievement of under-performing children and youth from the region.
Educational Success encourages growth through opportunities for all students to excel in their educational pursuits and meet the region’s current and future workforce demands.
The Foundation supports innovative programs that improve the academic achievement of the region’s public school students in the following areas:
- Projects that prepare children, academically and/or socio-emotionally, to succeed in kindergarten.
- Programs that prevent middle and high school students from dropping out of school.
- After-school time projects have been proven successful at increasing the likelihood of students earning advanced or standard diplomas within four years of entering high school.
- Programs that help students successfully transition from high school into collegiate education or career-based certificate programs after graduation.
Outcomes
Grant proposals should address one or more of the following outcomes:
- Young children meet age-appropriate developmental milestones.
- Children succeed in kindergarten and are promoted to first grade.
- The number of quality-rated center-based or home-based pre-school facilities increases.
- Public school students succeed academically and are promoted to the next grade on time.
- The drop-out rate for public school students decreases.
- Public school students graduate from high school on-time.
- Public high school graduates enroll in collegiate education or career-based certificates after graduation.
Eligibility Criteria
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation welcomes grant applications from 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity organizations serving residents of South Hampton Roads, including those in:
- Chesapeake;
- Eastern Shore of Virginia (Accomack and Northampton counties);
- Franklin;
- Isle of Wight County;
- Norfolk;
- Portsmouth;
- Suffolk;
- Virginia Beach.
For more information, visit https://hamptonroadscf.org/nonprofits/apply-for-a-grant/community-grants