The 2025-26 Grant cycle -- Creative Classroom Grant application will open October 18th, 2024, and will close on February 24th, 2025.
PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM
The Creative Classroom Grants program was established to promote educational excellence and creative instruction in our region’s public schools. Imagine. Innovate. Inspire. This is the focus of the VAE and this should be the focus of your grant application. We are looking to fund new and innovative ideas.
2024-25 Creative Classroom Grant Winners have all received your grant package's, please proceed as outlined in your original grant application and order your grant supplies as soon as possible. Remember to pass the receipts along to your school bookkeeper. They will in then submit them to the central office who will request payment from VAE. Should you have questions please call Tina Kiracofe at 540-943-0029.
APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY:
All teachers and staff who have direct instructional responsibility for students (including librarians and guidance counselors) in grades Pre K‐12 in the public schools in the cities of Staunton and Waynesboro and the County of Augusta are eligible to apply. Teachers’ aides, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and administrators are NOT eligible to be grant applicants. Projects must be designed, written and implemented by the designated classroom teacher or other professional instructional individual.
Each individual will only be allowed to submit and potentially be awarded two (2) grants for funding consideration in each year.
Do you have a creative idea for a classroom project? Just need a way to fund it?? APPLY TODAY!!
All applications will be reviewed in a blind process, the reader will have no information pertaining to the writer, district, or school. Applications will be graded solely on content, creativity, and merit.
Are you a 1st time applicant? Click below on the previous Grant Workshops links to hear grant writing tips and suggestions from previous CCG winners and grant evaluators.
Grants of up to $2,000 are available for special teaching/enrichment projects designed for:
· Implementation in an individual classroom or with a special student group.
· Implementation in multiple classrooms as a departmental, interdepartmental, or school-wide project.
· Individual, departmental, or school-wide projects with a particular emphasis on the understanding and use of computer hardware, software, or other technology resources.
· Important: Due to the number of excellent grant requests submitted in the previous year, each individual will only be allowed to submit 2 grants for funding consideration each year.
Click Here For 2015 Grant Workshop.
Click Here For 2017 Grant Workshop.
Click Here For GRANT APPLICATION.
Click Here For CCG Information And Instructions.
Current 2024-25 CCG grant winners will need to submit a year end project evaluation and financial report by April 15, 2025.
Reports may be submitted electronically to VAE at vae@lumos.net or sent to VAE, P.O. Box 515, Fishersville, VA 22939. All grant recipients are responsible for submitting a written evaluation of the project and final budget account, including receipts for expenses by April 15, 2024, or upon conclusion of the project if earlier. Please see the evaluation form below. Any allocated grant funds more than $25 which have not been spent and documented by April 15, 2024, must be returned to VAE with the final evaluation and budget report.
Click here for CCG FINAL PROJECT EVALUATION and FINANCIAL REPORT.
Grant recipients are expected to give recognition to VAE in any publication, in any materials related to the project, and in any publicity or media coverage of the project. Recipients are expected to share the results of their projects with others in educational settings and/or in VAE sponsored events.
Photos and thank you notes from students are appreciated throughout the year. They are used in our acknowledgement and thank you letters sent to donors who make the CCG program possible. (The preferred format for photos is via email.) Please have students sign first name only with no dates. Thank you, notes/cards can be sent to VAE – P.O. Box 515, Fishersville, VA 22939.
Congratulations to the 2024-25 Creative Classroom Grant Winners! Thank you, to everyone who submitted a completed application.
A complete list of 2024-2025 classroom grant winners are here!
NTELOS Foundation - Special Grant
VAE is excited to announce that we were one of eighteen non-profit organizations to receive a special one-time only grant facilitated through the Community foundation. This grant was chosen by several former NTELOS and Lumos Networks executives. This grant is a financial boost to VAE and will allow us to serve the needs in our community today while remaining financially sustainable to address needs for many years to come.
The VAE grant from the NTELOS foundation is gifted in the name of Executive Leader, Carl Rosberg, and is specifically designated for funding classroom grants. In addition to having a storied career in the telecommunications industry, Carl continues to positively impact the community through his ongoing leadership and philanthropic focus. Carl is instrumental both in early works of VAE and defining our ongoing educational mission.
VAE receives NTELOS Foundation grant gifted in the name of Executive Leader, Carl Rosberg