K-12, STEM and STEAM applications are accepted year-round from Seventh-day Adventist Conference- or congregation-sponsored K-12, primary, middle or high schools.
Please carefully read through our guidelines before submitting a grant application. If you are inexperienced at applying for grants, we encourage you to review our Resources for Grant Writers before applying.
Timeline
| Jan 1-June 30 | Online application portal open |
| September | Decision notifications sent |
| July 1-Dec 31 | Online application portal open |
| April | Decision notifications sent |
Eligibility
- Applicant must be a Seventh-day Adventist Conference- or congregation-sponsored K-12, primary, middle or high school
- Funding is limited to the geographic regions of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists and the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
- Schools are eligible for funding once every three years.
- If the school has three classrooms or less it qualifies for up to $5,000, four classrooms or more it qualifies for up to $10,000.
- STEM and STEAM requests require a board approved technology plan submitted with the application.
Project Exclusions
- Capital improvements, including new construction and renovations (does not apply to outdoor materials or equipment for instructional use)
- School or church-sponsored mission trips
- Debt reduction
- Payroll and salaries
- Purchase of perishables and consumables
- Scholarships
- Sub-granting or regranting of Versacare Foundation funds
- Tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, computers and related hardware or software for non-classroom use (e.g., for admin office; use at home by staff; etc.)
When applying for a K-12, STEM or STEAM grant, in addition to routine information like the organization’s name, primary contact person, website, and mailing address, the following types of information are required:
- Organization’s history and purpose
- Tax-exempt status
- List of organization’s current board members*
- Previous year’s financial statement*
- STEM and STEAM requests require a board approved technology plan.*
- Project description
- Project activities
- Project beneficiaries
- A description of your previous work with these beneficiaries
- Whether project beneficiaries are members of disadvantaged or underserved groups
- Project income and expenses (itemized by category)
* May be submitted in Word or PDF format
About Budgets & Financial Statements
Budgets and financial statements are not an afterthought. Funding organizations like Versacare Foundation look at your financials as a window into your project planning, strategy, feasibility, and organization sustainability, and for these reasons review of your application may begin with your financial disclosures and not the merits of your project. Also, Versacare Foundation may review your financial statements to assess your financial health and to make inferences about your leadership and past decision making. See this page for more information.
With the exception of financial statements, which are file uploads, most of the information you provide in support of your request is typed into text boxes within the online application. Each text box allows for a set number of characters, including spaces. We recommend composing your responses ahead of time in Microsoft Word or another word processor that will allow you to check your character count as you go.