It is a sad truth that school counseling programs are often understaffed and underfunded. Professional school counselors can advocate for the importance of a comprehensive school counseling program in order to encourage additional staffing and school counselors can identify and write grants to help answer the funding problem. Grants are sums of money offered by organizations or the government for a particular purpose. These sums are awarded freely and require no repayment on the part of professional school counselors. Professional school counselors have many grants available to them which can be found through their state and national school counseling websites. Grants for educators can also be found through state and national department of education websites (Vernon & Rainey, 2009). Additionally a quick Google search will often yield legitimate funding opportunities. Linked below are a variety of websites with grants available to professional school counselors and educators which can be used to enhance a comprehensive school counseling program.