Choices Planner: Funding Ideas

About the Grant Writing Success Guide
Bridges products help your school achieve many education outcomes. Funding is available through a variety of sources to help districts, schools and other local education agencies create, equip and improve their programs — in many cases, this funding can pay for essential products from Bridges.

To help you complete your grant applications, we have described how our products meet requirements of several major funding programs.

You can take text directly from these PDF files and use it in your application form as-is or with changes to suit your exact situation. In each of these documents, the text most suitable for "cutting and pasting" is indicated by a box with a dashed border.

Begin with the Introduction for an overview of applying for funding (grants, in particular).

Next, choose from the funding sources identified below to see how this product is best described in your successful funding request.

Grant Writing Success Guide

Introduction
PDF formatPDF - 40 KB - 4 pages

21st Century Community Learning Centers Program
(Title IV Part B)

PDF formatPDF - 51 KB - 5 page

Funding Sources

Our industry-leading products align with numerous state and federal legislation, and may qualify for purchase with a wide variety of funds. Such funds may include:

  • Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
  • GEAR UP/TRIO
  • Title I-A (School Improvement)
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • Title II, Part D (State and Local Technology Grants)
  • Title V-A (Innovative Programs)
  • Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  • Elementary/Secondary School Counseling fund
  • State-Based funds
  • Lender/Guarantor (student loan organizations)
  • NCLB (Enhancing Education Through Technology)