This list, updated weekly, contains summaries of public and private-sector grant opportunities that may be of interest to grantees.
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October 2007
Title: Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Grant Program
Funder: Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation
Description: This program funds school improvement projects initiated by parent and parent/teacher groups to empower parents and further encourage their involvement in schools.
Award: Up to $5,000 per school.
Eligibility: Any nonprofit K–12 school (including charter, parochial, private, etc.) or parent group (associated with a nonprofit K-12 school) that has a group tax ID number and official 501(c)(3) status from the IRS is eligible to apply. Parent groups that do not have 501(c)(3) status should apply through their school.
Deadline: October 12, 2007 and February 15, 2008
For more information: http://www.toolboxforeducation.com/
Title: NEA Foundation Learning & Leadership Grants NEW!
Funder: NEA Foundation
Description: Learning & Leadership Grants support public school teachers, public education support professionals, and/or faculty and staff in public institutions of higher education for one of two purposes: grants to individuals fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research; grants to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment.
Award: $5,000
Eligibility: Public school teachers grades K–12; public school education support professionals; or faculty and staff at public higher education institutions
Deadline: October 15, 2007
For more information: http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/Learning&Leadership_Guidelines.htm
Title: Outstanding Young Educator Award NEW!
Funder: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Description: The Outstanding Young Educator Award recognizes a teacher under the age of 40 who demonstrates excellence in his or her profession, a positive impact on students, creativity in the classroom, and leadership in his or her school or district.
Award: $10,000
Eligibility: K-12 teachers under age 40; no self-nominations accepted
Deadline: October 15, 2007
For more information: http://servicelearning.org/resources/funding_sources/index.php?popup_id=242
Title: 2008 Magna Awards NEW!
Funder: American School Board Journal (ASBJ)
Description: The Magna Awards are presented in recognition of best practices in school districts. Common threads that run through many of the winning programs include community, collaboration, and partnership. Awards are handed out in three enrollment categories—under 5,000, 5,001 to 20,000, and more than 20,000.
Award: Grand prize winners in each category receive national recognition in a special supplement to ASBJ, are honored at a luncheon at the National School Boards Association’s annual conference, and receive a $3,500 cash award from Sodexho.
Deadline: October 19, 2007
For more information: Nominations this year are being accepted only on an online basis. For more information, call (703) 838-6739 or visit http://www.asbj.com/MainMenuCategory/Supplements/MagnaAwards.aspx
November 2007
Title: Braitmayer Foundation K-12 Education Grants
Funder: Braitmayer Foundation
Description: The Foundation is interested in K-12 education throughout the United States. Of particular interest are curricular and school reform initiatives and preparation of and professional development opportunities for teachers.
Award: $10,000 and $35,000
Eligibility: K-12 education throughout the United States
Deadline: November 15, 2007
For more information: http://www.braitmayerfoundation.org/guid.htm
Title: Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People NEW!
Funder: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Description: The CDC announces the availability of 2008 funds for cooperative agreements between the CDC and State Education Agencies (SEA), State Health Agencies (SHA), Territorial Education Agencies (TEA), Federally Recognized American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal Governments (TG), and large urban Local Education Agencies (LEA) to improve health and educational outcomes of young people through establishing and strengthening coordinated school health programs. Funding is made available to
- Monitor critical health-related behaviors among high school students through implementation of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).
- Enable schools to implement effective policies and practices to prevent and reduce sexual risk behaviors among students that contribute to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
- Enable schools to implement coordinated school health programs and, through this approach effective policies and practices to promote physical activity, improve nutrition, and reduce tobacco use among students.
- Enable schools to implement effective policies and practices to prevent and reduce asthma episodes and absences among students with asthma.
- Provide professional development including training and technical assistance to SEA, SHA, TEA, TG, and LEA funded under this program announcement.
Award: Up to $475,000
Eligibility: Large urban LEAs
Deadline: November 21, 2007
For more information: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/FOA-801/
December 2007
Title: National Schools of Character
Funder: Character Education Partnership (CEP)
Description: Every year, the Character Education Partnership (CEP) names 10 public and private schools and districts (K-12) as National Schools of Character (NSOC) for their outstanding work in character education. The purpose of the awards program is to honor these exemplars, showcase their work, and help them to inspire and lead others
Award: $20,000
Eligibility: To be eligible, a school must have been engaged in character education for a minimum of three full years, starting no later than December 2004 for the 2008 awards. Districts need to have been engaged in character education for a minimum of four full years, starting no later than December 2003. Schools must have a minimum of 175 students to apply. Previous National Schools of Character are ineligible to apply. Smaller administrative units that maintain a separate identity within a large district may apply in the district category, e.g., a school pyramid or cluster.
Deadline: December 03, 2007
For more information: http://www.character.org/nsoc
January 2008
Title: Community Action Grants NEW!
Funder: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
Description: One-year grants provide seed money for new projects. Two-year grants offer start-up funds for longer-term programs that address the particular needs of the community and provide opportunities for female leadership or advocacy. Topic areas are unrestricted, but should include a clearly defined activity that promotes education and equity for women and girls.
Award: One-year grants ($2,000 to $7,000), two-year grants ($5,000 to $10,000)
Eligibility: Applicants must be women who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Grant projects must be nonpartisan, and take place within the United States or its territories.
Deadline: January 15, 2008
For more information: http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/community_action.cfm
Title: Community Grant Program
Funder: Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation
Description: Created to support frontline educators who often do not have a voice in funding decisions, the program will subsidize small, concrete projects to improve inner-city education in Boston, Hartford, Providence, or New York City. The proposed use of the grant must be to fund a specific, one-time future education-related need or idea that promises to improve inner-city education within one year of the grant award.
Award: The foundation will generally consider grant applications monthly and award grants in an amount totaling not more than $2,000 in any one month.
Eligibility: The applicant must be a "frontline educational worker" who is involved in education or a related field in one of the communities eligible for grants. The proposed recipient must be a non-profit or tax-exempt organization (e.g., a public school) that is willing to accept the grant and use it in the required manner.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.brownrudnickcenter.com/foundation/communitygrant.asp
Title: Public Welfare Foundation Youth Priority
Funder: Public Welfare Foundation
Description: The Youth Program promotes the positive development of young people through improving access to quality education and training, adequate health services, leadership development, and empowerment. This program emphasizes the following: employment, training, and alternative education, early intervention, youth leadership development, violence prevention, advocacy and policy development
Award: $25,000 and $50,000
Eligibility: New applications - including both requests for first-time support and projects that have not received funding from the Foundation in the recent past - should be submitted in the form of a three-part letter of inquiry in English (checklist). If we determine that a letter of inquiry fits our funding priorities, and if resources are available, we will request a full proposal.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.publicwelfare.org/first_time/first_time.asp
Title: The Starbucks Foundation Grants
Funder: Starbucks Foundation
Description: Inspired by Jonathan Kozol’s 1995 book Amazing Grace about children in the South Bronx, Howard Schultz, Starbucks founder and chairman, established the Starbucks Foundation in 1997. The mission: to create hope, discovery and opportunity in communities where Starbucks partners (employees) live and work. Since then the Starbucks Foundation has maintained a focus on improving young peoples’ lives by supporting literacy programs for children and families. To date, the Foundation has provided over $12 million to more than 700 youth focused organizations in the United States and Canada.
Award: $5,000-$20,000
Eligibility: qualifying 501 (c) 3 organizations that work with underserved youth in the fields of literacy (reading, writing and creative/media arts) and environmental literacy.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/grantinfo.asp
Title: Youth and Education Grants
Funder: WK Kellogg Foundation
Description: The goal of youth and education programming is to support healthy infant, child, and youth development by mobilizing, strengthening, and aligning systems that affect children's learning.
Award: Not specified.
Eligibility: To be eligible for a grant, the organization or institution, as well as the purpose of the proposed project, must qualify under regulations of the United States Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) organization.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=54&CID=3&NID=17&LanguageID=0
Title: Boeing Education Grants
Funder: Boeing
Description: Boeing aligns and leverages our resources to support systemic and continuous improvement in school systems. Regarding early learning, we support organizations that promote developmentally appropriate early childhood education programs for classroom teachers, caregivers and parents. For K-12, we support programs that promote teacher effectiveness, with an emphasis on math, science, literacy instruction and school leadership.
Award: n/a
Eligibility: Please note that you must be a U.S.-based IRS 501(c)(3) qualified charitable or educational organization or an accredited K-12 educational institution to apply for a Boeing grant.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/community/guidelines.htm
Title: The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Grants
Funder: The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
Description: Deutsche Bank's commitment to the revitalization of low- and moderate-income communities is complemented by its support of public education. With a goal of achieving successful and high-performing neighborhood schools, resources are directed to programs and institutions that have proven effective in improving student learning and raising academic performance. Grants support teacher training and development, and public / private educational partnerships. In addition, education grants promote financial literacy and opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in business and finance
Award: N/A
Eligibility: The Foundation will occasionally accept unsolicited proposals from nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt status (under section 501 (c) (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code) that meet the criteria outlined in the Foundation guidelines above.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.community.db.com/
Title: Effectiveness, Practice, and Implementation in CMHS's Children's Sites
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
Description: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), invites research grant applications on services delivered to children, adolescents, and their families through the Center for Mental Health Services’ (CMHS) Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program initiative (hereafter referred to as the “Children’s Services Program”). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages studies of the effectiveness of interventions delivered at these sites, the nature and impact of routine prevention or clinical practice, and factors related to successful implementation of preventive or treatment interventions.
Award: Up to $450,000
Eligibility: For-profit/non-profit, public/private, domestic/foreign institutions are eligible to apply.
Expiration/Closing Date: July 6, 2009
For more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-091.html
Title: Annenberg Foundation Grants
Funder: Annenberg Foundation
Description: The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance public well-being through improved communication. As a principal means of achieving this goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health.
Award: N/A
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/grants/
Title: RGK Foundation Grants
Funder: RGK Foundation
Description: RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health. The Foundation's primary interests within Education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education.
Award: $25,000
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.rgkfoundation.org/guidelines.php#programs
Funder: The Wallace Foundation
Description: Our mission is to support and share effective ideas and practices that enable institutions to expand learning and enrichment opportunities for all people. To achieve this, we are focusing exclusively on three major areas:
- Strengthening educational leadership in ways that significantly improve student achievement.
- Helping selected cities make high-quality out-of-school learning opportunities available to many more children.
- Making the arts a part of many more people’s lives by working with arts organizations, schools and other providers of arts education and experience to build both present and future arts audiences.
Award: N/A
Eligibility: We identify and evaluate prospective grantees through the issuance of Requests for Proposals or other careful screening processes, and unsolicited proposals are rarely funded. Organizations wishing to send a one- to two-page letter of inquiry (please do not send videotapes or e-mail inquiries) describing the project, your organization, the estimated total for the project and the portion requiring funding, should write to:
The Wallace Foundation
General Management
5 Penn Plaza, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Deadline: N/A
For more information: http://www.wallacefoundation.org/WF/GrantsPrograms/
GrantApproach/FundingGuidelines.htm
Title: Rosie's For All Kids Foundation Grants
Funder: Rosie's For All Kids Foundation
Description:
The grant programs are currently organized into two main areas:
Early Childhood Care And Education
Direct service grants focusing on tuition subsidies, small renovation projects, supplies and equipment upgrades, playground construction and staff development opportunities.
Cutie Patootie™ Centers
Capacity building grants providing capital support for new building and renovation projects to expand access to high quality care and education centers in low-income, major urban communities. Please note that the Foundation accepts Cutie Patootie™ Center proposals by invitation only.
Award: $15,000 and $40,000
Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations providing low-income children with early childhood care and education services located in major urban centers within the domestic U.S. Awarded grants are issued only to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping low-income children and their families through quality childcare and early childhood education curriculum.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.forallkids.org/site.php
Title: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Grants Program
Funder: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Description: The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation believes that all children are capable of learning and achieving at high levels and deserve a quality public education. The Foundation seeks to help traditionally underserved children in large urban centers evolve into active, contributing members of society by helping them prepare for college and the workforce. In the U.S., MSDF funds system-level initiatives to raise performance expectations; enable and support teachers, principals, and district employees; and engage all stakeholders in a united effort to drive student achievement gains in public schools.
Award: $500-several million
Eligibility: Applicants must be applying on behalf of a charitable or tax-exempt organization. MSDF seeks to fund projects that directly serve or impact children in five essential focus areas: education, health, safety, youth development and early childhood care.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.msdf.org/priorities/default.aspx
Title: Striving Readers Program
Funder: U.S Dept. of Education
Description: The purpose of the Striving Readers program is to raise the reading achievement levels of middle and high school-aged students in Title I-eligible schools with significant numbers of students reading below grade level. The program supports new comprehensive reading initiatives or expansion of existing initiatives that improve the quality of literacy instruction across the curriculum, provide intensive literacy interventions to struggling adolescent readers, and help to build a strong, scientific research base for identifying and replicating strategies that improve adolescent literacy skills.
Award: varies
Eligibility: Eligible applicants for Striving Readers include LEAs that have schools that are eligible to receive funds under Part A of Title I of the ESEA, pursuant to section 1113 of the ESEA, and serve students in one or more grades in grades 6 through 12.
Deadline: N/A
For more information: http://www.ed.gov/programs/strivingreaders/index.html
Title: Allstate Foundation Grants
Funder: Allstate Foundation
Description: The Allstate Foundation supports national and local programs that fit within three focus areas. Proposals for program support must address needs within one of the three focus areas to be considered for funding: Safe and vital communities, economic empowerment, and tolerance, inclusion and diversity.
Award: varies
Eligibility: The Allstate Foundation makes grants to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.allstate.com/Community/PageRender.asp?Page=foundation.html#
Title: GTECH After School Advantage
Funder: GTECH
Description: The GTECH After School Advantage Program is a national community investment program, which provides non-profit community agencies with state-of-the-art computer labs. These Computer Centers are designed to provide inner-city children (ages 5–15) with a meaningful, yet fun, learning experience during the critical after-school hours in a safe environment. This initiative is meant to provide an otherwise unavailable educational experience and bridge the digital divide among at-risk children. By applying our knowledge and expertise to this type of program GTECH hopes to increase children's interest in careers in computers and provide them with the necessary tools to help them become more competitive in school and in today's job market.
Eligibility: The potential recipients must be a nonprofit 501(C)(3) community agency, be located in a jurisdiction in which GTECH does business, have an existing after-school program in need of a computer lab, serve disadvantaged youth aged five to 15, of diverse backgrounds, and have staffing and monetary support systems in place to sustain the lab.
Award: $15,000
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.gtech.com/about_gtech/proposal_guidelines.asp
Title: Ford Motor Company Fund Grants
Funder: Ford Motor Company Fund
Description: Ford Fund supports not-for-profit organizations in three major areas: Innovation and Education, Community Development and American Legacy, and Auto-Related Safety Education. Through our active involvement, we seek to build partnerships with organizations that have a well-defined sense of purpose, a demonstrated commitment to maximizing available resources, and a reputation for meeting objectives and delivering quality programs and services. We place priority on the support and development of organizations that promote diversity and inclusion.
Award: varies
Eligibility: Organizations with 501(c)(3) status
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.ford.com/en/goodWorks/fundingAndGrants/fordMotorCompanyFund/default.htm
Title: UPS Foundation Education Grants
Funder: UPS Foundation
Description: Educational programs including academic research, programs that raise the level of educational instruction, family learning opportunities, and school involvement projects.
Award: varies
Eligibility: The UPS Foundation will consider high impact philanthropic programs and projects from organizations recognized as tax-exempt under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.community.ups.com/philanthropy/grant.html
Title: Ready to Learn; Ready to Work; Ready to Live
Funder: The Prudential Foundation
Description: Ready to Learn: Education reform efforts that strengthen public education at the elementary school level. Within this framework, we will emphasize systemic school reform; improving the quality of teachers, principals and other school leaders, and arts education. Ready to Live: Community well-being, which includes initiatives that build healthy children, youth and families; community-based human services for underserved populations and high-impact national projects that address major human services issues affecting children and families.
Award: Varies
Eligibility: The Foundation has geographic priorities. See link below for details.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.prudential.com/productsAndServices/0,1474,intPageID%253D1440%2526bln
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Title: 3M Community Giving
Funder: 3M Foundation
Description: The Community Giving program aims to positively impact 3M communities by investing in initiatives that serve youth and families. Priorities program areas: K-12 education; higher education; health and human services; arts and culture; and environment.
Award: No less than $1,000 ($20 million available annually)
Eligibility: Non-profit organizations located in 3M communities.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/
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Title: Youth Service Grants
Funder: William T. Grant Foundation
Description: The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation's Youth Service Grants initiative is to support local programs that actively engage young people and enable them to reach their full potential.
Award: $5,000 - $25,000
Eligibility: Programs in the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/info-url_nocat3042/info-url_nocat_list.htm?attrib_id=4399
Title: Washington Mutual Corporate Giving
Funder: Washington Mutual
Description: Washington Mutual makes grants to education programs that benefit K-12 public schools where a majority of students receive free and reduced-price lunches. Grants are focused in the areas of professional development for teachers and principals and school improvement strategies.
Award: Two tracks: Above 10K, below 10K.
Eligibility: Non-profit organizations in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, MA, NV, NJ, NY, PR, PA, SC, TX, UT, WA.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.wamu.com/about/community/grantsguidelines/k12publiceducation.asp
Title: Kroger Foundation Corporate Giving
Funder: The Kroger Co. Foundation
Description: Grants are made to support education and youth, feed the hungry, and assist local arts and civic organizations.
Award: Not specified
Eligibility: Only proposals from 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations are considered for Foundation assistance.
Deadline: Rolling
For more information: http://www.thekrogerco.com/corpnews/corpnewsinfo_charitablegiving.htm
Title: Expanding Access to Healthcare: The Catalyst Fund
Funder: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Description: The Catalyst Fund enables community-based organizations to improve their ability to serve their constituents by remaining viable. The funds are reserved for community-based organizations that serve the health care needs of low-income and uninsured residents.
Award: Up to $2,500
Eligibility: Community-based organizations.
Deadline: Organizations are able to apply for a Catalyst Fund grant at any time during the year. Applications are reviewed once a month and organizations are notified within several weeks.
For more information: http://www.bcbsmafoundation.org/foundationroot/en_US/grants/focusArea.jsp
Title: Hasbro Children's Foundation Grants Program
Funder: Hasbro Children's Foundation
Description: The Hasbro Children's Foundation strives to fund programs that improve the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of children from birth through age 12. Priorities include creating safe and caring environments for children, services that help young children join their peers in learning and achieving, and programs that allow the most vulnerable children to experience joyful moments in their everyday lives.
Award: Grants for local programs range from $500 to $35,000; others may get awards of $35,000 or more.
Eligibility: Innovative, nonprofit programs that have strong local or national impact and can be replicated nationally will be considered for funding.
Deadline: Ongoing
For more information: http://www.hasbro.org/default.cfm?page=grantmaking
Title: Office of Victims of Crime National Conference Support Program Guidelines
Funder: Office of Victims of Crime
Description: Eligible organizations can receive support for conference logistics, needs related to conference speakers/trainers, meeting space, and materials. Funded areas include community violence, capacity building, program evaluation, and models for collaboration.
Award: Not specified
Eligibility: Eligible organizations must have a nationwide membership and/or provide services to crime victims/survivors nationwide. See additional details on website below.
Deadline: Must apply at least 6 months prior to the scheduled event.
For more information: http://www.ovc.gov/assist/ncsp.html
