Safer Schools Initiative

The Safer Schools Initiative is a Global Grid for Learning strategic impact initiative centered around keeping students safe in schools. Corporate sponsors sustain the cost of these and many other programs so that schools can have the best tools available. The annual total grant value is estimated to exceed $25 million annually if fully realized. Schools and districts worldwide may become a GG4L member and apply to qualify for an in-kind grant that will fund one school or district choice pre-integrated innovative school safety EdTech solution. Over 45 global providers have been identified to date with deployment and usage at no cost to the schools for the school-year program term.*

The On-Demand Grant enables schools and districts around the world to assess their progress against implementing best practices for school safety. Then, schools can discover EdTech solutions that can save time and money, make them more effective and efficient, and APPLY for an in-kind grant that allows them to select any vendor’s solution in the Safer Schools catalog of curated EdTech solutions for the use of the school year.

The Safer Schools Initiative, led by Global Grid for Learning (GG4L) and McREL, a Regional Educational Laboratory (REL), is an in-kind grant available worldwide that is focused on EdTech applications that support a safer school environment in order to enable teaching and learning. Solutions range across the seven research-based domains from campus security, physical health and wellness, emotional and behavioral health, emergency preparedness and management, digital safety, community engagement, and healthy school and district culture. If you are a vendor in this space, contact us to join this initiative. If you are a school or district, apply for a grant today.