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Grants For A School Dropout Program

Grants for a School Dropout Program

Grants for a School Dropout Program

Name of Grant and Funder	How You Found It	Description of the Type of Funding	How does the grant fit with the Resource Center’s missions, goals and objectives?
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates	Google Search	$ 1Million	Education focused philanthropist
Simon Cowell	Google Search	$ 500,000	Owns a television and music company and he is a school dropout
Drew Barrymore	Press conference	$ 380,000	A successful entrepreneur who is a school dropout
US Department of Education	Article	60 months to state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs)	A school dropout prevention program

This article explains the grants that funded the above program, these funders include programs that have helped reduce school dropouts, they also include successful people in the world today who also dropped out of school and have contributed immensely to education today making sure that the number of school dropouts reduces. One of them is Bill Gates who is an education-focused philanthropist since the early 2000s, he has a foundation with his wife called the Bill and Melinda gates foundation that plans to invest nearly $1.7 billion to fund U.S public education (Hess, 2017). This program aims to support education by reducing the number of school dropouts through different strategies the first one is through collecting data to track the student attendance, scores in their test and grade accumulation. Improving curriculum, helping students with special needs and funding these programs to ensure students can stay in school and are having access to quality public education.

Having dropped out of school at the age of 16 complaining of cold and going hungry, Simon Cowell has become very successful despite being a dropout. He contributed $ 500,000 to fund this program. Drew Barrymore is among the grantors, she is a successful film star who dropped out of school, and she funded the program with $ 380,000. During a press conference, she announced a contribution of $1million to help feed children in Africa who often drops out of school due to hunger (Hack, 2011).

With the annual dropouts rate, high school initiative such as state education agencies and local education agencies support the implementation of effective dropout prevention and reentry programs. They have projects which award state and local education agencies up to 60 months of services designed to keep students in schools, these services include encouraging students who have dropped out of school to reenter school and graduate.

References

Hack, S (2011). Actor and World Food Programme Ambassador Drew Barrymore Shares Her Story. https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2011-08-08/drew-barrymore-actor-and-world-food-programme-ambassador

Hess, A (2017). Bill Gates is spending $1.7 billion to fix the US education system. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/bill-gates-is-spending-1-point-7-billion-on-fixing-education-in-the-us.html

Tori O’Neal-McElrath. (2019). Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning Developing, and Writing Successful Proposals.