NEFA Educational Grants

[Thomas Bentley]

Hello NEFA Land,

I'm excited to announce an initiative/idea that the NEFA BOD has been working for a while to grow the sport. We are looking to get the memberships' feedback, questions, input and support.

NEFA Educational Grants would replace NEFA's Small Grant program. The Small Grant program hasn't been used in a while and doesn't have great infrastructure around the purpose, application and evaluation process.

There are several ways that we might fund this initiative. One idea was to designate a dollar of every membership towards the fund. There is also opportunity for TDs to put together a tournament fundraiser and for individual donors to designate towards this fund. Let us know what you think.

Below is a draft description of the grant and what the application may look like.

NEFA Members: Please post with your thoughts and questions. We hope this is a step towards providing opportunities for youth to come to know and love the sport of disc golf!


The New England Flying Disc Association Educational Grant Program

About the New England Flying Disc Association

The mission of the New England Flying disc Association (NEFA) is to promote the growth of disc golf and related disc sports in and around New England, Eastern New York and Northern New Jersey. NEFA is a 501c3 member driven organization. NEFA provides grants to educators, course development and sanctions tournaments and point series.


Purpose of the Educational Grant

NEFA’s board and its membership are very interested supporting the growth of disc golf through structured educational programs for young people as we believe it supports our core mission of growing the sport. This grant is intended to provide structured support to educators who want to teach young people disc golf. This support may include monetary contributions up to $500 dollars, in-kind donations, loans of equipment, curriculum material, volunteers for demonstrations, clinics, course design, and labor for course installation. NEFA seeks to make the most impact with our support. The following information is necessary for us to determine if your project is right for us and what support you might need to implement this project successfully. Thank you for your interest in providing opportunities for youth to come to know and love the sport of disc golf. Please contact any NEFA officer or your State Representative with questions about this application or program.

Requirements and Preferences

The applicant must be an educator at a school or after-school program inside of NEFA’s area of focus (see above). The project must have support from the School Administration. You must furnish NEFA with information about the implementation of the project for promotional purposes including pictures of people utilizing the project and numbers of participants. Preference will be given to projects that demonstrate the following:

* make disc golf a part of the curriculum
* that results in permanent courses that may be used by the public (when not in use by the school)
* have a high number of participants and/or a long duration of participation

The board may offer preferences to public schools, large schools, and underfunded districts. Please feel free to contact a NEFA board member and or your NEFA State Representative about your project prior to completing the application.


The New England Flying Disc Association Educational Grant Program Application

Your Name
School
School District
Number of Students
Is the Principal aware and supportive of this project?
Percent of Students Receiving Free or Reduced Lunch
Years teaching

What are you trying to do?
Please include information as to the nature of this project. Is it for the curriculum or co-curricular? Is this a one time activity or is it a permanent fixture? How many students will be exposed to the sport and how often?

Your experience with disc golf
How long have you played disc golf?
Approximately how many courses have you played?
Have you played competitively?
Have you taught disc golf to youth before?

Request
What equipment do you need?
What other sources of funding are supporting this project?
Would you accept used equipment donated from NEFA’s membership?
Do you need curriculum material?
Do you need training/input/advice from another educator who has taught disc golf?
Do you need man-power support? Volunteers, clinic instructors, course designers or builders?

Please teach respect of the game and the land that its played on!

[Thomas Bentley]

Exciting news: The BOD has received its first application for a NEFA Educational Grant which was generated while we were at the Special Olympics. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions about this program, please post, pm or speak with a NEFA BOD member ASAP. We would like to begin administering these grants soon.

Thank you.

[Titan_Bariloni]

nice news

glad to see the word getting out

great work nefa bod