Hand Up Curricula Subsidy Grants for School Districts

We believe that all K-12 students should learn essential personal life skills as a core part of their education, hand-in-hand with academic subjects -- a two-pillar approach to education.

Until essential personal life skills are a required and routine part of the American education system, we are supporting school districts—primarily in Florida—by helping to offset a portion of one year of essential personal life skills curricula.

This investment helps ensure that students gain the critical skills needed for success in school, relationships, careers, and life.  As this McKinsey & Co report shows, the skills that students will most need in the future world of work are those that fall under the category of essential personal life skills:

McKinsey & Co. Report

We work with a select list of companies that provide quality video-based curriculum for grades K-12, and when they identify a district that would like to contract for their programming for their K-12th-grade students but cannot pay for it in full, we help to subsidize a portion of that cost through a grant. We then encourage those school districts to establish community, business, and parent partnerships to sustain funding for the curriculum and ensure it remains a priority. 

OUR IMPACT

  • $271,477 in support
  • 12 states
  • 13 school districts 
  • 52,265 students
  • Over 17,000 educators
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Grant Questionnaire For School Districts Requesting Funding Subsidies

Click here for a downloadable PDF version of the Grant Questionnaire

Click here for a downloadable MS Word version of the Grant Questionnaire

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How to use santorofoundation.org

This website is a free resource of material to help improve your social and emotional intelligence.  The material on this website ranges from individual “sayings” to a full curriculum program called Alive2Thrive.  To help you become your best self, please review all this site has to offer.  It is important you pass this site along to others so they can be the best they can be and by doing so we will build the best society.