Application Process

How do you get started?

Applying for a grant is simple and straightforward. First, meet with your principal to discuss your grant idea. Once you have thought it through with your principal and colleagues, start writing your application. (If you are at an earlier stage than writing an application, feel free to use the Idea Generator link form on this page to discuss your idea with an LSF board member.) To make it easier to collaborate with colleagues, get signatures, and submit, grant applications are available as a Google Doc. Once completed and approved by your principal and Rob Ford (when applicable), finished applications may be shared electronically through Google Docs, submitted in LSF grant boxes in school offices, personally delivered to any LSF Trustee, or mailed to Lincoln School Foundation, PO Box 256, Lincoln, MA 01773.

Grants may be submitted outside of the LSF grant cycle window at any time. This is then called an Out-of-Cycle grant.

What's the process?

Your Out-of-Cycle grant will be reviewed by the LSF Board during our board meetings which are held the first Wednesday of the month. You will notified shortly after the meeting. Grants for summer and work for the following school year will be reviewed by the board during our annual review session held in May. You will be assigned a Board Liaison to help answer any questions during the grant review process. Grants are typically awarded by June. If you receive a grant award, you will be asked to submit and send a letter to the families of children who benefited from the grant, highlighting the grant, its outcomes and findings/benefits. 

If you would like to speak with an LSF Board member about your grant idea, please email us at grants@lincolnschoolfoundation.org