We are excited to introduce you to Know Greater Heroes a 501(C)3 not-for-profit organization - dedicated to helping kids reach their full potential. Know Greater Heroes is offering Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) and other eligible organizations professional grant writing services at no cost in order to facilitate efforts to get the funding for training and curriculum that will help you gain better outcomes for your at-risk students.
Within the next few weeks, at least three major grant opportunities are available for schools
and other groups from two federal agencies. A summary description of each follows:
1. Strategic Enhancement to Mentoring Programs - Maximum grant amount: $500,000
2. Safe and Drug Free Schools Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse - $250,000—$450,000.
3. Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative - Maximum grant amount: $625,000
Who is Know Greater Heroes?
Know Greater Heroes is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization formed in 2006. Its MISSION –
to empower communities with an engaging program that awakens the hero within each of us,
thereby assisting all to succeed brilliantly through life's challenges
(www.KnowGreaterHeroes.org).
Never in the history of the world, has there been a more profound need for heroes – men and
women educated in integrity and empowered to tackle society’s most pressing issues - in
every community, home, school, and boardroom. Know Greater Heroes addresses this
problem. It provides and cultivates the grounds in which heroes can grow. It is dedicated to
assist LEA’s and other Non-Profits in the funding for training and curriculum of the evidence-
based WhyTry Program.
What is WhyTry?
The WhyTry Program is a simply, hands-on curriculum which helps youth overcome their
challenges and improve outcomes in the areas of truancy, behavior, and academics.
WhyTry teaches critical social and emotional principles to youth (K-12) using a series of ten
pictures (visual analogies) which each teach a principal, such as resisting peer-pressure, or
that decisions have consequences. The visual components are then reinforced by music and
physical activities. The major learning styles—visual, auditory, and body-kinesthetic—are
all addressed.
The WhyTry Program is now in use in over 10,000 schools, mental health
facilities, and correctional facilities in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. It has now been
demonstrated in a variety of research settings to reduce truancy, improve academic success,
and increase graduation rates. (For a summary of these research findings, go to
http://www.whytry.org/research.php)
What Services are Being Offered to Assist You in Getting a Grant?
Know Greater Heroes' professional grant writer has over 20 years of experience in writing
that have been awarded grants in the tens of millions of dollars. The grant writer will work
with you in gathering the information needed for stating your need for a grant that will benefit
your students. Our grant writer will then develop a proposal that has the best chance of
winning a grant; the proposal will include a request for funds to sub-contract with WhyTry for
the prevention/ intervention component of your grant. A grant will make it possible for you
to arrange for WhyTry’s evidence-based training program that has been effective in helping
youth to overcome risk factors and negative behaviors in order to succeed in school…and in
life.
Benefits of WhyTry Training:
• Big Picture - Benefits for Youth
- Increase graduation rate
- Improve academic success
- Decrease dropout rate
- Reduce truancy
- Remediate social & emotional deficits
• Benefits for Program Administrators and Staff
- Increase confidence with the WhyTry Program
- Get detailed insight into each Visual Analogy
- See how multi-sensory components fit together
- Understand different delivery modes
- Create common intervention framework
- Establish a common language with all stakeholders
- Motivate and reinvigorate your staff & community
- Continuing Education Units (Where available) Who should get WhyTry Training:
What Will WhyTry Provide After the Grant is Awarded?
Each stake holder that you identify as a potential trainee will have the opportunity to be
professionally trained, educated and collaborated with - so that the education of each child in
your proposed program will be individualized and tailored to the child’s learning strengths
and differences.
The WhyTry Program will create a common intervention framework and language for staff
and community members, in order that all will use the same principles and strategies to do
what is necessary to establish relationships, relevancy, and resilience.
WhyTry’s training, curriculum and equipment elements are flexible enough to make it
possible for an organization of any size or capacity to be successful. WhyTry’s three-part
training consists of critical elements and options for each part:
1. Facilitator Training: Two-day training in WhyTry curriculum and its use. Critical: Complete Curriculum – PowerPoint, WhyTry Music, Activities, etc.
Optional:
• Equipment: Laptop, Sound System (IPod and Speakers), LCD Projector
• Substitute reimbursement for training to district
2. Hands-on Training: Two-day training in Experiential Learning Critical: Hands-on Kits containing manual, visual aids and other materials
Optional:
• Substitute reimbursement for training to school districts
3. Advanced Training: One day training in advanced techniques & implementation Optional:
• Substitute Reimbursement
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR APPLYING FOR THESE GRANTS!
CONTACT US TODAY!
For Strategic Enhancement to Mentoring Programs: No later than
March 23For Safe and Drug Free Schools Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse: No later than
March 25For Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative: No later than
April 6We look forward to assisting you. For more information,
Call Chris Brown at 801-360-5552 or email him at chris.brown@knowgreaterheroes.org
Description of the listed Grants:Strategic Enhancement to Mentoring ProgramsCFDA Number 16.726
Deadline: April 14
Maximum grant amount:
$500,000Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Purpose of Program: Support qualified, established mentoring programs in implementation of strategies to enhance capabilities to more effectively mentor at-risk youth. Quality mentoring is a promising delinquency prevention technique, and certain program characteristics and elements are moderators of its effectiveness. This solicitation invites eligible applicants to propose evidence-based enhancements that are among these moderators of program effectiveness. The three strategies include: (1) involving the parents in activities or services, (2) providing structured activities and programs for the mentoring matches, and (3) developing and implementing on-going training and support for mentors.
Who may apply: Public agencies (including state agencies, units of local government, public school systems, universities and colleges, federally-recognized Indian tribal governments, private organizations (including faith-based, tribal and community organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher learning).
Required Elements: Qualified mentoring programs involve a structured relationship between an adult, compensated or voluntary, and one or more youth, with one-on-one or group-mentoring. Applicants must:
• Identify the primary program strategy to enhance mentoring services as one of the following:
- Involving the parents of mentoring participants in program activities or providing or coordinating services for them.
- Adding or enhancing the structured activities for the mentor and mentoring participant.
- Adding or enhancing the ongoing training available to mentors.
Safe and Drug Free Schools Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse
CFDA Number 84.184A
Deadline: April 16
Estimated Range of Awards: $250,000—$450,000.
Agency: Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, U.S. Dept. of Education
Purpose of Program: This program provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop and implement innovative and effective programs to reduce alcohol abuse in
secondary schools.
Who May Apply: LEAs, including charter schools that are considered LEAs under State law.
Applications from rural and low-income applicants will be read and scored separately and up to 25 percent of the available funds will be reserved for awards to these LEAs.
Required Elements: A project must develop and implement innovative and effective programs to reduce alcohol abuse in secondary schools. Three measures have been developed for evaluating the overall effectiveness of the Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse program. They are: (1) The percentage of grantees whose target students show a measurable decrease in binge drinking; (2) the percentage of grantees that show a measurable increase in the percentage of target students who believe that alcohol abuse is harmful to their health; and (3) the percentage of grantees that show a measurable increase in the percentage of target students who disapprove of alcohol abuse.
Second Chance Act Juvenile Mentoring Initiative
CFDA Number: 16.726
Deadline: April 27
Maximum grant amount: $625,000
Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Purpose of Program: Provide employment assistance, substance abuse treatment, housing, family programming, mentoring, victims’ support, and other services to help adult and juvenile ex-offenders make a successful transition from incarceration to the community. In support of this goal, OJJDP will provide grants to support mentoring and other transitional services essential to reintegrating juvenile offenders into their communities. The grants will be used to mentor juvenile offenders during confinement, through transition back to the community, and post-release; to provide transitional services to assist them in their reintegration into the community; and to support training in offender and victims issues.
Who may apply: Public agencies, including state agencies, units of local government (including federally-recognized Indian tribal governments), public universities and colleges (including tribal institutions of higher education), and private, nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, tribal, and community organizations).
Required Elements: Applicants must propose services to help adult and juvenile ex-offenders make a successful transition from incarceration to the community. In support of this goal, OJJDP will provide grants to support mentoring and other transitional services essential to reintegrating juvenile offenders into their communities. The grants will be used to mentor juvenile offenders during confinement, through transition back to the community, and post-release; to provide transitional services to assist them in their reintegration into the community; and to support training in offender and victims issues. Eligible applicants who propose to provide direct services to youth must not include youth who are age 18 or older in the population to be served.
Joint applications from two or more eligible applicants are welcome; however, one applicant must be clearly indicated as the primary applicant (for correspondence, award, and management purposes) and the others indicated as co-applicants.
