Carol White PEP Grants

PEP GRANT

 

Well, if you have not sent in your 2008 PEP grant application, you are too late. Monday March 24^th was the deadline for 2008 applications. Obviously if you are visiting this website and reading this blog, you are a physical education leader looking for new ideas.

 

If your district did not apply for the PEP grant this year, why not? Were you too busy? Did the application process look to difficult? Did you think you would not have a chance to win? What ever your reason, change your thinking and start planning on applying in 2009. From the time the federal government released the application and the grant deadline is a very short period of time. You need to start planning your grant well in advance of the grant applications. You need to start by doing a district needs assessment. Do a survey of all the PE teachers in your district and ask them to compile a “wish list” of equipment or professional in-service that would take your PE program to another level. Start doing research on “best practice”, call schools in your state that have already won PEP grants for ideas. Investigate opportunities to get assistance in writing your PEP grant. The first place to start is contact our PE4life headquarters and find out what resources are available to help you with your PEP grant.

 

If you write your first PEP grant and do not win, you still will gain valuable experience. Your grant will be scored and you can find out how to improve your grant application the following year. Many successful PEP grant winners did not win the first year, but they remained persistent, and applied the following year.

 

Talk to anyone that has won a PEP grant and they will tell you, it is well worth the time and effort. Hundreds of PE programs have made dramatic changes in their PE programs after winning a PEP grant. Once they school district has financial support to run a quality program, the local district sees the change, and most PEP winners discovered they have much stronger support for their program even after the PEP money has been spent.

 

You can win and you can make a difference for every child in your district, make up your mind right now to start putting your plan in place.

 

Congratulations to all those school districts that went the extra mile and scrambled to get their PEP application in on time. Good Luck and hopefully you will receive that phone call in the fall that will change your program for ever…….the call that says….Congratulations; you have won the Carol White PEP grant for 2008.

 

If you are a winner in the fall, you need to mark your calendar: Sept 18^th and 19^th PE4life will be hosting their 2^nd annual PEP Rally for all the PEP grant winners. Our first conference was a huge success. Just one part of the day included a panel discussion with 5 former PEP grant winners talking about all of their valuable experience. Winning the PEP grant is exciting but using the money wisely is critical. PEP grant winners submitted questions before the conference, and before the day was over, we covered every thing a new PEP winner would need to know. We even cover the critical information on what to do when the PEP money is gone.

 

 PE4life was involved helping write the initial language for the PEP grant. No organization in the country has worked with more PEP grant winners than PE4life. Even the federal government has asked PE4life to give presentations at the mandatory PEP meetings for all the PEP winners in Washington DC.

 

If you are a PEP winner – become a real winner and tap PE4life for invaluable information about how to utilize your PEP grant most effectively.

Stay tuned to the PE4life website for valuable information regarding PEP grants. In the near future we are going to release the real story about an American heroine Carol White. Thousand of schools have received millions of dollars from the PEP grant but I have never talked to a PEP winner that knew the lady behind the grant, Carol White. If you are a PEP grant winner or not, you will want to hear and share the inspirational story about Carol White.