Funding Our Partnership
How can you fund our design and professional learning services?
Districts and schools fund our design and professional learning services from various federal, state, and local funding sources.
Once designed and established, one of the Opportunity Culture® initiative’s key principles is to ensure that educator pay is funded within regular budgets. Your district will receive an excellent return on investment from our services.
Need additional funding to launch Opportunity Culture® design? We suggest first using Candid’s Foundation Directory to explore funding options for free via one of their community partners by using this search tool; you may also contact us to explore options. Below is a list of sources that current clients use to fund our technical assistance and professional learning services:
Funding Sources
Federal Funding
- District-controlled Title I funds, including school improvement funds
- District-controlled Title II funds
- District-controlled IDEA funds
(if special education is part of your district’s vision for Opportunity Culture use; learn how some districts use the model to support special education here) - Federal grants for teacher professional learning, teacher retention, teacher pipeline development (e.g., SEED, TQP, TSL)
- School-controlled Title I funds. Example: A district’s schools include a component for design and implementation services in their school sustainability plans, so each school contributes to a portion of the overall service contract
State Funding
- State grants for:
- teacher professional learning
- advanced teaching roles
- strategic and innovative staffing
- teacher retention
- teacher pipeline development
- school improvement
- Funding for implementation of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum
- If an eligible use is planning and providing support for teachers in implementation
- Grants for tutoring
- If eligible uses include designing tutoring programs
- Flexible funding for:
- Innovation
- School improvement/turnaround
Local Funding & Philanthropy
- District-controlled local funds
- Creative use of vacancies in central office: Districts can use unfilled vacancies to fund design support
- Local or private philanthropic funders
Contact us to explore options. Or, you may be able to access Candid’s Foundation Directory free via one of their community partners using this search tool.
For more information, please contact us!