Developing Grants
What services does the WCPSS Grants Administration and Compliance Reporting Office provide?
The WCPSS Grants Administration and Compliance Reporting Office helps school-based and central office employees identify, prepare, and submit applications for grant programs designed to benefit WCPSS teacher and/or student groups in keeping with school system priorities. The office also advises successful WCPSS applicants on important aspects of managing grant programs. It is not a role of the office to help adults or students secure personal grants such as scholarships; teachers or students to submit entries to contests; or organizations to secure grants not in collaboration with WCPSS.
What grant programs does WCPSS operate?
In WCPSS, three major types of grants are defined:
- Entitlement
grants are ones that WCPSS is entitled to receive from
the state or federal government based upon a formula
by which funds are distributed to all eligible school
systems that properly complete an application for the
grant.
- Competitive
grants are ones that WCPSS competes with other school
systems or organizational entities. Awards are based
upon the interest of the funding agency and the merits
of the applicant's proposal, and not all eligible applicants
will receive a grant.
- Collaborative grants are ones that WCPSS enters into collaboration with one or more other organizational entities, and an agency other than WCPSS is the fiscal agent responsible for managing the grant.
How do I contact WCPSS Grants Administration and Compliance Reporting Office?
Dr. William Carruthers is Senior Director of Grants Administration and Compliance Reporting. The main telephone line for the Grants Administration Office is (919) 850-1798; the fax number is (919) 850-1804.