Pathways Club Grant

ROLE OF THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR (Part B)

(PRINCIPAL, COUNSELOR, OR NURSE)

1. Select a compassionate staff member (or yourself) to be the Pathways Club Leader in your school.
2. Direct the designated Club Leader to complete and submit the Grant Request Form (provided on this website) to the Foundation between August 1st and Jan 15th of each school year.
3. Ensure the school provides the total Grant Funds ($1,750.00) to the Club Leader in a timely manner, which is compensation for their time and expenses.
4. Personally identify and select the students attending your high school for Club membership:
   1. The Pathways Club is to consist of a minimum of 8 and maximum of 12 trauma-impacted student members. All must be currently experiencing trauma and assumed to be “at risk”.
   2. Students selected may be in any school grade, but freshmen and sophomores are favored.
   3. Participating students can be members of the Pathways Club for one year. However, a Club Leader may allow up to a maximum of 4 students to participate in an additional year when approved by the school administrative leaders.
5. Public recognitions of the students are imperative to accomplish the students transformation. Ensure that the Club Leader provides community and peer-witnessed in-school recognitions.
6. Inspire the parent(s)/guardian(s) of the student Club members to be aware and supportive of their student’s participation in the Pathways Club and to attend the in-school medal awards ceremony. (Award medals are provided by the Foundation.)

ROLE OF THE CLUB LEADER (Part C)

1. Utilizing the Grant Request Form provided on this website, complete and submit this Form once you have: A.) obtained permission from your school or district to form a new club (if required), and B.) learned if the Foundation is to make the Grant check payable to your school or to your school district.
2. Upon receipt of the Grant funds and in conformance with the Guidelines and Conditions of the Grant (which cannot be compromised or modified by the school or Club Leader), the Club Leader will create and lead the Pathways Club which is to be identified by the “Pathways Club” name, and which functions independently of all other school clubs and activities.
3. The Club Leader is to devote their time and aptitude to the student Club Members only to accomplish the Purpose and intent of this Grant.
4. Arrange for, supervise, perpetually inspire, and lead the student Club members in 2 (or more) noteworthy off-campus community service activities while following these parameters:
   1. The Club’s off-campus community service activities must encompass a minimum of 10 hours of service for each Club member.
   2. Select meaningful off-campus service activities which ensure that the Club members are worthy of the public recognitions they will receive for their participation.
   3. At least one activity must include service which joins the students with adult members of their community. (Refer to examples provided below.)
   4. Photograph the students while engaged in their service activities.
   5. Solicit local businesses and community members to support the student service projects on an “as needed” basis.
   6. Ensure that the service provided is devoid of any requirement to serve, discrimination or political activity and is not of personal benefit to any party to this Grant, associates or family members.
   7. Complete a minimum of two (2) service activities four (4) weeks prior to the end of your school year.
5. Public recognitions of the students are imperative to accomplish the student’s transformation. With emphasis on maximizing the recognition experience, arrange for the students to receive noteworthy acknowledgments for their service.  This is to include:
   1. Recognitions within their community through commercial media, acknowledgments by public figures, social media postings, and other available means.
   2. Recognitions within the school which, preferentially, includes the presentation of the Foundation-provided award medals during a school assembly, and in other peer-witnessed opportunities at their school.
   3. Utilize the Principal to present the award medals to the students who completed a minimum of 10 hours of off-campus public service.
   4. Acquire mandatory photographs of the student recognitions (presentation ceremonies) and of the students wearing their award medals.
   5. Recommended additional (optional) recognitions include: Letters of commendation or public acknowledgement from principal, civic leaders, or community social media.
6. Complete and submit (via email link) the Foundation’s end-of-year “Activities Report” (provided by the Foundation in May of each year) along with photographs.
   1. Ensure both service and award photographs are uploaded to the Report. If necessary, photos may be marked for “internal-use-only”.
   2. Submit the Activities Report to the Foundation’s Program Administrator prior to the end of your school year.

EXAMPLES OF PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY ADULT ENGAGEMENTS

Students experience the most-influential engagements when enjoined with community adults at social-service locations such as:

• Food Banks (Highly rated)
• Red Cross Blood Drives (Highly rated).
• Animal rescue and rehabilitation facilities.
• Kaiser Permanente Teen Volunteer Program.
• Youth camps, tree planting, medical facilities, YMCA/YWCA programs, forestry maintenance/fire prevention.
• Nonprofits which aid the needy (clothes, mobile pantries, food kitchens, homeless shelters).
• Senior living facilities, veterans housing.
• Civic Clubs (Lions, Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, VFW, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, Optimist).

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS

• Clean-up/maintenance of community properties such as public parks, walking paths, roadways, bicycle paths, lakes, streams, athletic fields, playgrounds, dog parks, roadside debris, clearing flammable vegetation, removal of graffiti, repair of vandalism.
• Assist the local Public Works Department Director with community maintenance projects (paint hydrants and curbs, weed removal, trim trees, landscape maintenance, clean storm sewers and drainage ditches).
• Support service to the local Police or Fire Departments as identified by the respective Chiefs.
• Clean-up or set-up of community events (parade, concert, county fair, air show, fireworks show, street fairs) and assist with event parking and related service.
• Restoration of unkempt residential properties of needy residents (mowing, weeding, general yard clean-up, painting, repairs) and vacant properties.

PATHWAYS CLUB ANNUAL GRANT TIMELINE

• August 1: Grant Application period opens.
• January 15: Grant Application period closes.
• April 15 (approximate): Club community service activities should be completed a month or two before school year-end.
• May 1 (approximate): Foundation ships the “Pathways Club” medals to the Club Leader.
• June 1 (approximate): Club Leader completes the “Activities Report” provided by the Foundation and submits Report before school year-end date.