The SOMEF grant application is now entirely online. This online application is designed to make it easy and convenient for you to apply and to help the grants review committee spend more time considering applications and less time on administrative tasks associated with paper forms. For a link to the proper grant application for your program (Teacher Grants or Administrator Grants), follow the links from the SOMEF grant applications page

Once you create an account and login, you will be asked to provide the following information in your application (If you created an account last year, you will need to create a new account for this year’s application. Last year’s passwords will not work):

1. Name, school or department affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address of the main applicant and any fellow applicants
2. The grade(s) to which your proposal applies
3. The school(s) to which your proposal applies
4. The number of students to be served by your grant program this year
5. To which one of these categories your grant most directly applies: art, at-risk students, basic skills, character development, conflict resolution, drama, equipment/facilities, health, history, language arts, math, music, parent outreach, physical education, professional development, science, social studies, staff resources, or another category that you name. These categories help the grants committee apportion money fairly and help the committee keep track of what categories generate the most applications.
6. Your project title
7. Your project objective in not more than two sentences or fifty words
8. A description of your project that includes subject, grade(s), number of students served, procedures, activities, materials, and time frame
9. A description of the classroom or school need, problem, or opportunity that your project addresses
10. How you will measure the success of your project
11. Whether are willing to be considered for late or partial funding, if applicable
12. An itemized budget. There is space to provide a budget of up to fifteen items. The budget should include only those items for which you are requesting SOMEF funds. If you are supplementing the grant funds with money or resources from other sources, you may address it in the project description. Because the form we are using does not provide a way to total the itemized budget, you must supply a total. In the case of a discrepancy, the committee will refer to the itemized budget.

You may save a draft copy of the application, but to do so, you must fill in some text in all the required fields. You may use placeholder text that you edit later. Once you have completed the online document, you must print a copy, have it signed by all the applicants, your department chair, and your school principal or supervisor, as applicable, and submit it to the grants committee at the address on the application.

Write us at info@somef.org or call Grants Committee chair Elise Howard at 973-762-5513 if you have questions about the application process.