Any teacher/staff from the Norton Public Schools can fill out and submit a grant application. 

When the grant season opens, all teachers/staff receive an email from Dr. O'Neill/NEED linking to the grant application on Google Drive. 

The application needs to be filled out in full and saved to the drive by the deadline. 

Then, the school administration evaluates grant requests to identify those that may be eligible for already-budgeted funds and to ensure consistency with current curriculum goals.  

Finally, those grants requests that aren't able to be funded through existing budgets are reviewed by NEED volunteers, who award grants based on available funds and a variety of other factors. We wish that we could fund every single grant application every year but we simply do not have enough money to do so. 

• Those whose grant requests have been awarded will be notified and the announcements will be made public at a School Committee Meeting. 

• Those whose grant requests have not been funded, please take a look on this page's Grant Resources section. There are local and national grant foundations that may be able to help you.  And don't forget to check with your on-site Parent-Teacher Association! They may be able to help fund a request that NEED cannot.

Past grants that have been awarded include flexible classroom furniture, French & Spanish reading materials, an electric piano, STEM kits, standing FitDesks, multi-sensory items, iRig keyboards, iPads, a portable sound system, subscriptions for online learning pilot programs, Rubik’s cubes, and even Harry Potter-themed items & furniture for a library transformation!