Helping Kids Mini Grant Program
This program helps public school districts meet urgent health, mental health, education and social service needs that impact children and their families.
Since 2012, AASA and Sourcewell, our government cooperative procurement partner, have joined forces to bring the Helping Kids Mini Grant Program to AASA members, who are also Sourcewell account holders, to assist districts with specific needs.
The mini grants have been used for everything from urgent everyday necessities to natural disaster relief. This year, there is $42,000 in grant funding to help with improving school infrastructure to improve learning.
Thank you to Sourcewell, AASA's Government Cooperative Procurement Partner, for its continuing support of AASA and the mini grant program.
To be considered, the grant applicant must:
- Be a current AASA member in good standing.
- To check if you are an AASA member or retrieve your AASA member ID, please log in to your AASA account or contact membership@aasa.org.
- Be part of a school district with a registered Sourcewell account. Sourcewell account registration is free with no obligation to purchase.
- To check if your school district has a registered account with Sourcewell or to retrieve your Sourcewell account ID, please click here.
- To create a free registered account with no obligation to buy, click here.
Sourcewell offers accounts to all government agencies, public and private schools/colleges, tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit https://sourcewell-mn.gov.
From 2024 Grant Awardees:
We were so excited to receive the AASA | Sourcewell Helping Hands grant and are looking forward to the good work that will come from our students having the opportunity to utilize the Echo 2 Digital Smartpen in classrooms. We were fortunate in the timing of the grant and were able to get the bundle for our students - which came with the pens and notebooks - which allow students to easily record audio notes and information in their handwritten notes. We believe this will add a benefit for students who are auditory learners, or who may process information at different rates and leverage learning for students of different abilities across the classroom. Since we initially wrote the grant, we have continued to identify students who would benefit from the technology for instance: English as a Second Language students and Foreign Exchange students. The Helping Hands Grant is going to open technology for students to expand their notetaking, writing and organization skills and ultimately increase student achievement. Tim Webster, Superintendent, St. James R-1 School District, St. James (Mo.)
Past Grant Recipients
In Partnership with Sourcewell
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Questions?
We are delighted to be the recipients of the $3,500 Helping Kids Mini Grant from AASA and Sourcewell. For students to be successful 21st century citizens, they must be prepared to proficiently use technology. In fact, our District's Portrait of a Graduate defines our desire for Twinsburg High School graduates to be aware, open-minded, collaborative, agile, and engaged. Each of these tenets requires students to harness technology in order to successfully be employed, enlisted, or enrolled. To that end, the Twinsburg City School District issues a Chromebook to each student. Unfortunately, with 25% of our students eligible for the Federal Meal Program, not all students have the benefit of internet access at their homes. Thanks to the $3,500 grant from AASA Sourcewell, our District will be able to provide internet access through hotspots to qualifying families. We sincerely appreciate these grant funds as they will directly impact our students and their success. Thank you, once again, for this opportunity!
Kathi Powers, Superintendent, Twinsburg City School District, Twinsburg (Ohio)