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Grant consultant reports eight applications, four wins and $600,000 pending including a $500,000 DOJ safety request
Summary
Bridgette Wells told the board she submitted eight grant applications in a six‑month engagement, won four (about $40,000), and has roughly $600,000 pending — including a $500,000 U.S. Department of Justice proposal to fund safety upgrades and 100 security cameras.
Bridgette Wells, a contract grant‑writing consultant working with Wiseburn Unified, told the board the district has submitted eight grant applications since January, won four awards totaling just under $40,000 and has roughly $600,000 in pending requests, including a $500,000 federal proposal for school safety upgrades.
Wells said she was hired in January for a six‑month term to build Wiseburn’s grant capacity, map district priorities to funder opportunities and produce reusable program descriptions and budgets. “All of these we fulfilled and a couple of these we exceeded,” she said of the contract goals.
Why it matters: grants are a common way school districts supplement restricted and discretionary revenue to fund arts, STEM, career‑connected learning and safety improvements without…
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