Charter School Program Grant
Winning aย Charter School Program (CSP) grant for your state is a game changer. Imagine having significant financial resources to support new schools, replications, and expansions, along with money to improve authorizing quality and support charter school governing boards. ย
Our expertise gives you a competitive edge to secure and maximize your CSP grant. Our grant writing team is led by an experienced writer with a winning track record. From strategizing to writing, our team has the experience and know-how to help you achieve success.ย
Once you are awarded the grant, we provide a grant management tool and technical support assistance to build authorizing and governing capacity.
Guiding You from Funding to Impact
We offer a wide range of expert services tailored to your needs.
Win the Grant
We provide expertise to:
- Strategize and plan how a CSP grant can propel impact and growthย
- Engage and build a collaborative coalitionย
- Assemble data and research to demonstrate a compelling need
- Submit a competitive grant application written by an expert with a proven track record of success in winning CSP grantsย
Manage the Grant
We provide technology for:
- Applications: a seamless, web-based solution for submitting and reviewing applications
- Grantee Reporting: simplified reporting and monitoring with reminders and dashboards
- Site Visits: web-based tools for site evaluation and reporting
- Performance Dashboards: real-time insights into grantee performance and challenges
Strengthen Authorizing
We provide technical assistance for authorizers:
- Strategic direction and support for start-up, replication and expansion of high-quality charter schoolsย
- Improve communications and relations with schools, boards and other key stakeholdersย
- Clarify and align policies, procedures and practices from the charter application to annual oversight and renewalย
- Develop capacity and competence for overseeing and supporting schools and boardsย
- Make sound, professional and transparent evidence-based decisionsย
Strengthen Board Governance
We provide technical assistance for boards:
- Board development to increase capacity and strengthen governanceย
- Board training that can be delivered in-person, virtually and on-demandย
- Tailored training and development that is state specific and incorporates national best practices for governingย
- Development and leadership coaching for board specific roles such as board chair, board treasurer and parent representatives
Proven Impact
Join the many organizations who trust us to help them succeed with the Charter School Program grant.
In Idaho, we partnered with Bluum, a CSP grant holder, to strengthen the stateโs charter authorizing landscape. Our work with the Idaho Charter School Commission has elevated authorizing practices and built goodwill across the state.
"Working with the Institute team has been a game changer for Idaho. Their partnership is elevating our authorizers and building goodwill."
Terry Ryan
CEO, Bluum
Work with Us
Let us help you fulfill the promise of chartering and make the most of your CSP grant.โฏGet started by completing this form and ensure you are set up for success!
Meet Our Grant Writer
Dr. Benjamin Feit
Dr. Benjamin Feit is an independent educational consultant and a part-time faculty member in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston Universityโs Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Fusing his backgrounds in law, educational leadership, and nonprofit management, Dr. Feit supports organizational improvement and policy reform initiatives designed to promote equity-driven innovation within public education systems. Drawing on his experience as a system and school leader, educator, board member, capacity-building partner, and researcher, Dr. Feit provides strategic and technical assistance to institutional clients including state and local education agencies, statewide charter support organizations, charter schools and networks, private foundations, university-based consultancies, and education innovation nonprofits.
Dr. Feitโs dissertation explored the unique challenges inherent in leading geographically non-contiguous school systems, particularly those whose campuses are located in multiple states. After graduating from Duke University School of Law magna cum laude and serving as a staff editor on the institutionโs flagship law review, Dr. Feit clerked for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Education
EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University
MEd, Teachers College, Columbia University
JD, Duke University School of Law
BA, History, Yale University
Authorizer Resources
Why Work With Us...
Experienced Leaders
We know education. Work with passionate professionals who have walked in your shoesโas authorizers, board members, school leaders, teachers, and even lawmakers.
One-Stop-Shop
We have solutions for all aspects of charter operationsโfrom one-on-one coaching and consulting with seasoned experts, to professional development and training for your team, to robust tools and software systems.
Creative Solutions
Our services, tools and expertise are always growing and evolving. We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box and challenging the givens, with new and creative solutions that fit your custom needs.
Reliable & Responsive
Our team is trusted nationally for being reliable, respected and dedicated. We are leaders who are committed to students and those who serve them. Kids! They are the WHY behind all we do.
