{"id":3130,"date":"2024-11-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:22:00","slug":"school-safety-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/school-safety-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"School Safety &#8211; Grant Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenlightsgrantinitiative.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greenlights Grant Initiative<\/a><\/strong> is a vital resource for overworked administrators in small school districts. Created by actor Matthew McConaughey after the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, this unique initiative helps small schools access the billions of dollars in federal funding earmarked for school security and child well-being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to McConaughey, &#8220;The superintendents and principals in many of these schools that are high-risk, they are wearing three or four hats. They\u2019re the superintendent, they\u2019re the P.E. teacher, they\u2019re the bus driver. They don\u2019t have the time or the resources to fill out these grants. It\u2019s intimidating!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s where Greenlights comes in. The initiative is designed to help under-resourced districts navigate the complicated (and often confusing) grant application process, provides grant writers for assistance, and advocates for long-term improvements to federal grant-making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greenlights Grant Initiative is a vital resource for overworked administrators in small school districts. Created by actor Matthew McConaughey after the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, this unique initiative helps small schools access the billions of dollars in federal funding earmarked for school security and child well-being. According to McConaughey, &#8220;The superintendents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[619,618,617,116,494],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grant-writing-assistance","tag-greenlights-grant-initiative","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-school-safety","tag-school-shootings","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}