2021 Grant Application Window Dates Announced

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The 2021 Waukesha Education Foundation, Inc. Grant Window will open for applications on Monday, February 15 on the grant page of our website. (Please note the application will not be available until that time.) We are always amazed by the wonderful grant applications that are submitted by SDW Staff. 

Each year, the Waukesha Education Foundation, Inc. (known internally as "WEF") is pleased to support educators in our District with grants to fund innovative ideas and programs. These grants are typically awarded in the late spring, with the expectation that projects will be completed during the following school year. Since our inception in 2004, the Waukesha Education Foundation, Inc has awarded more than $330,000 to deserving educators throughout our District. We are looking forward to increasing that total this year! 

You can visit our website to learn more about the great work that we do or visit our Grant page now to learn more about previous awards. While we don't know yet the exact amount we will have available to give this year (it is dependent on earnings in our endowment,) we wanted to share these dates with you so that you can start thinking about projects or initiatives that may benefit from a grant, and start talking to your principal and colleagues. Please be sure to review our granting guidelines. 

SAVE THE DATE: We will be hosting an interactive & virtual Grant Writing workshop (similar to what is normally presented at Waukesha One) on 2/22/21 at 6pm via ZOOM. We encourage new and experienced grant seekers to attend and receive some helpful tips! It will be presented by our experienced grant writer and Board President, Melissa Baxter. While the interactive workshop will be best attended live so that you may ask questions, we will record it for those that want to be there, but cannot attend. Please watch your emails and our website for further details. 

The grant application window will CLOSE at 11:59pm on 4/9/21. 

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