I could tell you that you should write a short grant during the holiday break. You’ll probably have a little extra time during the ten days to two weeks that you’re on vacation from school. A lot of grant deadlines are listed for December 31st, so that makes it a good time to write a grant and get it in just under the wire. Also, the competition will be limited, because, let’s face it, how many people will actually get around to applying for a grant during the holiday break?
Having said all that, I’m not going to recommend that you apply for a grant during your break because you probably wouldn’t do it anyway. I am going to suggest that you take a few hours during your vacation time and do some grant research.
The first research I would do is to examine the mid-term assessments you will likely be administering before the holidays. These assessments could be for the district, a single campus, or even a classroom, but they likely contain information that will help you get grant money for the spring semester or summer school.
Basically, you want to identify two types of programs from your assessments. You want to know the programs you have in place that are not as productive as they should be. You set goals for each program at the beginning of the year. The first thing you are looking for are programs where the students simply are not progressing as they should. They won’t reach their goals by the end of the year. You will need to make changes to those programs early in the spring semester, and you may not have the money to make those changes. If you don’t make changes, you are unlikely to reach your goals. If you make the right changes and get grant money to help you, you just might be able to turn the program around and still meet your goals.
You should also be studying your assessments for another type of program: one that is working remarkably well. If you just keep doing what you’re doing, your students will far surpass the goals you set. But what would happen if you were able to expand that program to other students, other grade levels, or other buildings? Chances are, they would get the same extraordinary results. You can use your assessment data to write a grant to expand your services to those larger groups. This type of assessment data can be very persuasive to grantors if you use it properly and make a thorough analysis of why you are being so successful.
The other research I would do during the holiday break revolves around school grant databases. As you probably know, I am a strong proponent of using grant databases. They save an unbelievable amount of time and effort. Discount School Supply® provides you with an excellent free grant database where you can find grants listed under a wide variety of topics. You need to take a few hours and do a comprehensive search using that database just to see what all is available to you.
You would probably be amazed at the number of grants available, the amount of money available, and how simple some grant applications are to complete. If you are going after grant money for a district, campus, or classroom, knowing the content of the Discount School Supply® database can be invaluable to you. It’s certainly worth a few hours of your time on the Internet to explore everything that’s available.
No, I’m not asking you to spend all your holiday vacation working on one grant application after another. Just do some research so you’re ready to start filling out grant applications when you go back to school. Study those mid-year assessments to find those programs which are failing miserably. Then find the programs that are working remarkably well. Repair the failing programs and expand the ones that are working. And finally, do some research using the Discount School Supply® grant database. It’s free and it’s a perfect resource for finding the grants you need.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant Name: Verizon
Innovative App Challenge
Program Areas: General Education, Math, Science/Environment
Funded by: Verizon
Description: The
Verizon Innovative App Challenge provides the opportunity for middle school and
high school students, working with a faculty advisor, to use their STEM
knowledge, their ingenuity, and their creativity to come up with an original
mobile app concept that incorporates STEM and addresses a need or problem in
their school or community. Each of the 10 winning schools (5 middle school and
5 high school teams) will receive $10,000 cash grants plus professional support
and training to help them bring their designs to life by building their apps
and bringing them to the marketplace. Students on each winning team will
receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab and be invited to present their developed apps in
person—on their new tablets—at the 2013 National Technology Student Association
Conference in Orlando, Florida in June.
Program Areas: General Education, Math, Science/Environment
Recipients: Public
School, Private School
Proposal Deadline: 1/18/13
Average Amount: $10,000.00
Availability: All States
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Funded by: National
Education Association (NEA) Foundation and Nickelodeon
Description: The
NEA Foundation – Nickelodeon Big Help Grants are available in the form of
Student Achievement grants to K-8 public school educators. The Big Help Grants program
is dedicated to the development and implementation of ideas, techniques, and
approaches for addressing four key concerns – environmental awareness, health
and wellness, students’ right to a quality public education, and active
community involvement. The grants target these four concerns as areas of great
promise in helping develop a sense of global awareness in 21st century students
that will encourage and enable them to make a difference in their world. Both
the NEA Foundation and Nickelodeon are strongly committed to supporting the
development of these skills and attributes for America’s students.
Program Areas: General
Education, Math, Reading, Science/Environment, Social Studies
Recipients: Public
School, Private School
Proposal Deadline: 2/1/13
Average Amount: $2,000.00
- $5,000.00
Contact
Person:
Jesse Graytock, Grants Manager
Availability: All States
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant Name: Sodexo
Foundation Youth Grants
Proposal Deadline: 1/31/13
Funded by: Sodexo
Foundation
Description: More
than 16 million children live in food insecure homes, not always sure where
their next meal will come from. That’s why YSA and Sodexo Foundation are
calling on young people to “take hunger personally” and join the fight to end
childhood hunger. Sodexo Foundation Youth Grants of $500 grants are available
for youth-led service projects that bring together young people, families,
Sodexo employees and other community members to address childhood hunger. U.S.
young people, ages 5-25, are eligible to apply. Projects will take place on or
around Global Youth Service Day, April 26-28, 2013.
Program Areas: At-Risk/Character,
Community Involvement/Volunteerism
Recipients: Public
School, Private School, Other
Proposal Deadline: 1/31/13
Average Amount: $500.00
Contact
Person:
Amanda McDonald
Availability: All States
Monday, December 10, 2012
Grants for Closing Achievement Gaps
In one way or another most grant money is used in an attempt to close achievement gaps between different groups of students. A lot of grants specifically list money as being available primarily to economically disadvantaged students. That, in itself, lets you know that money is designated to help you close achievement gaps.
Since our great country was partially founded on the principle of giving an equal opportunity to all, it is not unusual that a great deal of grant money given by the federal government, state governments, foundations, and corporations is given to close achievement gaps between economically disadvantaged students and those who are not disadvantaged. While it is not usually stated so overtly, in essence, closing the achievement gap in most schools is an attempt to give all students an equal shot at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As a matter of fact, as a group, those who drop out of school or end their school careers far behind their peers are likely to die younger, commit more crimes, spend more time incarcerated, earn far less, and have more broken homes.
In other words, while a good education does not guarantee you fulfillment of the American dream, the lack of a good education certainly makes it that much harder to achieve. That’s why almost all teachers and principals work their hardest to give every child a good education. That’s also why so many grantors give money to those who are specifically attempting to close the achievement gaps in their districts, their buildings, and in their classrooms.
If most of the students in your district do not achieve anywhere close to the national or state norms, grant money should be readily available. Let me hasten to add, however, that if you have gotten lots of grant money in the past and did little to close the achievement gap between your students and those in other districts, grant money may get harder and harder to come by without some drastic changes in the structure and practices of your district. I believe the warning to grantors is, “Don’t throw good money after bad.” Grantors are reluctant to keep spending money when the grant recipients have had little or no success in the past.
If you are looking to close the achievement gap between a campus and other campuses in your district, you should still find plenty of grants available. Again, the key is to show success with your initial grant and that will make it easier if you need to apply for other grant money. This type of achievement gap can be a sore spot for you, especially if your students come from similar neighborhoods and/or from families with similar economic circumstances. If that happens to be the case, it is imperative that you visit other campuses where students are consistently achieving as they should, then do most of the same things they do. If something works, use it. Don’t think that your situation is so unique that you have to invent some new solution to the problem.
Finally, it is a rare classroom that does not have some achievement gaps. These achievement gaps have almost nothing to do with gender or race and everything to do with some students being economically disadvantaged. It’s a safe bet that the class you got from the grade below already had severe achievement gaps from day one. To close these gaps, your disadvantaged students will have to grow at a more rapid rate than those who are not disadvantaged. That may mean they need to spend more time on such things as reading and math, and they need more help in the form of tutoring before or after school. To close the gap, you must provide something that changes their rate of learning so that they can grow at a faster rate than other students. To provide these things, you may need grant money.
I believe the United States is still the finest country on the planet. It can only stay that way if we continue to follow the democratic principles on which it was founded. We must provide an education to all children that allows them to pursue the American dream --- whatever that may be in their eyes. In education, the first step to doing that is to close the achievement gaps between those who are economically disadvantaged and those who are not.
Fortunately, millions of dollars of grant money are spent every year on this very problem. Make sure your school is getting its share of that money and also doing its part to close those achievement gaps.
Since our great country was partially founded on the principle of giving an equal opportunity to all, it is not unusual that a great deal of grant money given by the federal government, state governments, foundations, and corporations is given to close achievement gaps between economically disadvantaged students and those who are not disadvantaged. While it is not usually stated so overtly, in essence, closing the achievement gap in most schools is an attempt to give all students an equal shot at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As a matter of fact, as a group, those who drop out of school or end their school careers far behind their peers are likely to die younger, commit more crimes, spend more time incarcerated, earn far less, and have more broken homes.
In other words, while a good education does not guarantee you fulfillment of the American dream, the lack of a good education certainly makes it that much harder to achieve. That’s why almost all teachers and principals work their hardest to give every child a good education. That’s also why so many grantors give money to those who are specifically attempting to close the achievement gaps in their districts, their buildings, and in their classrooms.
If most of the students in your district do not achieve anywhere close to the national or state norms, grant money should be readily available. Let me hasten to add, however, that if you have gotten lots of grant money in the past and did little to close the achievement gap between your students and those in other districts, grant money may get harder and harder to come by without some drastic changes in the structure and practices of your district. I believe the warning to grantors is, “Don’t throw good money after bad.” Grantors are reluctant to keep spending money when the grant recipients have had little or no success in the past.
If you are looking to close the achievement gap between a campus and other campuses in your district, you should still find plenty of grants available. Again, the key is to show success with your initial grant and that will make it easier if you need to apply for other grant money. This type of achievement gap can be a sore spot for you, especially if your students come from similar neighborhoods and/or from families with similar economic circumstances. If that happens to be the case, it is imperative that you visit other campuses where students are consistently achieving as they should, then do most of the same things they do. If something works, use it. Don’t think that your situation is so unique that you have to invent some new solution to the problem.
Finally, it is a rare classroom that does not have some achievement gaps. These achievement gaps have almost nothing to do with gender or race and everything to do with some students being economically disadvantaged. It’s a safe bet that the class you got from the grade below already had severe achievement gaps from day one. To close these gaps, your disadvantaged students will have to grow at a more rapid rate than those who are not disadvantaged. That may mean they need to spend more time on such things as reading and math, and they need more help in the form of tutoring before or after school. To close the gap, you must provide something that changes their rate of learning so that they can grow at a faster rate than other students. To provide these things, you may need grant money.
I believe the United States is still the finest country on the planet. It can only stay that way if we continue to follow the democratic principles on which it was founded. We must provide an education to all children that allows them to pursue the American dream --- whatever that may be in their eyes. In education, the first step to doing that is to close the achievement gaps between those who are economically disadvantaged and those who are not.
Fortunately, millions of dollars of grant money are spent every year on this very problem. Make sure your school is getting its share of that money and also doing its part to close those achievement gaps.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant Name: Fuel
Up to Play 60
Funded by: National
Dairy Council and National Football League
Description: The
competitive funding initiative provides money to help schools jump-start and
sustain healthy nutrition and physical activity improvements.
Program Areas: General
Education, Health/PE
Recipients: Public
School
Proposal Deadline: 1/15/13
Average Amount: $1,000.00
- $4,000.00
Telephone: 800-752-4337
Availability: All
States
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Five Things to Do Before Winter Break
You still have a lot of school days between now and winter break. You want to make absolutely sure that you use them productively. I have listed five activities that should help. Several of these activities relate to getting grant money. All of them relate to being productive at a time when productivity can go out the window if you don’t plan carefully.
Between now and winter break, you may want to consider one or more these activities:
1) Have a read-a-thon. If you are going to do an early release, or if you just have a day or two when students are likely to be very antsy and not want to concentrate on school work, having a read-a-thon can help you calm students and get them to focus on a productive activity. I found classroom read-a-thons very productive as a teacher and school-wide read-a-thons productive as a principal.
2) Make sure you do mid-year testing if your semester ends anywhere close to winter break. Students should have made measurable gains in every program, and you especially need to measure those gains in the programs you funded with grant money. By measuring growth at mid-year, you can make adjustments to your program if the gains are inadequate or enhance your program even more if you find you’re heading in the right direction. Either way, you have to measure the growth your students have made during the first semester to fine tune your program for the second semester.
3) If your district will allow it, sponsor a food drive in your classroom or building. The holiday season is a great time for most families. It is the hardest of times for others. This gives you an opportunity to involve your students and teach them to give to those less fortunate than themselves. We need to teach students more than math and reading.
4) Write a grant or two. You only have about six weeks left to submit a grant that will benefit students during the second semester. If you write a couple of grants now (especially if they are foundation or corporate grants), you should get your money soon enough to impact your students during the second semester. Go past winter break and it becomes harder to get money that will be impactful in the second semester.
5) Form a grant committee, find a grant-writing partner, or hire a grant writer. If you determine that your campus or district needs grant money, and you don’t have a full-time grant writer (which most districts don’t), form a plan to write grants during the second semester. Yes, I know this will not help your students during the spring semester, but at least with this activity out of the way, you can make progress writing grants for summer school and for the fall semester. Planning now can pay great dividends in the future.
There you have it; five activities that will help you and your students have a better holiday season and get more done than you thought possible. Yes, the time between now and winter break can be hectic, but you can make it more calm and more productive if you plan properly.
Between now and winter break, you may want to consider one or more these activities:
1) Have a read-a-thon. If you are going to do an early release, or if you just have a day or two when students are likely to be very antsy and not want to concentrate on school work, having a read-a-thon can help you calm students and get them to focus on a productive activity. I found classroom read-a-thons very productive as a teacher and school-wide read-a-thons productive as a principal.
2) Make sure you do mid-year testing if your semester ends anywhere close to winter break. Students should have made measurable gains in every program, and you especially need to measure those gains in the programs you funded with grant money. By measuring growth at mid-year, you can make adjustments to your program if the gains are inadequate or enhance your program even more if you find you’re heading in the right direction. Either way, you have to measure the growth your students have made during the first semester to fine tune your program for the second semester.
3) If your district will allow it, sponsor a food drive in your classroom or building. The holiday season is a great time for most families. It is the hardest of times for others. This gives you an opportunity to involve your students and teach them to give to those less fortunate than themselves. We need to teach students more than math and reading.
4) Write a grant or two. You only have about six weeks left to submit a grant that will benefit students during the second semester. If you write a couple of grants now (especially if they are foundation or corporate grants), you should get your money soon enough to impact your students during the second semester. Go past winter break and it becomes harder to get money that will be impactful in the second semester.
5) Form a grant committee, find a grant-writing partner, or hire a grant writer. If you determine that your campus or district needs grant money, and you don’t have a full-time grant writer (which most districts don’t), form a plan to write grants during the second semester. Yes, I know this will not help your students during the spring semester, but at least with this activity out of the way, you can make progress writing grants for summer school and for the fall semester. Planning now can pay great dividends in the future.
There you have it; five activities that will help you and your students have a better holiday season and get more done than you thought possible. Yes, the time between now and winter break can be hectic, but you can make it more calm and more productive if you plan properly.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Check It Out: New Grant Opportinity!
Grant
Name: Library Grants
Funded
by: The
Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries
Description: The
Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries provides print books to the K-12
school libraries and students that need them the most. Grants of up to $5,000
are available to update, extend, and diversify the book collections of school
libraries throughout the United States. Grants are made to individual schools
rather than to school districts, foundations, or other entities.
Program
Areas: General Education, Library
Recipients: Public
School
Proposal
Deadline: 12/1/12
Average
Amount:
$5,000.00
Availability: All
States
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant Name: United
States-Japan Foundation Educational Grants
Website: http://www.us-jf.org
Availability: All States
Funded by: United
States-Japan Foundation
Description: Giving
primarily in the U.S. and Japan to promote stronger ties between Americans and
Japanese by supporting projects that foster mutual knowledge and education,
deepen understanding, create effective channels of communication, and address
common concerns in an increasingly interdependent world. The current focus of
grant making activities is in the areas of communication/public opinion,
precollege education and policy studies.
Program Areas: Community
Involvement/Volunteerism, General Education, Math, Reading, Science /Environment,
Social Studies
Recipients: Public
School, Private School, Higher Education, Other
Proposal Deadline: 12/15/12
Average Amount: $25,000.00
- $50,000.00
Telephone: 212-481-8753
Website: http://www.us-jf.org
Availability: All States
Monday, October 29, 2012
Don't Do This If You Want to Win Grant Money
I spend quite a bit of time on this blog giving you
very positive ways to win grant money. Sometimes these are major pieces of information that need to be followed
closely. At other times I give smaller
hints and tips that will simply set your application apart from others.
2) You ask for money for purposes that are almost never funded by grantors: a band trip, a trip to a foreign country, construction of a new athletic facility, etc. You can apply for these types of things repeatedly. Almost nobody will fund them unless it happens to be a well-funded local entity with a special interest in the program (think kids or grandkids).
3) You ask for money to keep or create a position which you will just happen to be filling yourself. You might get a grant to fund a position like this, but it’s a real long shot.
In this blog, however, I’d like to give you some
guidelines on what not to do if you
want to win grant money. If you make
these mistakes, you may spend a lot of time filling out a lot of applications
and never receive a dime of grant money.
The biggest mistake I see people make is that they
ask for grant money for the wrong reasons. This mistake can come in several forms:
1)
You ask for
money to go into your general budget without specifying any particular program
or use for the money. I don’t know of a
single grantor that will give you money just to increase your general fund.
2) You ask for money for purposes that are almost never funded by grantors: a band trip, a trip to a foreign country, construction of a new athletic facility, etc. You can apply for these types of things repeatedly. Almost nobody will fund them unless it happens to be a well-funded local entity with a special interest in the program (think kids or grandkids).
3) You ask for money to keep or create a position which you will just happen to be filling yourself. You might get a grant to fund a position like this, but it’s a real long shot.
The second largest mistake I see when people apply
for grants is simply not properly matching the grant to the grantor. If a grantor only funds science programs,
don’t send them an application for a reading program that has nothing to do
with science. They’re not going to fund
it. They won’t even read the
application. I’ve seen people fill out a
foundation application and then mail it to a hundred different foundations just
hoping they’ll get lucky. They
won’t. The application would have to be
too generic, and almost all of the applications won’t fit into the guidelines
of the grantors. This is one of the main
reasons you should use a grant database. Match your grant needs very closely to a few grantors, and then apply
only for those grants that closely match your needs.
Finally, the next biggest mistake that I see people
make when applying for grants is that they don’t fill out every section of the
applications they use. When you skip
parts of an application, you almost immediately disqualify your application on
a point basis. Competitive grants are
almost always scored by grant readers using a certain amount of points for each
section. If you don’t complete a section,
you are essentially taking yourself out of the competition.
I’ve seen grants that were given only to those who
scored 95 or better on the application. If you left a section blank that was worth 10 points, you automatically
removed yourself from the competition.
When completing an application, you must complete every section, and I
suggest you complete each section as if it were the only one on the
application. That’s the only way you’ll
be truly competitive.
I don’t usually approach grant writing from a
negative angle, but you at least need to know the biggest mistakes people make
when they apply for grants. Make sure
you have a good, educational purpose for the grant money you seek. Make sure you match your needs very closely
with the purpose of the grantor. Finally, make sure you fill out every section of your grant application.
If you don’t make any of these big mistakes, you
have a much better chance of winning the grant money you need.
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant Name: Painting
A Bright Future
Funded by: True
Value Foundation
Description: Put
a fresh face on your community's school: Apply for a Painting a Brighter Future
grant As the economy struggles and education budgets shrink, children all over
- many in our own neighborhoods - need our help more than ever to receive the
education they deserve in well-maintained environments. For a school in need,
even something as simple as a new coat of paint can energize a dreary
classroom, inspire teachers and motivate students. That's why, in partnership
with True Value retailers, the True Value Foundation provides grants for up to
40 gallons of paint through the Painting a Brighter Future program to more than
100 schools each year. Since 2009, we've covered more than 3 million square
feet of classrooms with a fresh coat of assistance.
Program Areas: Facilities/Maintenance,
General Education, Math, Reading, Science/Environment, Social Studies
Recipients: Public
School
Deadline: 11/30/12
Average Amount: Up
to 40 gallons of paint
Availability: All
States
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant Name: Project
Ignition
Funded by: The
National Youth Leadership Council and State Farm
Description: Project
Ignition, a student-led teen driver safety program funded by State Farm and
coordinated by the National Youth Leadership Council, has announced the
availability of grants for public high schools to help students address teen
driver safety through service-learning. The project, now in its ninth year,
offers grants to students and their advisors interested in creating awareness
campaigns focused on teen driver safety while using service-learning — a
teaching method that combines meaningful community service with classroom
instruction. Youth-led teams host events, form community-wide partnerships,
work on local and state policy, produce public service announcements, and more.
Program Areas: At-Risk/Character,
General Education, Miscellaneous, Safe/Drug Free Schools, Transportation, All
Other
Recipients: Public
School
Proposal Deadline: 11/15/2012
Average Amount: $2,000.00
Telephone: 888-856-7026
Availability: All
States
Thursday, October 18, 2012
October/November: Time to Write Those Grants
Wow! This
school year is zipping by. Maybe I
shouldn’t say that. It might be going
really quickly for you, or it might seem as slow as molasses. One of my best friends had a schedule so bad
and a group of students so unruly one time that he started counting down the
days until June on his calendar the first week of school. I guess pretty much everything is relative.
You could say the same for grant writing at any
particular time of the year. You should
always be looking for your next grant to write regardless of the time of year,
but I can think of at least three good reasons that October and November may be
just about the best grant-writing months of the year.
First, by this time of the year, whether you’re in a
classroom or an administrative position, you should have everything settled
into a manageable routine. I’m not
saying you’re not busy. You’ll be busy
all year. I’m just saying things should
not be as hectic as they were at the beginning of school. That means you should be able to schedule in
some grant-writing time.
If you’re an avid reader of this blog, you know by
this time of the year, you should have already identified one or two problems
that need correcting that have in no way been adequately covered in the current
budget. You now need to narrow the field
down to your most urgent problem, develop a solution complete with a workable
budget, use a good grant database to find grants that fit your situation, and
start completing grant applications.
Again, I know you’re busy, but finding grant money
at this juncture of the year may be as important as anything else you’re
doing. It can literally turn a program
(and the lives of multiple children) around if done properly.
Another reason that October/November is such a good
grant-writing period is that you can still write grants that will impact the
current school year. If you win a grant
now, you should have the money available to you for the spring semester. You don’t have to wait until next year to
have an impact; you can have it now.
You have the added advantage of being able to start
writing grants for summer school now, too.
It’s not too early to begin thinking about how you
can get weak students caught up in the summer months with a good summer school
program. Personally, I would focus my
attention on the spring semester (because of the more immediate impact), but writing
grants during the fall months allows you the flexibility of also applying for
summer program grants
Finally, writing grants during October and November
allows you to choose from the thousands and thousands of grants that are
available this time of year. I believe more grants are announced in the fall
than at any other time of the year. You
need to take advantage of that fact.
Of course, you will have more competition when applying
for grants this time if year, but believe me, there are plenty of grants to go
around. Don’t put all your hopes on one
or two grant applications. Crank out as
many as you can with the time that you have. The more quality applications you send out, the more likely you are to
win grant money. It’s all a matter of
numbers, and I wouldn’t want you to put all your hopes into getting one big
grant and then be disappointed when you don’t get it.
October/November is prime grant-writing time. You should have a little more time to invest
right now than you did at the beginning of school. You can write grants for either the spring
semester or summer school. You have more
grants available than at any other time of the year. Those are three good reasons you should be
applying for multiple grants in the next six weeks.
Let’s get going.
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant
Name: Mathematics
Course Work Scholarships for Grades PreK-5 Teachers
Description: The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support for improving teachers’ understanding of mathematics by completing course work in mathematics. For 2013–2014, scholarships with a maximum of $2,000 each will be awarded to persons currently teaching at the grades PreK–5 level. Primary emphasis is placed on appropriate mathematics content courses. Mathematics education courses may also qualify if a suitable rationale is furnished by the applicant. Proposals must address the following: rationale for the coursework, anticipated instructional improvements and expected impact on student learning outcomes.
Funded
by: The
Dale Seymour Fund and NCTM
Description: The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support for improving teachers’ understanding of mathematics by completing course work in mathematics. For 2013–2014, scholarships with a maximum of $2,000 each will be awarded to persons currently teaching at the grades PreK–5 level. Primary emphasis is placed on appropriate mathematics content courses. Mathematics education courses may also qualify if a suitable rationale is furnished by the applicant. Proposals must address the following: rationale for the coursework, anticipated instructional improvements and expected impact on student learning outcomes.
Program
Areas: General Education, Math
Recipients: Public
School
Proposal
Deadline: 11/9/12
Average
Amount:
$1,000.00 - $2,000.00
Availability: All
States
Check It Out: New Grant Opportunity!
Grant Name: Kinder
Morgan Foundation Education Grants
Availability: All States
Funded by: Kinder
Morgan Foundation
Description: Grants
are primarily directed to educational programs for youth in grades K-12.
Funding is provided to local, state, provincial and regional educational
institutions, libraries and programs that provide ongoing support, such as
Junior Achievement. The foundation also supports youth programs provided by
local arts organizations, symphony orchestras, museums and others. Initial
approach is to contact the foundation for application form, which is required.
Program Areas: Arts,
Community Involvement/Volunteerism, General Education, Library, Math, Reading,
Science/Environment, Social Studies
Recipients: Public
School, Private School, Other
Proposal Deadline: 11/10/12
Average Amount: $1,000.00
- $25,000.00
Availability: All States