The Cardinal Booster Club is accepting applications for one or more internal funding grants.  One or more of these grants will be awarded to applying JPIIHS organizations up to the budgeted amount of $9000.  Funds will be available as early as April, but no later than the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, 2024.  These grants will be awarded based on selection criteria that supports the Cardinal Booster Club mission at John Paul II High School.

The John Paul II High School Cardinal Booster Club (CBC) is a non-profit organization that exists to promote a more complete appreciation of student participation in cocurricular JPIIHS activities.   

Selection Criteria

In addition to how well a project supports CBC goals, projects will be evaluated against a number of other special considerations:

The project should benefit a significant portion of the JPII student and faculty population.

• The application should demonstrate how the project benefit would apply to a significant portion of the JPIIHS student and faculty population and not just students associated with a single program.

The project should result in a "durable" outcome

• The application should demonstrate how the project produces an outcome that produces a long-lasting impact for the school campus or population.

• Projects that don't produce a long-lasting outcome will not be considered.  

• Examples of what would and would not be considered durable are:

The project should be completed by the end of the 2024-2025 school year

• Applicants will be asked to demonstrate how the funds would be utilized and that the requesting group has the ability to compete the work by the end of the fiscal year (June 30, 2025)

Frequently asked questions

• Who can apply?

  • Any JPIIHS faculty, staff, coach, administrator, parent or student may apply.

  • If a student or parent applies, the application will require the sponsorship of a full-time JPIIHS faculty, staffer or administrator.  This sponsor will ultimately be responsible for ensuring the funds are utilized in a manner consistent with the application.

• What makes this grant program possible?

  • This is the second year of a two-year plan to draw down a surplus CBC account balance where there's no forecasted need.  Rather than letting the money sit idle, CBC would like to put it to work within the school.

• How will funds be disbursed?

  • Funds will be disbursed either to an internal JPIIHS account or be paid directly to an external supplier depending on the nature of the application.

  • Awardees will need to provide documentation of expenses (receipts/invoices) to access funds.

  • Funds will never be disbursed directly to an individual student, parent, faculty member, staffer, coach or administrator.

  • Students, parents, faculty, staff or administrators may be reimbursed for purchases associated with awarded project through JPIIHS check reimbursement process, provided there are sufficient funds available and proper documentation of purchase is provided.

• Who will select the winning applications?

  • A committee of Cardinal Booster Club officers and members will select awardees and the amounts to fund for each.

• If I'm awarded funds, do I need to do anything else?

  • When funding is awarded, Cardinal Booster Club will ask awardees to agree to provide quarterly progress reports until the project is complete.

  • Awardees will need to provide documentation of expenses (receipts/invoices) to access funds.

  • In the event it's determined that a project cannot proceed, the awarded funding will revert back to Cardinal Booster Club and be considered for redistribution to a new awardee.

• Can the application be for a portion of a much larger project (greater than $9000)?

  • Applications for projects that exceed the maximum amount of the grant program will be considered based on

    • confidence that the remaining required funding is available and can be spent.

    • confidence that the funds can be utilized within the 2023-2024 fiscal year.