Funding Sources

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Related Funding Sources Links:

• No Child Left Behind
• "Show Me The Money" - Presentation on Grant Writing
• "Show Me The Money" - Presentation Handout

Active Grant Notices:
(updated 08/13/2010)

• Kids in Need Foundation (Open Deadline) The School, Home, & Office Products Association's Kids In Need Foundation offers Kids In Need Teacher Grants to provide K-12 educators in United States with funding to implement innovative learning opportunities for their students. The Kids In Need Teacher Grants are funded by retail and education credit union sponsors. All certified K-12 teachers in the U.S. are eligible. Applications are judged on the basis of innovativeness and merit, clarity of objectives, replication feasibility, suitability of evaluation methods, and cost effectiveness. Grant awards range from $100 to $500 and must be used to finance creative classroom projects. Typically, two hundred and three hundred grants are awarded each year. Retail sponsors and designated education credit unions make the grant applications available at their outlets during the back-to-school season. Applications from the sponsors are also available on the Kids In Need Foundation Web site.
• Applications Invited for National Center for Family Literacy Library Grants (Due November 12th, 2010) Better World Books and National Center for Family Literacy are teaming up again this year to provide Libraries and Families Award grants for libraries with exceptional family programming. Through this opportunity, NCFL and Better World Books will reward and enhance existing family programming and expand literacy-building practices of families in library settings. Grants will help connect more families to their local libraries and expand their literacy efforts in new and innovative ways. NCFL anticipates awarding three $10,000 grant awards, one in each of the following three categories: local friends of the library programs, public/academic libraries, and urban libraries. In addition, award recipients will receive scholarships to attend the National Conference on Family Literacy in 2011. Nominees must be existing family library programs. Applications must be submitted by the program director or coordinator — someone who is familiar with the nominated program and the effects of the program on families and the community. Visit the NCFL Web (click title link) site for guidelines.
• Walmart and Sam's Club Donate More than $4 Million to U.S. Teachers through New Teacher Rewards Program (Special Announcement) On average, teachers spend more than $500 a year out of their own pockets for classroom supplies, according to the American Federation of Teachers. To help offset rising expenses for classroom supplies, Walmart, Sam’s Club and the Walmart Foundation have joined together to launch Teacher Rewards, a new program that is providing more than $4 million to 40,000 deserving teachers across the U.S. Teachers nurture, challenge and inspire our children to become future leaders, and through the Teacher Rewards program, we recognize those efforts - especially during tough economic times. Focusing on schools whose needs are greatest, each participating location selects one local kindergarten through eighth grade school to take part. Ten randomly selected teachers per school will each receive a $100 Teacher Reward card to purchase classroom supplies from a Walmart store, Sam’s Club or online at walmart.com or samsclub.com. In addition to the 40,000 teachers Walmart and Sam’s Club are recognizing, our 170 transportation offices and distribution centers nationwide are awarding local schools with $85,000 from the Walmart Foundation to help make a difference in students’ lives. The Walmart Foundation also recently awarded 20 teachers with classroom school supplies through its Write to Change the Classroom program.The new Teachers Reward program and the recent Write to Change the Classroom program are extensions of our ongoing support of education and local community involvement. In 2008, Walmart and our Foundation gave more than $66 million to fund educational programs in communities across the country. Through scholarship programs alone, the Walmart Foundation awarded more than $8 million in 2008. Visit www.walmartfoundation.org for more information.
• DonarsChoose.org (No deadline) An online charity connecting you to classrooms in need.
• The Coca-Cola Foundation Grants (No deadline) Education We are supportive of programs that offer scholarships, school drop-out prevention projects, access to educational programming, and other educational initiatives deemed critical by our local business units. The Coca-Cola Company, its global philanthropic arm, The Coca-Cola Foundation, and its regional foundations strive daily to be responsive to the citizenship priorities in the global communities where we live and work. Learn more about our regional foundations. At The Coca-Cola Company, we recognize that we cannot have a healthy and growing business unless the communities we serve are healthy and sustainable. As a global beverage company, we have committed ourselves to improving the quality of life in the communities where we do business. Our community investment priorities reflect the global and local nature of our business and focuses on those global pillars where The Coca-Cola Company can make a unique and sustainable difference: water stewardship, active healthy living, community recycling, and education. Community Support Application Guidelines All requests for community support in the form of grants or sponsorships for consideration by The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Foundation or any of its affiliated regional foundations must be submitted through our online application system. Those proposals meeting specific guidelines, and further our strategic goals and objectives, will be considered for funding. Applications that are faxed or mailed after August 31, 2009, will be returned to the organization with an invitation to apply through the online application.
• CVS Caremark Community Grants (Due October 30, 2010) To ensure that we make a positive impact, the 2010 Community Grants Program will focus on a few key areas. One area is on public schools for children with disabilities that promote a greater level of inclusion in student activities and extracurricular programs. We are devoted to supporting organizations that enrich the lives of children with disabilities through inclusive programs. Through our Community Grants Program we work to ensure that students are not left behind in school. Proposed programs must be fully inclusive where children with disabilities are full participants in an early childhood, adolescent or teenage program alongside their typically developing peers.
• CHS Foundation Mini-grants (No Deadline) The CHS Foundation grants up to $1,000 to innovative academic and leadership programs that strengthen student learning and enhance professional development. Examples include: leadership training opportunities, mentorship programs, professional development experiences and student fundraising efforts.

TOOLS:

LEARNING TO WRITE SUCCESSFUL MINI-GRANT PROPOSALS

Principal's Tool Kit #1 - Creating a Grant Writing Team

This tool kit provides you with some basic strategies and guidelines to acheiveyour grant writing goals. The main focus is the creation of a grant writing team comprised of staff, parents and/or community people. The grant application process is not a task that should be attempted by one person. The recruitment from a pool of local talent allows you to tailor your team to the needs of the project. By making this task a team effort you will foster feelings of ownership rather than merely a sense of belonging among your staff.

Download:

Principal's Tool Kit #1

NEW Funding Links!

The Foundation Center

Grants & Related Resources - Publisher Directories

Grantwriters.com

Council on Foundations

Education-related Federal Register Announcements

Federal Register

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

More Funding Sources Links:

http://www.cpb.org/grants/grantwriting.html (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)

Description: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting evaluates hundreds of proposals each year for a variety of funding purposes. This publication is an easy guide to the basic elements of grant proposal writing and is offered to assist applicants to CPB and to other funding sources. It offers guideposts to help you through each stage of the process.

http://www.npguides.org/index.html (not profit guides)

Description: Non-profit guides are free web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups. Our guides are designed to assist established non-profits through the grant-writing process.

http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html (Foundation Center Proposal Writing Short Course)

Description: The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy. This link brings you to a short course in grant writing broken down into specific steps.

http://www.fundsnetservices.com (Fundsnet Services)

Description: Fundsnet Services provides an array of links to resources that range from Grant Writing for Dummies to grant information.

http://www.schoolgrants.org (K-12 Resources)

Description: SchoolGrants offers a vast array of information to elementary and secondary school grant seekers at no cost. SchoolGrants was created when it became apparent that there were no sites like it for people from small, financially-strapped school districts.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr (Federal Register)

Description: Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for government sponsored grants and funding opportunities.
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml (US Dept of Education)

Ed.Gov is sponsored by the US Department of Education and provides, in addition to information about grant applications, information about research, educational policy and legislation.

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/methods/reading/readingfirst.html (US Department of Education)

A specific section of Ed. Gov that provides specific information about Reading First.