DKG Mini Grant Program

To be eligible for funding, an applicant must:

• Be a qualified Early Childhood through Grade 12 educator
• Be currently teaching in Boone or Winnebago counties

To be eligible for grants from the Lana P. Smith Memorial Fund, the applicant must also be female.

The mini-grants may be used to fund special classroom activities, purchase educational materials, attend workshops, or implement any other project that enhances or improves the quality of education.

 The project should:

1. Improve and enhance a classroom’s academic program.

2. Encourage creativity in students.

3. Involve a broad range of students.

4. Have the potential for being replicated.

5. Be implemented in the same academic year in which the grant is awarded.

To apply for the mini-grants, educators must complete an online application. Applications open in November and are available through CFNIL’s Web Portal. All applications must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on the specified date in January. Grant recipients will be notified by March.

Grant recipients will be required to submit a final report within four months of grant approval. Past grant recipients will be excluded from future grant consideration if the final report has not been submitted for prior funding. Grant recipients will also be asked to prepare a brief presentation about their project to be presented at a Zeta Chapter meeting in May at Rockford University.

Questions regarding program guidelines and criteria should be emailed to Rachel Huetson, Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Zeta Chapter.

Questions regarding the online application should be directed to Lisa DeLang, Community Foundation of Northern Illinois at (779) 210-8210.