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NOTE:
You can sign up for periodic email
notifications from the Florida Department of Education as another source of
2008 funding opportunities. Visit the following website to
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**NEW** Satchels Pizza Grant
Up to 2 $500 grants per quarter will be awarded
to 2 different schools.
Grant applications
for January will be accepted up to December
31.
Grant
recipients will be notified on or before January 15.
What you will need:
~ A statement of need in which you explain how you will use these
funds to benefit your organization and our community.
~ A budget in which you explain how much money you are
requesting and where you will use the funds.
~ Information on how you hope to measure the
achievement made to your organization through the help of this grant.
For
complete application information, please go to the following link: http://www.satchelspizza.com/grant.html
GRU
Mini-Grants
Each calendar year, GRU sets aside funding to be used
in response to requests for financial support and/or sponsorships from
- Books
to supplement special education reading and struggling readers
- Materials
for workshops to promote life skills for at-risk students
- Globes
and maps
- Instructional
materials for preparation of the FCAT reading exam
The Mini-Grant application deadline is December 15th. Click here to complete our new online application!
Application must be completed by a school staff member
from an eligible school. If you have questions or would like to request a paper
application, please call (352) 393-1486.
2009 Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards
Applications are now being
accepted nationwide for individuals who implement creative learning programs in
their communities, helping to push education progress to new heights. The
annual Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards recognize outstanding educators,
administrators, policymakers, and other leaders at the forefront of innovation
in education.
The application and nomination period opens Wednesday, October 1, 2008
at www.LeadersInLearningAwards.org
(this is an online-only process). The application period for educators and for
nominating policymakers closes December 17, 2008.
Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards recognize a broad array of innovators,
including:
- Highly
inventive classroom educators, administrators, community leaders, and
policymakers who are transforming education from kindergarten through high
school.
- Those
who have had a major impact on educating youth both in and out of the
classroom.
- Those
who have adopted innovative learning practices that have transformed an
aspect of education on a large or small scale.
In addition to national and
local recognition, winners receive:
- A
$3,000 cash prize
- An
all-expense-paid trip to
- While
in
- Winners
will attend an awards ceremony with policymakers, government officials, leaders of the national education community, cable
industry executives, and other VIPS.
Cable's Leaders in
Learning Awards, administered by
Cable in the Classroom, recognize innovative programs in several categories
including: General Excellence, Cable Partnerships for Learning, and Media
Literacy Education. For more information on the awards and categories, to
hear podcast interviews with previous winners and to apply online, please
visit: www.LeadersInLearningAwards.org.
November
Opportunities
Nestle Very Best in Youth Program
Nestle, USA
Deadline: November 20, 2008
Maximum Award: $1000+
The Nestle Very Best
in Youth Program, sponsored by Nestlé USA, honors young people (ages 13 to 18)
who have excelled in school and who are making their community and the world a
better place. The young people, selected from nominations from volunteers,
parents, and teachers, will be featured in a special publication and honored at
a black-tie ceremony in
For more information, visit: http://www.nestle-verybestinyouth.com/.
December
Opportunities
2009 National Schools of Character Program
Character
Education Partnership
Deadline: December 8, 2008
Maximum Award: Up to $10,000
Every year, the
Character Education Partnership (CEP) names approximately 10 public and private
schools and districts (K–12) as National Schools of Character (NSOC) for
their outstanding work in character education. The awards program honors these
exemplars, showcases their work, and facilitates their leadership in the field
of character education.
NSOC winners receive a financial grant as high as $10,000. The amount of each
grant is based on the size of the school or district, the extensiveness of the
winner’s outreach plans, and available resources. Half of each grant is
used to enhance the winner’s program and send a team to present at the
CEP Forum; the other half is used for outreach to other educators. Outreach
efforts include providing staff development and mentoring to other schools or
districts.
The Center for Social and Character Development at
To participate, download the New Jersey Schools of Character application and
addendum from the CSCD website at: http://www.rucharacter.org/
For more information about the national program and grant, visit CEP’s website at: http://www.character.org/nsocapplicationprocess
Contact the Center for Social and Character Development at Rutgers
University – 732.445.7504.
Verizon
Foundation Education Grants
Deadline:
November 1, 2008
Maximum
Award: $5,000 - $10,000
The Verizon Foundation is in the business of improving lives in literacy,
knowledge and a readiness for the 21st Century. Specifically, they help
people to:
Increase their literacy and educational achievement
Avoid being an abuser or a victim of domestic violence
Achieve and sustain their health and safety
Eligible organizations seeking grants from the Verizon
Foundation must be prepared to track and report program outcomes as well as
specific results that demonstrate measurable human impact. In the grant
application, organizations must indicate what outcomes are targeted through
programming and what results, as specified on the grant application, the
organization will measure.
For more information, visit: the Verizon Foundation website at: http://foundation.verizon.com/grant/guidelines.shtml
Do Something
http://www.dosomething.org/Grant_list
Deadline: December 1, 2008
Entries Invited for State Farm Service-Learning Champion
Award Program
State Farm
is accepting nominations for the 2009 State Farm Service-Learning Champion
Award. This award recognizes the valuable role played by a non-traditional
advocate of service-learning such as a community member, business leader, or
public official. State Farm supports service-learning as a teaching
method that enhances the academic achievement of students while engaging in
service to the community.
Nominees
must be an adult community member, business leader, or public official from
outside the traditional service-learning ranks (cannot be a classroom teacher,
practitioner, or associate of a service-learning organization). The nominee
must have added significant value to the success of a youth-led
service-learning project that addressed a community need(s). Nominations
may be submitted by students, teachers, principals, community members, business
leaders, and public officials.
The award will be presented at the 20th Annual
National Service-Learning Conference in March 2009 in
January
Opportunities
Reader's Digest Foundation: 'Make It Matter' Grants
Deadline: January 1, 2009
Maximum Award: $100,000
"Make it Matter" is a new initiative of the Reader’s Digest
Foundation. The Foundation will give away $1 million to nonprofit organizations
based on inspiring stories submitted by the public. To identify people whose
stories of giving back inspire others, the foundation will donate funds to a
nonprofit organization associated with a particular story or cause. Anyone can
submit a story about an effective or inspiring group, which will be published
on the website; the nonprofits selected will receive funds up to
$100,000. Every month for ten months, Reader’s Digest will choose
one individual whose story of giving back serves as an inspiration to others.
For each story, the Reader’s Digest Foundation will donate $100,000 to a
nonprofit organization that is associated either with the story or the cause.
These individuals and their stories of giving back will appear every month in
the new "Make it Matter" column in Reader’s Digest and on
rd.com, beginning with the April issue. Deadline: Jan. 1, 2009.
http://www.rd.com/make-your-mark-make-a-difference/make-it-matter/article54800.html
Other
Opportunities
Nestle Very Best in Youth Program (Deadline: November
20)
http://www.nestle-verybestinyouth.com/AboutVBINY.aspx
Do Something Increase Your Green Competition (Deadline: December 8)
http://www.dosomething.org/increase_your_green
World
http://www.youthaward.org
The Volvo Adventure Environmental Project
Grants (Deadline:
January 31)
http://www.volvoadventure.org
Community Improvement Project Assistance from Lowe's (Deadline: Ongoing)
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=frameSet&url=apps.bridgetree.com/funding/default.asp
Deadline:
Dec 1st,
2008
Source: Goldman Sachs Foundation
Program:
Goldman Sachs Foundation High School Prize
Purpose: The Goldman Sachs Foundation High School Prize will
recognize a
secondary school that engages all or most of its students in learning about
Asia, Africa, Latin America or the
Deadline:
Dec 15th,
2008
Source: Disney and the NAMM
Foundation
Program:
Disney’s
The Music in You School Grant Program
Purpose: The NAMM Foundation and Disney's The Music in You Grant
Program invite public middle and high schools to apply for a grant to put
on their own school stage production of Disney's High School Musical or High
School Musical II. The public affairs initiative utilizes the popularity of
the High School Musical movies and the licensed amateur theater adaptions to encourage kids to get involved in music and
the arts.
Source: American Honda Foundation
Program:
American Honda Foundation Grants
Purpose: Organizations working in the areas of youth
and scientific education may be eligible for grants from the American Honda
Foundation. Our policy is to seek out those programs and organizations with a
well-defined sense of purpose, demonstrated commitment to making the best use
of available resources and a reputation for accomplishing their objectives. The
American Honda Foundation will make grants in the field of youth and scientific
education to: • Educational institutions, K-12 This grant supports
programs pertaining to academic or curriculum development that emphasize
innovative educational methods and techniques.
Next
Deadline: May
8th, 2009
Source: Sparkplug Foundation
Program:
Sparkplug
Foundation Grants Program
Purpose: Sparkplug aims to support projects that deal with "the
whole student" and with learning as a community activity. In the past,
this has included literacy projects that bring parents & kids together to
learn, projects that use a neighborhood as a classroom, projects that help
teachers share ideas about creative, relevant curricula, etc. We're especially
interested in supporting critical and investigative thinking, and projects that
address class disparities in education.
We also try to fund projects that
reach a lot of people -- or a whole commuunity -- and
that can make a big difference in people's lives. Unfortunately, although many
communities are affected by budget cuts that interrupt educational programs,
Sparkplug can't provide funding to keep those programs operating from day
to day. See the FAQ for more information.
Source: Allstate Foundation
Program:
Allstate
Foundation Grants Program
Purpose: 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. Programs should address:
- Catastrophe response
- Youth anti-violence
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Teen safe driving (new for 2005)
Tolerance, inclusion and diversity. Programs should address:
- Teaching tolerance to youth
- Ending hate crimes
- Alleviating discrimination
Deadline: Jan 28th, 2008
Source: Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision
Program: Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision
Awards
Purpose: Your students will invent our future.
They'll discover new, improved technologies and scientific advancements that
will create tomorrow's world. But how do we encourage them to make these
breakthroughs? We challenge them to open our eyes and minds.
You can get your students to start opening their minds by having them compete
in the ExploraVision Awards competition. Sponsored by Toshiba
and administered by the National Science Teachers Association, the ExploraVision competition gives students in grades K
– 12 the chance to create their own visions of the future.
Student teams select and research a current technology and then explore what it
could be like 20 years from now.
Members of the four first-place teams will each receive a $10,000 US Savings
Bond and an expenses-paid trip to
Deadline:
Nov 30th,
2008
Source: Produce for Kids
Program:
Play with Your
Produce Healthy Challenge
Purpose: Classrooms throughout the
Deadline: Nov 30th, 2008
Type: Corporate
Source: Vernier and the
National Science Teacher’s Association
Program: Software
& Technology/NSTA Technology Award Purpose: Every year, Vernier and the National Science Teacher’s
Association present the most resourceful science teachers in the country with
the Vernier Software & Technology/NSTA Technology
Award. The awards, valued at $3000 each, will be given to seven educators
judged to have created the best inquiry-based, hands-on learning activities
using data-collection technology interfaced with computers, graphing
calculators and other handheld devices.
Deadline:
Dec 5th,
2008
Source: National Association of
Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and Herff Jones,
Inc
Program:
2008-09 Principal's Leadership Award, (PLA)
Purpose:
The National
Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and Herff
Jones, Inc. are proud to co-sponsor the 2008-09 Principal's Leadership Award,
(PLA). This scholarship award affords high school principals the opportunity to
recognize a student leader by nominating him or her for a national scholarship.
Scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $12,000 will be awarded to 100 outstanding
seniors from all 50 states, the
Students cannot apply for this award
but must be nominated by their high school. High school principals or their
designee may nominate only one senior per school to compete.
Source: NEA Foundation
Program:
NEA
Foundation Student Achievement Grants
Purpose:
The NEA Foundation
provides grants to improve the academic achievement of students in
Proposals for work resulting in
low-income and minority student success with honors, advanced placement, or
other challenging curricula are particularly encouraged.
The Student Achievement Grants
replace the Foundation’s Innovation Grants, which have been
discontinued.
Source:
Program: Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers
Purpose: A partnership between Toyota Motor Sales,
Source: Airborne
Program:
Airborne
Teacher Trust Fund
Purpose:
As district budgets
become tighter, schools are faced with the difficult decision of having to cut
important programs, particularly art and music.
In
response, Airborne, Inc., has developed the Airborne Teacher Trust Fund program
to help school communities across the nation revive these ever-important
learning programs.
Source: Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation
Program: Toolbox
for Education Grant Program
Purpose: There is a preference for funding requests that have a permanent impact
such as facility enhancement (both indoor and outdoor) as well as
landscaping/clean up type projects. Projects that encourage parent involvement
and build stronger community spirit will be favored. Please note the grant
money cannot be used to pay for memorials, stipends, salaries, artists in
residence, field trips, scholarships, or third party funding. Only 10% of any
award granted can be used toward outside resources such as labor, installation,
consultation and delivery.
Alachua County Teachers seeking more
information should contact
Everett Caudle, Supervisor; or Kimberly Sims,
School Board of Alachua County,
(352) 955-7605
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