FOUNDATIONS/GRANTS

CONTENTS:

• K-12 School Grant Sources and Funding Opportunities
  • Sources
  • Funding Opportunities

K-12: School Grant Sources

SchoolGrants:
SchoolGrants was created to help fill the needs of the K-12 education community in locating and applying for grants so that some of the dream projects of the teachers in the U.S. can be realized. Sharing successful proposals and other tips and information with your colleagues is an excellent way to help all children across the United States.

Donna Fernandez, the "organization" behind the creation and maintenance of SchoolGrants, recognized the need for those interested in K-12 education to have a convenient place to collaborate and share. In May 2000, Ms. Fernandez began the listserv, Bring Home the Bacon, to facilitate discussions with other educators and interested community members. SchoolGrants also posts grant opportunities of benefit to K-12 schools, educators and students throughout the U.S.

http://www.schoolgrants.org/
http://www.schoolgrants.org/bacon_list.htm
http://www.schoolgrants.org/grant_opps.htm

eSchoolNews online:
eSchoolNews online is committed to providing the information and services necessary to help improve education and learning through the integration and application of technology.

The mission of eSchoolNews online is to enable data-driven decision making in public, private and parochial schools and school districts, through the timely dissemination of news and information via critically acclaimed print periodicals, Web and Internet-based publications, electronic information services and strategic national conferences.

The eSchoolNews Funding Center is also a very helpful source for up-to-the minute grant programs, funding sources and technology funding information. And eSchoolNews, a free monthly Internet newsletter, is dubbed "the K-12 decision makers' number 1 source for up-to-date and reliable information."

http://www.eschoolnews.org/
http://www.eschoolnews.org/resources/funding/
http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/current.cfm

Grants and Foundation Review:
Grants and Foundation Review is a new CharityChannel e-mail newsletter launched in collaboration with GrantStation.com, a leading source of reliable information on grantmakers and grant deadlines. Delivered to your e-mailbox each Tuesday, this free newsletter provides up-to-date news, tips and funding opportunities from government agencies and foundations from around the U.S.

http://www.charitychannel.com/newsletters/gfr/

GrantStation.com:
GrantStation.com also provides the opportunity to subscribe for free to the GrantStation Insider, a weekly e-newsletter for grantseekers. GrantStation.com also publishes a monthly newsletter exclusively for members that offers in-depth articles, analyses, deadlines and contact information on private and federal grant opportunities. The cost of membership in GrantStation.com, however, is $299/year.

http://www.grantstation.com/

K-12: Funding Opportunities

Grants for Community Technology Centers:
Sponsored by the Department of Education (ED), these grants establish or expand community technology centers in economically distressed urban and rural areas. The centers are intended to provide access to technology and promote the use of technology among all populations in underserved areas, and often they are located in K-12 school districts.

Local education agencies, consortia of nonprofit groups, and state education agencies are eligible to apply for the grants. ED estimates that 80 to 100 awards will be given in this cycle, averaging $200,000 to $250,000 each.

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/CTC/index.html

Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching:
Sponsored by the Golden Apple Foundation, these grants recognize outstanding Illinois teachers for their contributions to society. Winners receive a paid, fall-term sabbatical at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Winners may take as many courses as they wish in any subjects they choose. Awardees also receive a $2,500 stipend and an Apple computer system.

Nominated teachers must teach full-time at a public or nonpublic school in Cook, Lake or DuPage Counties. For the 2001-2002 school year, teachers must spend the majority of their assignment time teaching one or more of grades six through eight. Anyone can nominate a teacher for this award, but a teacher cannot nominate himself or herself. Deadline: December 1, 2001.

http://www.goldenapple.org

Random Acts of Kindness Foundation Contest:
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is sponsoring a teachers lesson plan contest. The foundation supports the global Kindness Movement by encouraging and assisting individuals and groups who wish to perform kind acts. To help fulfill its mission, the foundation collects lesson plans and makes them available to others interested in promoting Kindness in their schools.

To honor the efforts of these teachers, the foundation will award $500 each to the teachers who submit the ten best Random Acts of Kindness lesson plans. Teachers (or past/retired teachers) involved in Kindness projects and/or activities in their classrooms are eligible to participate. Deadline: December 31, 2001.

http://www.actsofkindness.org/whats_new/lesson_plan_contest.html

Teaching Tolerance Program:
This program is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center that offers grants of up to $2,000 to K-12 classroom teachers for implementing tolerance projects in their schools and communities. Proposals from other educators such as community organizations and churches will be considered on the basis of direct student impact. There are no deadlines for proposals, but allow for a 10 to 12-week processing time when planning for your project.

http://www.tolerance.org/teach/

Cathy Hampton