Program Guidelines

Big Yellow School Bus provides $200 grants to help schools meet the costs of educational field trips to nonprofit cultural institutions and events across the Commonwealth for their students. Field trips must include a cultural component (e.g., trips to art and science museums, historic sites, and music and theatre performances). Grants provided by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation will support schools with a high percentage of low-to-moderate income students, as well as schools focused on students with special needs.

Eligibility
Any Massachusetts school (public, charter, parochial, or independent) serving grades PreK-12 is eligible to apply.

The field trip must involve travel to a nonprofit arts or cultural performance, exhibit, activity or program in Massachusetts. Field trips must be completed by June 30, 2009.

Schools that have already received a Big Yellow School Bus grant within the same school year are ineligible to apply again. Only one grant will be awarded per school per year.

Application Deadline and Notification
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.

Incomplete, faxed, or e-mailed applications will not be accepted.

If you have questions about the program, please contact Lauren Johanson, Program Administrator, at 617-727-3668 x264.

For additional potential field trip support, read about the PASS Program, which subsidizes the cost of admission for students to attend performances, educational tours and exhibits.