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Program Guidelines for 2011-2012 School Year
Big Yellow School Bus provides $200 transportation grants to
help schools meet the costs of educational field trips for their
students to non-profit cultural institutions and events across
the Commonwealth. Field trips must take place in Massachusetts
to an activity or site run by a non-profit cultural institution
in the arts, sciences, and humanities (for example, trips to art
and science museums, historic sites, and music, theater, and dance
performances). Grants provided by the Bank of America Charitable
Foundation support schools with 51% or more low income students.
Eligibility
Any Massachusetts school (public, charter, parochial, or independent)
serving grades K-12 is eligible to apply.
The field trip destination must be in Massachusetts to an activity,
exhibit, site, or performance in the arts, sciences, and humanities
run by a non-profit cultural organization.
Only one grant will be awarded per school per school year.
Schools that have already received a Big Yellow School Bus grant
during this school year (2011-2012) are ineligible to apply again.
Application Deadline, Notification, and Payment
There is no application deadline. Applications are reviewed on
a "first-received, first-funded" basis until all available
funds have been awarded.
Within one week of receipt of the application, you will be notified
via email about the status of your application. Make sure your
email is set to receive email from diane.daily@art.state.ma.us.
If your application is approved, you will receive instructions on
how to complete a simple, one-page contract that you will complete
and mail to the MCC. You must return your contract within
30 days of receiving your approval.
Within 30 days of receiving the completed contract, your $200 payment
will be sent electronically. Grants to public schools will be sent
to the town treasurer; to access the funds, contact your town treasurer.
Grants to all other schools will be sent directly to the school.
Incomplete, faxed, or e-mailed applications will not be accepted.
Apply
now.
Questions? Contact Diane
Daily, Program Manager, at 617-727-3668 x262.
Please note: Admissions subsidies for field trips may be available through the MCC's Local Cultural Council Program.
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