Prepared for the PEACE Academy Board of Directors
The board has named fundraising its priority for the year ahead. PRISM builds AI-powered systems that turn that commitment into prospects found and applications in flight, with a light lift from staff: review and sign-off only.
PRISM AI Consultants · September 2026 · For board review ahead of the September meeting
The new building is open. Grades 5 through 7 are arriving, with the school growing toward its full 465 seats. Growth of this size brings real costs that state formulas alone were never designed to cover. After a year of hard budget choices, the goal is capacity the school does not have to hire for. And with the State Charter Schools Commission looking closely at academic and financial results, a documented funding pipeline is part of a stronger financial story.
At the July board meeting, the board committed publicly to strengthening fundraising. Several funding windows that fit schools like PEACE are open this fall. The hard part is rarely finding them. It is having the capacity to track, write, and submit while also running a school.
Funding windows that fit a school like PEACE, each checked against the funder's own page on September 13. Eligibility is confirmed with your team before any writing starts. Select any bar for the detail.
Swipe the timeline sideways to see every month.
Windows and dates verified against the State Charter Schools Commission and each funder's own published page on September 13, 2026. Award decisions belong to the funders. We promise capacity and applications in flight, never outcomes.
The engine is a working system PRISM builds and runs with your team, so the fundraising chair opens every board meeting with motion, never with a blank page.
Each option starts as one defined, flat-fee engagement, then continues month to month only if the results earn it. Choose one, or combine them. The decision for the board is simple: approve one first engagement. The exact scope and flat fee come to the chair in writing, for the board's normal approval process.
The lead option, anchored to the goal the board set in July. Paid from unrestricted funds, because federal rules generally do not allow federal grant dollars to pay for fundraising.
Hands-on sessions built on the school's own work, following Georgia's published guidance on AI in K-12. Training for teachers and school leaders is the kind of professional development that may qualify for Title II-A; your finance team confirms. Board sessions are paid from unrestricted funds.
Filling the new grades starts with families seeing the new building and the people in it.
After the first engagement proves itself, PRISM stays in the room as the school's AI partner. No long contract. The results carry the renewal.
How a yes happens
Four samples of what the engine produces, drafted from PEACE's own public numbers. Each is a starting point for your team to shape and approve, never sent without you.
What the fundraising committee would open at every board meeting. Owners shown are suggestions for the board to assign.
| Opportunity | Owner | Next step | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCSC Expansion subgrant | Finance and academic leads | Eligibility check | Before Oct 1, noon ET |
| Teacher Grants for Innovation | Interested teachers | Confirm charter eligibility, then submit | Oct 15 |
| Goizueta Foundation | Executive Director | Request an introductory call | Ahead of the November review |
| DonorsChoose | Interested teachers | Post first classroom projects | Rolling |
| Title II-A | Finance | Confirm FY27 professional development fit | This month |
A first draft of the introductory request the Goizueta Foundation asks for before any application.
A first draft for Giving Tuesday, December 1, 2026, ready for email and social posts.
A 30 second vertical video for Instagram and Facebook, cut from the school's own building footage. No student faces are used without a signed family release.
Sample cut, made tonight from the building footage the school shared. Final version would add the school's music and approved photos.
We start with one scoped, flat-fee project so the board sees results before considering anything longer, then month to month. PRISM has coached leaders at a regional youth mentoring nonprofit and at small businesses across the Lehigh Valley. PEACE would be our first charter school client, which is exactly why we start small and flat-fee.
Training for teachers and school leaders is the kind of professional development that may qualify for Title II-A. Board sessions are paid from unrestricted funds. PEACE's FY26 budget, presented at the May 2025 public hearing, carried $62,400 for staff development and $40,000 for recruitment, the natural home for enrollment storytelling. Fundraising support is paid from unrestricted funds, because federal rules (2 CFR 200.442) generally make fundraising costs unallowable without the federal agency's prior written approval. Your finance team confirms the fit for FY27.
Grant support is a flat professional fee, never a percentage of any award, the standard set by the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics.
Our work follows Georgia's published guidance on AI in K-12. Student records stay out of AI tools entirely, and educators stay the decision-makers.
Two windows are real this fall: Teacher Grants for Innovation by October 15, and a Goizueta introduction ahead of its November review. The Expansion subgrant is a long shot we will check in a day. PRISM would be honored to build this with PEACE.