Every year the PTO makes $20,000 worth of Mini-Grant funds available to teachers. For the 2024-25 school year, we are offering up to $25,000 in Mini-Grants! These Mini-Grants have been used to enrich our students' education and bring them to the next level of learning. 

Here are just some of the many Mini-Grants that have been approved in recent years:

• Sensory hallway at CRPS

• Music program: NJ Symphony Orchestra

• Anti-Bullying programs - Be a Super Hero, and Lead-U Assembly

• Author visits - David Adler, Annie Silvestro, and Kate Klise

• Local Field Trips - Battle of Monmouth, Lenni Lenape, Algonquin Theatre, and Huber Woods

• After-school clubs - Mural club, Sushi club garden, Chess club - chess sets

• Science - Pop Quiz Assembly, Chick Hatching, Drones, Goggle Sanitizing Cabinet

• Flexible seating for classrooms and CRPS Library

• Shakespeare Live

• iPods for Digital Photography

• Expansion of the robotics program

• Cubelets coding and robotics tools

• District-wide Air Purifiers and Filters, Wait Until 8th Presentation

• Mentoring with AT&T Aspire Program to encourage STEM learning in female students

• CDMS After the Bell Program

• Communication Boards for CRES and CRPS Playgrounds

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View the 2023-2024 approved Mini-Grants here and click through our Mini-Grant slideshow below to see Mini-grants in action!  

2024-25 Mini-Grant Application Guidelines

• All active PTO teacher/staff members are eligible to submit a Mini-grant request. If you are not a member yet, please click here to register.

• Click here to access the Mini-Grant application, also available under the FORMS section of our website.

• Mini-Grant applications are evaluated and approved by the PTO Mini-Grant committee in partnership with the Colts Neck administration and principals.

• Mini-Grant applications are due by October 8th, 2024.

• After October 8th, 2024, the Mini-Grant committee will review applications. If additional Mini-Grant funds are still available for the 2024/25 school year, the committee will reopen the application process in January 2025. 

• Contact Samantha Amato at vp@coltsneckpto.org with questions.

Simply being a member helps to make these programs a reality. Thank you to all of the dedicated teachers and staff who have taken the time to implement these programs for our children! We appreciate all that you do!