Current
Grant Opportunities and Resources
State Farm
Insurance
The following types of
grants for K-12 Public Schools will be considered by the State Farm
Foundation:
- Support for academic
achievement initiatives
--Funding for regional,
state, and local organizations that promote and support education
reform initiatives that do not engage in lobbying as their primary
activity
--Funding for public K-12 school programs and curriculum changes
that improve student achievement
- After-school programs
that focus on increasing students' academic achievement in math,
science, reading, and English as a second language
- Teacher excellence programs
that improve teacher quality
Deadline: Proposals are
accepted throughout the year. Requests for more than $100,000 are
considered quarterly.Under $100,000. if over this amount, then request
will be considered quarterly
For more information visit
State Farm Foundation web site @ http://www.statefarm.com/foundati/foundati.htm
Hewlett Packard
Technology for
Teaching Grant Initiative
This grant initiative is designed to support the innovative use of
technology in K-16 education, and to help identify K-12 schools and
higher education institutions that HP might support with future grants.
Eligibility: HP will select
teams of five teachers from at least 150 schools to receive the equipment,
professional development and support they need to effectively integrate
technology into their instruction. Preference will be given to low-income
schools, relative to district or state free and reduced price lunch
percentages and to projects that include integration of mathematics
and/or science curriculum
Grant award: The 2004 HP K-12 Technology for Teaching Grant award
includes several elements. Each of the five teachers on the school's
project team will receive:
- an HP Tablet PC
- an HP multimedia projector
- HP Help Desk technical
support for one year
- a $500 stipend
- customized professional
development opportunities to support the use of technology in their
teaching
Deadline: March 1, 2004,
5 p.m. (Pacific time) The website opens on January 15, 2004 for grant
proposal submissions. Applicants are encouraged to register their
intent to apply at http://grants.hp.com/us/programs/tech_teaching/register.html
National Education
Association (NEA) Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE)
Purpose of Grants: The NEA Foundation (NFIE) provides grants to teachers,
education support professionals, and higher education faculty and
staff in public schools, colleges, and universities for the purpose
of engaging in high-quality professional development or implementing
innovative ideas that raise student achievement.
Amount of Grants: The NFIE makes 2 types of grants:
- Learning and Leadership:
($2000--$5000) Grants to individuals will fund the recipients to
participate in high-quality professional development experiences,
such as summer institutes or action research. Grants to groups will
fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson
study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment.
- Innovation Grants: (up
to $5000) Grants will support collaborative efforts by two or more
colleagues to develop and implement creative and unique ideas that
result in high student achievement.
Proposed projects can focus on use of technology in the classroom.
Deadline: Applications
may be submitted at any time. Applicants are encouraged to plan ahead.
Applications are reviewed three times per year. For funding schedule
visit web site @ http://www.nfie.org/grants.htm
SBC Knowledge Network
Explorer’s Grant Opportunities
It is an ideal “how
to” get started in your grant seeking, writing, and follow-though.
SBC is a good source of in-kind contributions including professional
development workshops, network and other consulting, demonstrations,
letters of support, and more. Include your local SBC Account Team,
Education Advocate, or Library Advocate in your grant discussions.
For other grant opportunities access the California LIBRARY News,
which can be accessed through the link at the top left corner of SBC's
Knowledge Network Explorer.
For more information http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/grants/index.html
SchoolGrants.org
SchoolGrants was created
in 1999 as a way to share grant information with PK-12 educators.
The SchoolGrants goal is to help the most kids possible by empowering
those who teach them with the knowledge and resources necessary to
write successful grant proposals. Site offers a list of grants that
are available from the government, as well as grants from foundations
at the national and regional level.
For more information: http://www.schoolgrants.org/grant_opps.htm
ESchool News Ongoing
Grant Opportunities
This up-to-the-minute list
of grant programs and new funding sources can help you locate those
hard-to-find technology dollars.
For more information: http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/funding/ongoing.cfm
Foundation Center: Finding
Funders
Definitive list of foundations
that offer grants. Search more than 2,400 annotated links to grantmaker
Web sites. The links are categorized by grantmaker type, and all annotations
are searchable.
For more information: http://fdncenter.org/funders/
