Grant+Information

= Help in the process: =
 * Below you will find some sites that will hopefully help you to find a grant that suits your needs**
 * Free Funding Research Resources** is home to [|courses]and download-able materials for creating grant proposals. There is a charge for some, but many are also free.

= Grant and Funding Databases: = = = = Specific Funding Opportunities: =
 * **American Library Association** **for a series of Grants and Awards.**
 * **Digital Wish Grants** website for a large variety of upcoming grant possibilities.
 * **DonorsChoose** allows teachers to post their requests, from colored pencils to laptops, to be funded by a contributor. Nearly two-thirds of all **projects** posted on DonorsChoose receive full funding, even those that cost up to a few thousand dollars. Contributors have a little more interaction with teachers; they receive photos of their money in action, a cost report of how each dollar of their donation is spent, and a thank you letter from the teacher or all the students, if the donation exceeds $100.
 * [|Grants Alert] I dentifies new funding opportunities for organizations, schools, districts, consortia and state education agencies.
 * [|National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)] - Multiple award opportunities available for educators and students.
 * ** Teachers Count **
 * [|Grants and awards] are available in many subject areas as well as grants for continuing education.
 * [|TeachersCount on Us Supply Program]
 * [|We Are Teachers] - has a web page devoted to grants, [|giveaways] and other funding sources for your classroom.
 * ** American Honda Foundation Grants focus on STEM, literacy, job training, and environmental fields**. Schools can apply once in a 12 month period for grants ranging from $20,000- $60,000.
 * **Donors Choose** is a site where you can present your need for a grant and then others vote to determine who deserves it the most. Give it a try--I think you can vote for yourself. :-)
 * **EPA Environmental Education Grants** offer a wide range of awards that support environmental-education projects in schools. Most grants are $15,000- $25,000.
 * [|Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grants] - funding of up to $500 and the opportunity to design and implement a creative program for your school or library.
 * [|ING Unsung Heroes] - If you’re a full-time K-12 teacher, principal, paraprofessional, or classified staff member in the U.S. with an effective project that improves student learning, you’re eligible to apply. All innovative programs, small to large scale, are eligible. Application deadline: **April 30. **.
 * [|Jan Stauber Grant] - offers up to $350 in support of projects that introduce young people to Sherlock Holmes. The deadline for the grant each year is May 1.
 * [|RGK Foundation] - is inviting proposals in the broad areas of education, community, and health and medicine. The foundation's primary interests include formal K-12 education (particularly math, science, and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education. The average Foundation grant is $25,000.:
 * [[image:http://www.nsta.org/shellsciencelab/shell_logo3.jpg link="http://www.nsta.org/shellsciencelab/"]]Are you succeeding in science lab instruction with minimal equipment? The Shell Science Lab Challenge gives you an opportunity to share your exemplary approach for a chance to win a school science lab makeover support package valued at $20,000! Deadline: January 23, 2017 Application scoring guide Video scoring guide [|View all the prizes]
 * **[|Siemens Westinghouse Competition] -** **math, science and technology education**
 * Target - [|Field Trip Grants]- **They** accept grant applications between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1.
 * ** Toshiba American Foundation **
 * K-5 grade teachers are invited to apply on-line for a $1,000 Toshiba America Foundation grant to help bring an innovative hands-on project into their own classroom. Grant applications are due on OCTOBER 1st each year.
 * Grade 6-12 grant requests (science and math education) of more than $5,000 are due August 1. All other grade 6-12 requests are evaluated on a rolling basis.
 * [|Youth Garden Grant]  - helps to establish new school and community gardens and assist in sustaining and renewing existing gardens. Grants are awarded on a yearly basis. Our Request for Applications is usually issued each fall with awards made early the following year, in time for building and planting in the spring.