Grantwriting Tip of the Month

Stay Informed About Education Issues By Investing Just a Few Minutes Each Day

Are you a charter school operator who feels as though you have no peers to talk with about your specific school issues? Perhaps you live in a rural area, miles away from the nearest school. Or, perhaps you are one of many charter schools in your town, but you believe you are too busy to read publications relevant to charter schools or talk with other charter school operators.

Charter school owners, operators, and administrators are busy. Yet, it is crucial for our future success to stay up to date on NCLB regulations, new grant opportunities, new trends in curriculum and school operations, and a host of other issues pertaining to charter schools. So how do busy professionals do this? By using on-line resources that provide relevant information in a format that is quick and easy to read.

Over the past few years, many excellent resources have come online that provide information on charter school issues. Below is a list of newsletters, discussion listservs, and other such resources compiled by the National Charter School Clearinghouse. We encourage you to review and explore several of these resources and subscribe to 3-4 of the resources that you believe will help you and your school. In addition, please contact us at fir@aibt.edu with any other resources that you are using; or tell us about how a specific web site, newsletter, or listserv was especially helpful to you, and we will share that information with charter school operators throughout the nation. Together, we can help each other be even more successful!

1. http://www.districtadministration.com: A Free Daily Education-Related Newsletter. Go to the website to sign up for a free subscription.

2. http://charitychannel.com/gfr.shtml: Grants and Foundations Review, a free monthly newsletter that provides information about writing private and government grants. Go to the website to sign up for a free subscription.

3. http://charitychannel.com/epr.shtml: E-Philanthropy news, a free monthly newsletter that provides information about on-line fundraising issues. Go to the website to sign up for a free subscription.

4. http://charitychannel.com/resources/Forums/All_Public_Forums/CHARTERSCHOOLS/index.html: CharterSchools listserv, a professional-level discussion forum that covers all issues related to charter school operations, including government grant opportunities, best practices, accreditation, and fundraising. Go to the website to sign up and join this ongoing threaded conversation.

5. http://edreform.com/letter/mlmail.htm: The Center for Educational Reform monthly newsletter. Go to the website to read the most recent edition.

6. http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_education.jhtml: Current foundation and corporate grant opportunities for education issues. Put a link in your “Favorites” to check this resource every month.

7. http://fdncenter.org/newsletters/;jsessionid=5QBO51LCLOFOWP5QALRSGXD5AAAACI2F: Subscribe to a variety of fundraising-related newsletters that are delivered directly to your e-mail.

8. http://www.azgrants.com/home.cfm: Subscribe to a free monthly newsletter that provides information on grants for Arizona nonprofit organizations, including charter schools, and is delivered directly to your e-mail.

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