GOSA and the Innovation Fund Foundation (IFF) today announced six award winners for the Innovation Summit Pilot Grant. This grant opportunity provides funding to traditional public schools, charter schools, school districts, non-profit organizations, colleges, universities, and 2- or 3-star Quality Rated Early Childcare Centers. Award winners attended the 2018 Innovation Summit and used ideas and concepts they learned at the summit to develop their innovative proposals.

Funding for all Innovation Summit Pilot Grants is made possible through the generous donations to the Qualified Education Donation Tax Credit; and is subject to available funds pursuant to O.C.G.A, §48-7-29.21.

Projects must align with one of the four Innovation Fund priority areas: applied learning with a focus on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education, blended and personalized learning, teacher and leader development, and birth to age eight language and literacy development. 

Grantees will evaluate the impact of the programs and submit their findings to GOSA and the IFF at the end of the grant period.

The grant award winners and their respective programs are listed below:

Birth to Age Eight Language & Literacy Development

Barrow County School System
Community Helpers at the Public Library
 

Brantley County School System
Brantley County Kindergarten Literacy and Readiness Initiative 
 

Lee County Family Connection

Books for Kids Book Club

New Hope Elementary School

Henry County Schools

Artists Reading Beyond the Text

Blended & Personalized Learning

Brantley County Middle School

Brantley County School System

Flying Further

Teacher & Leader Development

CDF Action

All About Our Children: Clarkston

Read Download this pdf file. summaries of the winning proposals.

About the Innovation Summit Pilot Grant

The Innovation Summit Pilot Grant offers LEAs, charter schools, traditional public schools, non-profit organizations, colleges/universities, RESAs, and 2- or 3-star rated Early Childcare Centers between $1,000 and $7,000 to implement an innovative project. All projects directly relate to a root cause of a challenging issue in an Early Childcare Center or a Kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) setting. An innovative project solves an existing problem in an inventive way and has the potential to have a large and lasting impact on the academic environment. This grant opportunity was available exclusively to 2018 Innovation Summit attendees and reflected an idea for a small-scale pilot that incorporated concepts learned at the Summit. The Innovation Summit Pilot grant is made possible by the Innovation Fund Foundation and is funded with donations from the Qualified Education Tax Credit.