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SmartLab Funding Opportunities

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Need Help Funding Your SmartLab Learning Program?

Creative Learning Systems has extensive experience helping clients secure both public and private funding for our SmartLab Learning solutions. Funding is available from the following sources:

Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund for public schools.

Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools (EANS) fund for private and independent schools.

Funding from private organizations and companies for both public and private schools.

Put your funding to work

SmartLab Learning Program

SmartLab Learning solutions help schools and districts meet the congressional and state-level funding requirements for allowable activities, which include:

Maximizing in-person instructional time

Implementing project-based learning

Mitigating learning loss

Addressing social-emotional learning needs

Are you ready to engage your K–12 learners and meet educational objectives?

Maximize Your Federal Funding

Discover Your Funding Options

The Creative Learning Systems team has helped public, private, rural, urban, large, and small schools secure funding. Our funding specialists can:

ESSER for Public Schools

Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund

EANS for Private Schools

Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools

Private Donors

Discover organizations committed to equitable learning opportunities.

Funding Through Grants

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Maximize ESSER Funding to Engage Students

Learn what to prioritize when applying for ESSER funding.

Learn More About ESSER for Public Schools

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EANS Funding Can Support STEM Programs

Talk to a CLS funding specialist to learn how your private school can access the right funds.

Our Partners

Equitable STEM Programming Made Possible

Meet the private donors working to make SmartLab Learning accessible to all.

Grants

Explore Active Grant Opportunities

You don’t have to go it alone — the CLS team can help you with the grant search and application process.

Our Funding Partners

SmartLab Learning is pleased to partner with these private donors committed to furthering equitable STEM education across America.

Gill Foundation

One of the nation’s leading funders of efforts to secure full equality for LGBTQ individuals – committed to ensuring equity in schools

Success Foundation

The Success Foundation is committed to advancing PK–12 education in the 6th congressional district of Colorado.

CAMPOS EPC

Campos EPC is dedicated to supporting the next generation of engineering and construction professionals.

MidAmerica Industrial

MidAmerica Industrial Park is invested in providing local students with the skills needed to join the workforce in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Active Grants

Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Grant

This program serves high-need students with a goal of improving student achievement and attainment through entrepreneurial and innovative programs.

American Honda Foundation STEM Grant

This grant supports education programs with a focus on STEM and the environment. It specifically looks for programs that support Honda’s tenets of being imaginative, creative, forward-thinking, scientific, and innovative. A perfect complement to our SmartLab solutions.

Motorola Solutions Foundation STEM Grant

SmartLab solutions are the perfect fit for this grant, which focuses on technology and engineering education featuring innovative, hands-on activities. Programs that offer coding, programming, computer science, and robotics—like SmartLab Learning—are prime contenders.

Perkins CTE Funding

This federal funding source—which supports career and technical education—complements our mission to prepare learners for post-secondary success.

See Who We’ve Helped

Hear From Our Happy Clients

“Our SmartLab HQ is the perfect blend of standards-aligned education with the skills needed to be successful tomorrow. Students are continually engaged and are working on problem-solving skills and grit daily.”

Gary Baker

Principal, California Elementary School | Public | California, MO

“In our SmartLab, the students have become licensed drone pilots, are coding their own apps to solve equations, have developed websites for outside businesses, and gone to college for engineering in various fields.”

Marcus Diamond

SmartLab Facilitator, Weld Central High School, Weld County RE5 School District | Public | Keenesburg, CO

“Our mission is to serve diverse learners, providing a student-centered, differentiated, and transformative education. In keeping with DA’s mission, this program provides us with the ability to individualize learning for each student, support them in areas in which they struggle, and provide challenges in areas where they excel.”

Mark Twarogowski

Head of School, Denver Academy | Private | Denver, CO

“Our gifted students use the SmartLab HQ with their homeroom class as well as during their pullout gifted class. Their critical- and creative-thinking skills are challenged daily. The result? We’ve seen an increase in standardized testing scores and, overall, student behavior has improved.”

Marlana Mielke

SmartLab Facilitator and Gifted Intervention Specialist, Danbury Local Schools | Public | Danbury, OH