The GEF accomplishes its mission through its grant programs, which provide educators with exceptional tools for teaching.

Community Mini-Grants

The Granby Education Foundation's Community Mini-Grant Program provides fiscal support for innovative and creative projects that will increase knowledge and skills, expand perspectives and enrich understanding.

Typical awards range from $500 to $2500. Proposals are due on March 15 and October 15 of each year.

Mini-Grant Guidelines
Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of the Granby Education Foundation's board of directors. Notification will be made within sixty days of each deadline. For schoolteachers, especially, this means you must plan ahead. March applications can be applied to summer and fall programming; and October applications can be applied to winter and spring programming.

Selection Criteria:
The Granby Education Foundation funds programs that:
· · Illustrate innovation and creativity;
· · Enrich educational offerings; and
· · Offer unique learning opportunities.
In addition, mini-grant proposals should:
· · Have a clearly defined action plan;
· · Provide appropriate evaluation criteria; and
· · Demonstrate breadth of impact.

Application information

The GEF mini-grant program awards financial support to area educators inside and outside the school system twice annually. The group strongly encourages submissions from the entire community .

Arts Endowment Grants

The Granby Education Foundation is working to build a permanent arts endowment in order to fund programming initiatives in the arts on an annual basis. The Endowment, through which the Foundation plans to make $10,000 available annually for funding high-quality arts events, is approaching its goal of $200,000 in cash and pledges.