Which activity is NOT typically part of utilizing grants?

• A. Identifying grant opportunities, applying for funding, and ensuring funds are used per terms.
• B. Managing cafeteria operations and menu planning.
• C. Monitoring grant progress and reporting outcomes to funders.
• D. Ensuring grant funds are tracked and used in accordance with terms.

Answer: (B)

Utilizing grants centers on securing funds and making sure the money is used as agreed, tracked, and reported. The core activities include identifying grant opportunities, applying for funding, ensuring expenditures align with the terms of the grant, monitoring progress, and reporting outcomes to funders. Managing cafeteria operations and menu planning, while important to the school, is a food-service function and not a typical grant-utilization task. It would be involved only if a grant specifically funded a cafeteria project, but the day-to-day operation of menus and food service is not, by itself, a grant-management activity.