Strengthening School Safety & Mental Health Supports Across Multiple K-12 Districts
Client: Multiple K–12 schools and charter schools
Context & Challenge:
Several public schools faced urgent safety and school-climate needs and needed a coordinated, competitive approach to state and federal School Safety funding opportunities. The districts needed: (1) a tight, evidence-based narrative that linked data to proposed interventions; (2) a compliant project budget and reporting plan; and (3) a streamlined, repeatable process they could use for future awards.
Studiously’s Solution:
Studiously led a full life-cycle grant engagement that combined strategic planning, technical grant writing, and postaward readiness. Key elements:
Rapid needs assessment and data synthesis to build a compelling problem statement and theory of action.
Collaborative drafting workshops with district leaders to align outcomes, activities and metrics.
Tight budget development, compliance checklist creation, and a rehearse-submission review to ensure funder requirements were fully met.
Implementation of Studiously’s grant development framework, FUNDS, to refine the proposal and prepare the district for post-award performance monitoring.
Execution Highlights:
Held facilitated planning sessions to translate district safety data into a cohesive proposal narrative.
Built an aligned logic model, performance measures, and a compliant budget.
Prepared a post-award monitoring package (report templates, staffing plan, subrecipient monitoring procedures).
Outcomes & Impact
Studiously’s team has an established record of success with school safety funding — a perfect (100%) award rate on the NC School Safety Grant and more than $3M in award dollars across school districts and charters. This experience directly informed the work and strengthened reviewers’ confidence in the proposal.
Specific funded awards tied to Studiously engagements include multiple School Safety Grant awards for Global Scholars Academy (awards shown across 2022–2025), including $328,332 and subsequent awards that helped operationalize safety personnel, training, and reporting systems. These awards funded tangible improvements in staffing, monitoring, and targeted interventions at the school level.
Why It Mattered:
Districts moved from fragmented safety planning to an operational, fundable program with reporting and compliance systems in place. The awarded funds supported staff positions and evidence-based interventions while the district gained repeatable templates and practices that reduced future proposal development time.
