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Single Project Grant

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Single Project grant application proposals will fit a school’s identified needs and
interests. In order to identify which changes the school would like to accomplish and determine which corresponding activities to propose, it is often helpful to engage a variety of student and adult leaders.

The National Center has outlined general categories and sample activities below to give applicants ideas about ways in which Single Project grant funds can make a difference.

When thinking about what to propose, it may be helpful to answer the following question: At this school, we want to…

Improve safety:

  • Start a safety patrol or club.
  • Work to increase safe driving in school zones and neighborhoods by addressing issues that could include reducing speeding, cell phone usage, texting, etc.
  • Provide age-appropriate walking/bicycling safety education, including hands-on and/or classroom activities.
  • Work to improve unappealing routes to school, which can address student and parental concerns about personal security.

Increase the number of students walking and bicycling to school:

  • Start a safety patrol or club.
  • Work to increase safe driving in school zones and neighborhoods by addressing issues that could include reducing speeding, cell phone usage, texting, etc.
  • Provide age-appropriate walking/bicycling safety education, including hands-on and/or classroom activities.
  • Work to improve unappealing routes to school, which can address student and parental concerns about personal security.

Emphasize physical activity and health:

  • Integrate safe walking and bicycling into the school’s broader Let’s Move initiative.
  • Connect the choice to walk/bicycle with better health.
  • Organize groups of students to walk or bicycle together as part of an after-school club. Club could also include bicycle maintenance activities.
  • Track mileage via pedometers.

Explore environmental concerns:

  • Connect the choice to walk/bicycle with helping the environment in general.
  • Explore the connection between active transportation and air quality.
  • Some example activities include implementing car-free Wednesdays, starting a “No Idling” campaign, demonstrating the difference between air quality emissions in the drop-off line versus a non-motor vehicle area, etc.

Contribute to an overall positive learning environment:

  • Contribute to students’ readiness to learn by tracking rates of absenteeism, tardiness, and/or in school behavior in conjunction with active transportation to school.
  • Some example activities include tracking absenteeism/tardiness on walk-to-school days versus regular school days; working with students to connect in-school behavior and/or grades with opportunity to participate in after-school walking/bicycling club, ability to earn helmet/bicycle parts/bicycle, etc.
  • Collaborate with teachers to integrate walking and bicycling into the general curriculum (math, social studies, English, science, etc.).

Participate in civic discussion:

  • Develop and/or promote school or district policies which are supportive of safe walking and bicycling to school.
  • Interact with local officials via presentations, letters, videos, etc.

In any of the above categories, using students’ service-learning projects or community service requirements can be additional ways to engage students in safe walking/bicycling activities while benefitting the broader school community.

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