• Connectedness Critical to Safe Schools
• Students Best Positioned to Improve School Climate
• Reports and Articles
• Research Supports SSA Program
• What Do Suspensions Cost?
• Principles in Practice
• Results of Safe School Ambassadors Program
• Funding Opportunities

Bystander Mobilization

Why common strategies typically fail, and the essential ingredient in ones that work. More

Asset-Building Power

Of the 40 Developmental Assets youth need to succeed in school and life, the SSA program reinforces at least 28. More

Foundation and Corporate Funding

Many corporations and foundations offer funding for violence prevention and education programs. To learn more, please visit each organization’s website.

• Shutterfly Foundation
Description: Shutterfly’s corporate vision seeks to make the world a better place by helping people share life’s joy. As such, we created the Shutterfly Foundation to help the Company make positive, meaningful contributions in our community. Through our grant making program, we hope to service and strengthen our connection to communities where we have operations. Shutterfly Foundation will provide grants to local non-profit organizations that align with our goal to support programs serving children’s education and family wellness.
Program Areas: Focus on academic and cultural enrichment for children in underserved populations. Provide family focused support and mentoring services
Recipients: Be a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. Provide services to children and youth ages pre-kindergarten through 12th grade with a priority to meeting the needs of underserved populations.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: June 1, 2011. Visit website
Average Amount: $10,000
Location:San Mateo, Santa Clara Counties in California, Mecklenburg County, in North Carolina, and Maricopa County, in Arizona

• Red Robin Foundation
Description: The Red Robin Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) public charity. The exempt purpose of the Foundation is to provide donors the opportunity to be kind to their neighbors and share in our Unbridled spirit through our Giving Fund, Scholarship Fund, U-ACT Program and Community Outreach Program. The primary purpose of the Red Robin Foundation Giving Fund is to provide assistance to Red Robin Team Members who have a sudden financial emergency due to a catastrophic event or emergency hardship.
Program Areas: The goal of the Red Robin Foundation U-ACT Champion Program is to help foster and create a sense of neighborliness inside and outside of the school. U-ACT which stands for Unbridled Acts, or random acts of kindness, is a character-building initiative specifically for middle and junior high schools with grades 6-8, which aims to inspire and energize students about the value of being kind to others. Throughout the school year, participating schools are asked to share Red Robin’s Unbridled culture with their students by participating in program that promote kindness. At the end of the year, schools are asked to submit a program binder outlining their efforts during the school year for a chance to earn a grant anywhere from $1,200-$15,000!
Recipients: Schools across the country.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Visit website
Average Amount: $1,200-$15,000
Location:Schools across the country.

• The LEGO Children’s Fund
Description: The LEGO Children’s Fund will provide quarterly grants for programs, either in part or in total, with a special interest paid to collaborative efforts and in providing matching funds to leverage new dollars into the receiving organization. We will give priority consideration to programs that both meet our goals and are supported in volunteer time and effort by our employees.
Program Areas: Early childhood education and development that is directly related to creativity; technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities. The LEGO Children’s Fund will consider requests for matching funds for qualifying projects or qualifying organizations that support the Fund’s mission statement.
Recipients: Educational organizations-USC 26 § 170 (C) and 501(c)(3) organizations
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Visit website
Average Amount: $500 and $5,000
Location: The main interests are local, but there are no restrictions based on geography. The LEGO Children’s Fund supports local and national programs in the United States.  Applications from Connecticut and Western Massachusetts may be given preferential consideration, as this is where we have established North American headquarters and where our employees live, but applications from other geographical areas will not be excluded.

• The Allstate Foundation
Description: We are committed to programs that bring tolerance, inclusion, and value to people of all backgrounds regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age or physical challenges.
Program Areas: This foundation supports programs for safe and vital communities. Tolerance, Inclusion, and Diversity. Our Tolerance, Inclusion, and Diversity funding priorities are: 1) Teaching tolerance to youth. Fostering a generation free of bias and intolerance; 2) Alleviating discrimination: Encouraging communities to be free of prejudice.
Recipients:Visit website
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Visit website
Average Amount: See Grant Guidelines
Location:Visit website

• The Annenberg Foundation
Description: Eighteen locally designed Challenge projects operated in 35 states, funding 2,400 public schools that served more than 1.5 million students and 80,000 teachers. Over 1,600 businesses, foundations, colleges, and universities, and individuals contributed $600 million in private matching funds. Each Challenge project fit unique local conditions and was planned collaboratively by educators, foundation officers, and community, civic, and business leaders.
Program Areas: Grants are provided to advance public well-being through education and youth development, civic and community, and health and human services.
Recipients:Visit website
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Visit website
Average Amount: $1 million to $53 million
Location:Visit website

• Braitmayer Foundation
Description: The Foundation is interested in proposals utilizing innovative practices in K-12 education throughout the United States.
Program Areas: Of particular interest are: 1) Curricular and school reform initiatives. 2) Preparation of and professional development opportunities for teachers, particularly those which encourage people of high ability and diverse background to enter and remain in K-12 teaching.
Recipients:
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Proposals (10K) and Letters of Inquiry (35K) Due: March 15th, 2011. Notification to Applicants Requesting 10K: August 1st, 2011. Notification to Applicants Requesting 35K: March 15th, 2012. 
Average Amount: Visit website
Location:Visit website

• The Charles Lafitte Foundation
Description: The foundation focuses on child abuse, literacy, educational advancement, after-school programs, and the general well-being of children. 
Program Areas: The Foundation focuses on four program areas: children’s advocacy, education, medical research and initiatives, and the arts.
Recipients:Certified 501(c)(3) organizations.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: CLF accepts funding requests throughout the year. The Board meets and issues grants several times annually. CLF streamlines the application process as much as possible. To that end, we do not provide an application form so an organization can shape its own presentation, expressing its personality and spirit. To save time for both parties, we ask for an initial brief summary via email followed by a more detailed application only if CLF requests it. Email a short letter, providing a succinct overview of the organization and the specific request, along with website and full contact information. CLF will respond if it would like more information or a full proposal.
Average Amount: Visit website
Location:Visit website

• The Lawrence Foundation
Description: The Foundation makes both program and operating grants.
Program Areas: The foundation is focused on making grants to support environmental, education, human services and other causes although our interests are fairly diverse and may lead us into other areas on an occasional basis.
Recipients:Nonprofit organizations that qualify for public charity status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or public schools and libraries are eligible for contributions or grants.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Grants are awarded twice a year. Grant applications are open to any organization that wishes to be considered for a grant that meets the grant guidelines.
Average Amount: Visit website
Location:No geographic restrictions.

• Sprint Ahead for Education Grant Program
Description: Sprint remains committed to supporting young people across the country, and we look forward to providing programs that do just that in 2011. Over the past three years, the Sprint Character Education Program has provided more than $1.5 million in Sprint Foundation grants to schools and districts nationwide, allowing them to offer creative and effective character-education curriculum. Though we will not conduct this program again in 2011, we sincerely appreciate the interest that educators across the country have shown and we congratulate them on their continuing success. Additional details about other Sprint grant programs will be shared in 2011.
Program Areas: Sprint Character Education Grant Program: The Foundation is committed to supporting K-12 education, particularly those initiatives that focus on character education. In 2008, the Sprint Foundation launched a national education grant program and awarded more than $607 thousand in grant funding. The Sprint Character Education Grant Program promotes leadership, youth volunteerism, character education and school pride.
Recipients:Schools and districts nationwide.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Visit website.
Average Amount: Visit website.
Location:Nationwide.

• Teammates for Kids Foundation
Description: The Teammates for Kids Foundation accepts proposals for grants from nonprofit organizations that specialize in working with children. Grants from the Foundation support the on-going work of operating organizations that help needy children in the areas of health, education and inner-city services.
Program Areas: Education: a) Grants that encourage educational achievement in areas of documented weakness. b) Grants that promote advanced learning opportunities to gifted children who would otherwise lack the resources necessary to pursue dreams and talents. c) Grants that expose children to learning opportunities they would otherwise not experience due to insufficient financial resources.
Recipients:a) Be a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service. b) Have a record of outstanding service in effectively and efficiently delivering programs and services that improve the lives of needy children. c) Serve children’s needs in the areas of Health, Education or providing Inner-city services. d) Deliver services which impact the lives of children, both short and long-term. e) Ensure that 100% of grant monies received from the Teammates for Kids. f) Foundation are used for the exclusive benefit of children. g) The foundation contributes financial resources to selected nonprofit organizations that effectively serve and benefit children.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Visit website
Average Amount: Visit website
Location:Visit website
http://teammatesforkids.com/PDF/GrantQualify.pdf
• Jimmy Buffett’s SFC Charitable Foundation.
Description: Grants are awarded to programs that are concerned with the health, education and protection of children and their families, fostering self-esteem and self-sufficiency, nonviolence and creative problem solving.
Eligibility:  Nonprofits.
Deadline & Criteria:  Rolling.
Average Amount: Multiple awards ranging from $500 to $10,000 each.
Location: National

• J. K. Mullen Foundation
Description: Grants are limited to the Denver, CO, metropolitan area. No support for taxpayer-supported organizations. No grants to individuals. This foundations focus is on the poor and disadvantaged members of our society, victims of family and substance abuse, the mentally challenged, physically impaired, and others whose lives are outside the mainstream. Education is also of interest.
Program Areas: At-Risk/Character, Disabilities, Family Services, General Education, Health/PE, Math, Reading, Science/Environmental, Social Studies.
Recipients: Public School, Private/Charter School, Higher Education, Faith-based, Other.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: September 1
Total Amount: $361,000
Average Amount: $250 - $67,000
Availability: Colorado

• OMNOVA Solutions Foundation
Description: Giving primarily in areas of company operations in GA, MA, MS, NC, OH, PA, SC, WI, and in Canada, China, Finland, France, India, and Italy; giving also to national organizations to support organizations involved with arts and culture, education, health, drug prevention, crime prevention, disaster relief, safety, human services, urban renewal, and civic affairs. Special emphasis is directed toward programs designed to help motivate our future leaders and workers to gain the desire, knowledge, and work readiness skills required for companies to succeed and maintain a competitive edge. No grants to individuals (except for employee-related scholarships), or for lobbying activities, local athletic or sports programs or sports equipment, travel, advertising, benefits, raffles, or similar fund raising events, or research or conferences and provide no support for private foundations, fraternal, social, labor, or veterans’ organizations, discriminatory organizations, organizations not of direct benefit to the entire community, political parties or candidates, organizations posing a conflict of interest with OMNOVA, or churches or religious organizations.
Program Areas: Adult Literacy, Arts, At-Risk/Character, General Education, Health/PE, Math, Reading, Science/Environmental, Social Studies.
Recipients: Public School, Private/Charter School, Higher Education, Other.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: None
Total Amount: $1,871,000
Average Amount: $1,000 - $50,000
Location: Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wisconsin.

• HMSA Foundation
Description: The mission of the HMSA Foundation is to extend HMSA’s commitment to providing access to cost-effective health care services; health promotion, education and research; and the promotion of social welfare. Topics include: Wellness Education Programs, Safety, Substance abuse, Physical activity, Nutrition, and Disease specific programs.
Program Areas: Health/PE.
Recipients: Public School, Private/Charter School, Other.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: Jan. 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1
Average Amount: $30,000
Availability: Hawaii

• The New York Community Trust
Description: Giving limited to the metropolitan New York, NY, area to applications for projects having particular significance for the New York City area. Program areas of major interest are: 1) Children, Youth, and Families - includes issues of hunger and homelessness, social services, substance abuse, youth development, girls and young women; 2) Community Development and the Environment - includes civic affairs, community development, conservation, environment, and technical assistance; 3) Education, Arts, and the Humanities - includes arts and culture, education, historic preservation, immigration, and human justice; and 4) Health and People With Special Needs - includes health services and policy, biomedical research, AIDS, visual handicaps, children and youth with disabilities, the elderly, and mental health and retardation. In addition, the trust has established divisions that reach out to the greater New York metropolitan area: the Westchester Community Foundation and the Long Island Community Foundation. No grants to individuals (except for scholarships), or for deficit financing, emergency funds, building campaigns, films, endowment funds, capital projects or general operating support and provide no support for religious purposes.
Program Areas: Adult Literacy, Arts, At-Risk/Character, Community Involvement/Volunteerism, Disabilities, Family Services, General Education, Health/PE, Homeless, Math, Reading, Science/Environmental, Social Studies.
Recipients: Public School, Private/Charter School, Higher Education, Other.
Proposal Deadline & Criteria: None
Total Amount: $167,770,000
Average Amount: $2,500 - $8,500,000
Availability: New York