Field Trip Experiences (FTE) Grant Program

The Field Trip Experiences (FTE) Grant Program, managed by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, provides funding for field trip tickets, educator professional development, and workshops. This initiative aims to enhance student achievement in the arts and humanities, fostering collaboration between schools and organizations. By supporting strategic planning and delivery, the program ensures authentic connections to the curriculum while demonstrating measurable impacts on participants. Funding also covers personnel support for effective program implementation.

FTE Program Overview
The Field Trip Experiences (FTE) grant program supports the cost of field trip tickets, professional development opportunities for classroom educators, and/or pre/post-field trip workshops for students. Funding may also be allocated to necessary personnel support for the planning and implementation of the program.
This grant program supports various field trip elements. This grant program supports various field trip elements. These elements can include the cost of field trip tickets. Additionally, they could cover professional development opportunities for classroom educators. They could also include pre/post-field trip workshops for students. Funding may also be allocated to needed personnel support for the planning and implementation of the program. Funding may also be allocated to needed personnel support for the planning and implementation of the program.
This grant opportunity has the following program goals:

• Provide access to comprehensive arts and humanities field trip experiences that work to advance student achievement in the District of Columbia.
• Create a strategic approach to the planning and delivery of field trip experiences and associated programming to students and teachers.
• Make authentic connections to curricular content / themes across targeted grade levels in collaboration with appropriate personnel at DCPS and DCPCS.

Encourage collaboration between arts and humanities organizations and create the opportunity to build a “community of practice” between organizations within their discipline of specialty.
Foster new relationships between arts and humanities organizations and public schools across the city.
Demonstrate measurable impact of field trip experiences and associated programming on participating students and teachers.