Grants For Safe Schools
Empowering safer schools through community leadership and support.
Join Local Leaders in Supporting the Greenlights Grant Initiative for Enhanced School Safety
Promoting safer schools requires a collective effort from local elected and community leaders to spread the word about the availability of federal school safety and mental health grants, aimed at increasing support for our school districts.
Local community leaders and elected officials are invited to endorse the Grants For Safe Schools initiative by registering below. Additionally, they can utilize the provided sample proclamation to enact local resolutions supporting this initiative within their communities.
Empowering All School Districts with the Greenlights Grant Initiative
Applying for, and winning, federal grants is complex, expensive, and intimidating. Completing a federal grant application can take up to 100 hours and cost as much as $50,000 to hire a professional grant writer. Because of the expense and time needed, school districts with limited resources and staff, often rural school districts or those in less affluent areas, are at a severe disadvantage in securing federal funding.
The Greenlights Grant Initiative aims to address these hurdles head-on. By raising awareness of available school safety grants, providing school districts with essential resources and guidance, and advocating for fair and sustained federal funding, the initiative strives to level the playing field and ensure all schools have access to the necessary funds for school safety measures.
Cities that have issued local Proclamations to promote the initiative for schools to access existing Federal funds for school safety:
Join local leaders in supporting the Greenlights Grant Initiative to protect our children.
GRANTS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS DAY
WHEREAS, in the wake of the Uvalde tragedy, parents asked lawmakers to do one thing – “make their lives matter”; and,
WHEREAS, lawmakers came together to pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), providing billions of dollars in grants for school districts to afford security upgrades, mental health services, and other common-sense programs to make schools safer; and
WHEREAS, school districts with limited resources and staff are unfairly disadvantaged in the challenge of securing sorely needed federal funding; and
WHEREAS, the Greenlights Grant Initiative focuses on raising awareness about school safety grants, offering school districts resources and tools for successful applications, and ensuring continuous and more equitable federal funding for school safety; and
WHEREAS, lacking resources to hire a professional grant writer, school districts with limited resources and staff, often rural school districts or those in less affluent areas, are disadvantaged in the challenge of securing sorely needed federal funding; and
WHEREAS, the Greenlights Grant Initiative supports school districts in navigating the grant application process, through webinars, guidebooks, how-tos, tutorials, and other tools; and
WHEREAS, [INSERT CITY/TOWN/COUNTY] leaders can best serve our community by connecting our school districts with the Greenlights Grant Initiative connecting school districts to billions of dollars of available federal funding to promote school safety;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, [NAME], [INSERT INFORMATION], do hereby proclaim [DATE] as Grants for Safe Schools Day
in support of the Greenlights Grant Initiative and the important work it undertakes to help every school district keep our students safe.
Mayoral Proclamations
