Grant Opportunities

A Brief Listing of Grants for Educators

• E-Instruction technology grant (click on CPS template): http://www.einstruction.com/research-and-funding/grants-funding
• Federal grant: 21st Century Community Learning Centers: http://www.einstruction.com/research-and-funding/grants-funding
• Federal grant: The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006-Perkins IV (focused on career & technical education):  http://www2.ed.gov/policy/sectech/leg/perkins/index.html
• Federal Grants: The National Science Foundation (NSF) A-Z Index of Funding Opportunities: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/azindex.jsp
• Federal grants: The Office of Special Education Programs: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep/programs.html
• Federal grant: Learn and Serve (community service grants): http://www.learnandserve.gov/for_organizations/funding/index.asp
• Federal grants: McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program (formula grants): http://www2.ed.gov/programs/homeless/index.html
• Federal grants: Rural and Low-Income School Grant Program: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/reaprlisp/index.html
• Federal grants: Title I grants (for schools serving high percentages of low income students): http://www2.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/index.html
• Private grant: AAUW (American Association of University Women ): http://www.aauw.org/learn/fellows_directory/
• Private grant: AP Fellows Grant for secondary school teachers: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/k-12/awards/ap-grants
• Private grant: ASM Materials Education Foundation-“Living in a Material World” science grant: http://asmcommunity.asminternational.org/portal/site/www/foundation/educators/k-12-grants/
• Private: Charles Lafitte Foundation—accepts grants related to activities correlating with the Foundation’s program areas and interests (see Foundation principles here--http://www.charleslafitte.org/principles.html) : http://www.charleslafitte.org/applications.html
• Private: The Crail-Johnson Foundation: awards grants to programs in the following areas-see link: http://www.crail-johnson.org/current.htm
• Private: The International Technology and Engineering Educators Association:  http://www.iteaconnect.org/Awards/awards.htm
• Private: The Lemelson-MIT “InvenTeams” High School Invention Grants: http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/
• Private: Metlife Foundation Education Grants: http://www.metlife.com/about/corporate-profile/citizenship/metlife-foundation/index.html?WT.ac=MetLife%20Foundation_5-10757_T4290-AB-about&oc_id=MetLife%20Foundation_5-10757_T4290-AB-about
• Private: Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation—awards grants towards the full inclusion of youth with disabilities into society: http://www.meaf.org/grants.php
• Private: Nat’l Weather Association-Sol Hirsch Education Fund Grants (Meteorology-based grants): http://www.nwas.org/grants/solhirsch.php?
• Private: NEA Student Achievement Grants: http://www.neafoundation.org/pages/educators/grant-programs/grant-application/student-achievement-grants/
• Private: Northrop Grumman Foundation (science, technology, engineering, and math-STEM-related grants): http://www.northropgrumman.com/corporate-responsibility/corporate-citizenship/foundation.html
• Private: Qualcomm Global Citizenship Grants: http://www.qualcomm.com/citizenship/community_involvement/corporate_giving_funding_guidelines.html
• Private: Qwest Foundation technology grants: http://www.qwest.com/about/company/community/teachers_and_technology.html
• Private: RKG Foundation grants (focused on community, education, and health): http://www.rgkfoundation.org/public/grants
• Private: Toshiba America Foundation:
                 Grants for K-5: http://www.toshiba.com/taf/k5.jsp
                 Grants for 6-12 Math and Science Education: http://www.toshiba.com/taf/612.jsp
• Private: Toyota Tapestry Grants for Science: http://www.nsta.org/pd/tapestry/
• Private: Verizon Foundation (including education and literacy grants): http://foundation.verizon.com/grant/guidelines.shtml
• Private: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (educational grants): http://www.hewlett.org/Grantseekers/
• Private: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (educational grants) http://wrm.wkkf.org/uWebRequestManager/UI/Application.aspx?tid=9bede80d-89db-402a-a3ad-53b21302e6ee&LanguageID=0

Boundless Readers (formerly the Rochelle Lee Fund) Literacy Grants

• http://boundlessreaders.org/AppsMaterials.html

Donors Choose

• http://www.donorschoose.org/teachers

Target

• http://sites.target.com/site/en/company/page.jsp?contentId=WCMP04-031880