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Grant and Funding Information

LEGO: LEGO Smart Creativity Contest
LEGO Education is inviting K-12 teachers and home educators from across the United States to register as contestants for the 2010 LEGO Smart Creativity Contest, challenging classrooms coast to coast to become LEGO Smart.
Maximum award: a LEGO Education gift certificate, LEGO Smart gift valued at $500, and recognition.
Eligibility: legal residents of the United States employed or working within the education field (K-12) at time of entry.
Deadline: pre-registration by July 30, 2010.


AASA: National Superintendent of the Year
The American Association of School Administrators National Superintendent of the Year Program pays tribute to the talent and vision of the men and women who lead the nation's public schools.
Maximum award: recognition; a $10,000 scholarship to a student in the high school from which the National Superintendent of the Year graduated.
Eligibility: Any superintendent, chancellor, or top leader of a school system in the United States, Canada, or international school who plans to continue in the profession.
Deadline: July 30, 2010.

ASCD: Outstanding Young Educator Award
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development is seeking nominations for its Outstanding Young Educator Award, which recognizes a teacher under the age of 40 who demonstrates excellence in his or her profession, a positive impact on students, creativity in the classroom, and leadership in his or her school or district.
Maximum award: $10,000; an all-expenses paid trip to the ASCD annual conference in March for the winner and one companion, including registration, travel, hotel, and meals.
Eligibility: pre K-12 teachers under age 40; no self-nominations accepted.
Deadline: August 1, 2010.

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation: Melody Program
Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation Melody Program provides musical instruments and instrument repairs to existing K-12 school music programs that have no other source of financing to purchase additional musical instruments and materials.
Maximum award: $8,000.
Eligibility: music programs that take place during the regular school day. Schools must have an established instrumental music program (i.e. concert band, marching band, jazz band and/or orchestra) that is at least three years old.
Deadline: August 1, 2010.

Toshiba America: Grants for Math and Science
The Toshiba America Foundation funds projects in math and science designed by classroom teachers to improve instruction for students in grades K-12.
Maximum award: $5,000.
Eligibility: Grades K-12.
Deadline: grades 7-12 - August 2, 2010.

Broad Center for the Management of School Systems: Superintendents Academy
The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems Superintendents Academy seeks leaders from business, the military, government, education, and nonprofit organizations to make an immediate impact as CEOs and senior executives in urban school districts.
Maximum award: participation in the Broad Superintendents Academy.
Eligibility: those with significant leadership and management experience at the central office level or the equivalent in another field.
Deadline: August 13, 2010.


Open Meadows Foundation: Grants for Women and Girls
The Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls. It funds projects that reflect the diversity of the community served by the project in both its leadership and organization; that build community power; that promote racial, social, economic, and environmental justice; and that have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding.
Maximum award: $2,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations with an organizational budget no larger than $150,000. Projects must be designed and implemented by women and girls.
Deadline: August 14, 2010.

NAIS: Challenge 20/20 Program
National Association of Independent Schools Challenge 20/20 Program gives schools the opportunity to develop globally based, experiential curricula and to build educational partnerships with schools around the world. Challenge 20/20 students form authentic bonds with students from across the globe and learn firsthand about cross-cultural communication; together, teams tackle real problems.
Maximum award: participation in the Challenge 20/20 program.
Eligibility: elementary and secondary schools, public or private, located anywhere in the world.
Deadline: August 16, 2010.

Barbara Bush Foundation: Grants for Literacy
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's grant-making program seeks to develop or expand projects designed to support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children.
Maximum award: $65,000.
Eligibility: organizations with current nonprofit or public status in existence for two or more years as of the date of the application that have maintained fiscal accountability and operated an instructional literacy program in existence for at least two years that includes one or more of the following components: literacy for adults; parent education; pre-literacy or literacy instruction for children pre-K to grade 3; intergenerational literacy activities (Parent and Child Together Time [PACT]).
Deadline: September 10, 2010.

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation: Minigrants
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation offers Minigrants to public and school libraries for programs that encourage literacy and creativity in children. Programs relating to the work of Ezra Jack Keats are welcome, but not required.
Maximum award: $500.
Eligibility: public and school libraries.
Deadline: September 15, 2010.

Mr. Holland's Opus Music Foundation
Mr. Holland's Opus Music Foundation Grants have two programs, the Melody Program that targets qualified school music programs in need of assistance, and the Special Projects Program that targets community schools of the arts, after school programs and youth orchestras in need of assistance.
Maximum award: Programs fund instrument repair and the acquisition of new instruments up to $10,000; no cash grants.
Eligibility: school music programs K-12; community schools of the arts, after-school programs, and youth orchestras.
Deadline: pre-application -- October 1, 2010.

Siemens/College Board: 2010 Siemens Competition
The Siemens Competition seeks to promote excellence by encouraging students to undertake individual or team research projects. It fosters intensive research that improves students' understanding of the value of scientific study and inf
orms their consideration of fu
ture careers in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology.
Maximum award: $100,000.
Eligibility: high school students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Deadline: October 1, 2010.

National Gardening Association/Subaru: Healthy Sprouts Award
The Subaru Healthy Sprouts Award recognizes and supports youth gardening programs focused on teaching about the environment, nutrition, and hunger issues in the United States. Through winning programs, youth will learn skills necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle compatible with environmental stewardship and gain an understanding of how their actions can positively impact the wellbeing of their community.
Maximum award: a $500 gift certificate to the Gardening with Kids catalog and online store, for basic youth gardening supplies and supporting educational materials; NGA's Eat a Rainbow Kit; a literature package from NGA.
Eligibility: schools or organizations planning to garden in 2011 with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18. The selection of winners is based on a demonstrated relationship between the garden program and education about environmental, nutrition, and hunger issues in the United States.
Deadline: October 1, 2010.

ASCAP Foundation: Grants for Music Education
The ASCAP Foundation is now considering proposals from organizations engaging in music education and talent development programs that support music education for aspiring songwriters and composers.
Maximum award: $3,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations.
Deadline: October 1, 2010.

Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation: Toolbox for Education Grant
Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant program funds school improvement projects initiated by parents in recognition of the importance of parent involvement in education.
Maximum award: $5,000.
Eligibility: K-12 schools (including charter, parochial, private, etc.) or parent groups (associated with a non-profit K-12 school).
Deadline: October 15, 2010.

Wild Ones: Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program
The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program gives small monetary grants to schools, nature centers, or other non-profit educational organizations for the purpose of establishing outdoor learning centers. Funds will be provided only for the purchase of native plants and seed.
Eligibility: schools, nature centers, and other nonprofit and not-for-profit places of learning, including houses of worship.
Deadline: October 15, 2010.

State Farm: Company Grants
State Farm is committed to meeting the needs of communities by giving in three areas: Safe Neighbors (safety), Strong Neighborhoods (community development), and Education Excellence (education).
Maximum award: varies.
Eligibility: nonprofit, 501(c)3 organizations; Canadian charitable organizations, educational institutions, and governmental entities.
Deadline: October 31, 2010.

Verizon Foundation Grants
The Verizon Foundation makes grants that help people to increase their literacy and educational achievement; avoid being an abuser or a victim of domestic violence; or achieve and sustain their health and safety.
Maximum award: $10,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations.
Deadline: October 31, 2010.

Nestlé USA: Very Best in Youth Program
The Nestlé USA Very Best in Youth Program honors young people ages 13 to 18 who have excelled in school and who are making their community and the world a better place.
Maximum award: $1,000.
Eligibility: youth ages 13 and 18 years of age who demonstrate good citizenship, a strong academic record, and can show how they have made a special contribution to their school, church, or the community. Entrants must have permission from a parent or legal guardian to submit nomination.
Deadline: November 1, 2010.

Patriot's Pen
Patriot's Pen, a youth-essay writing contest is a nationwide competition that gives students in grades 6,7 and 8 the opportunity to write essays expressing their views on democracy. Annually, more than 115,000 students participate in the contest.  The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed this program on the NASSP National Advisory List of Contests and Activities for 2009-2010. The Patriot's Pen program is designed to foster patriotism by allowing students the opportunity to express their opinions based on an annual theme.
Maximum Award: Savings bonds worth $1,000-$10,000. 
Eligibility: Middle school students (6-8)
Deadline: November 1, 2010

Voice of Democracy
Created in 1947, the Voice of Democracy (VOD) scholarship program is an audio-essay contest for high school students that annually provides more than $3 million in scholarships. The first-place winner, who competes with all the first-place VFW Department winners, receives a $30,000 scholarship that is paid directly to the recipient’s American university, college or vocational/technical school. The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed this program on the NASSP National Advisory List of Contests and Activities for 2009-2010. The Voice of Democracy program is designed to foster patriotism by allowing students the opportunity to voice their opinion in a three to five minute essay based on an annual theme.
Maximum Award: $30,000. Besides competing for the top scholarship prize, as well as other national scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $16,000, each Department's first-place winner receives an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., March 5-9, 2011, sponsored by Target.
Eligibility: High School Students (9-12)
Deadline: November 1, 2010

Air Force Association: Educator Grant Program
The Air Force Association Educator Grant Program is designed to promote aerospace education activities and encourage use of innovative aerospace activities within the prescribed curriculum. Each school year, the association awards grants to worthy projects that significantly influence student learning. The program also encourages establishing an active relationship between the school and the local Air Force Association organization. Maximum award: $250.
Eligibility: K-12 classrooms.
Deadline: November 10, 2010.

Vernier/NSTA: Technology Awards
The Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards promote the innovative use of data-collection technology using a computer, graphing calculator, or other handheld device in the science classroom. Maximum award: $1,000 in cash for the teacher, $1,000 in Vernier Products, and up to $1,000 toward expenses to attend the annual NSTA National Convention.
Eligibility: Current teachers of science in grades K-College.
Deadline: November 30, 2010.

NSTA: DCAT Association "Making a Difference" Award
The Drug, Chemical & Associated Technologies Association "Making a Difference" Award recognizes excellence in a science program developed and implemented by middle-level science teachers, grades 6–8. Entries must show innovative and effective teaching strategies combined with a science program that has influenced students to explore and investigate science and its application to global problems.
Maximum award: $2,500 to be used to enhance or expand the winning science program; the winning school's lead science teacher and principal will be awarded coach airfare and two nights' hotel accommodation to attend NSTA's National Conference March 10–13, 2011 in San Francisco.
Eligibility: innovative middle-level science programs.
Deadline: November 30, 2010.

NSTA: Wendell G. Mohling Outstanding Aerospace Educator Award
The Wendell G. Mohling Outstanding Aerospace Educator Award recognizes excellence in the field of aerospace education. The recipient will be honored during the Awards Banquet and the Aerospace Educators Luncheon at the annual NSTA Conference.
Maximum award: $3,000; plus $2,000 in expenses to attend NSTA's National Conference March 10–13, 2011 in San Francisco.
Eligibility: K–12 teachers of science in formal education settings (elementary, middle, high school). Individuals must be nominated and have a minimum of three years teaching experience. Self-nominations will be accepted.
Deadline: November 30, 2010.

Freedoms Foundation: Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education
The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education honor outstanding educators who excite a commitment in their students to the free enterprise system and unleash the entrepreneurial skills of their students at the elementary, junior high school, high school, and college level.
Maximum award: $15,000.
Eligibility: teachers at schools (K-12), colleges, and universities.
Deadline: November 30, 2010.

Character Education Partnership: National Schools of Character Awards
The National Schools of Character Awards program has a twofold purpose: to identify exemplary schools and districts to serve as models for others; and to help schools and districts improve their efforts in effective character education.
Maximum award: varies.
Eligibility: schools that have been engaged in character education for a minimum of three full years, starting no later than December 2007. Districts need to have been engaged in character education for a minimum of four full years, starting no later than December 2006.
Deadline: December 1, 2010.

Campbell's: Labels for Education
The Campbell's, Inc. Labels for Education Program gives schools free educational equipment in exchange for labels from Campbell products.
Maximum award: varies.
Eligibility: Schools or parents coordinate label drives to raise resources for schools.
Deadline: N/A.

Actuarial Foundation: Advancing Student Achievement Grants
The Actuarial Foundation Advancing Student Achievement grant program brings together actuaries and educators in local classrooms with the belief that interaction with real-world mentors will boost student interest and achievement in math. The Actuarial Foundation can provide a local network of actuaries ready to participate, as well as suggestions on how to integrate math concepts from the workplace into the classroom. Schools applying for grants will be given wide latitude in designing programs that enhance learning and create a "love of math" in each student.
Maximum award: varies.
Eligibility: All schools willing to undertake a math-mentoring program involving local actuaries as volunteers are eligible. However, in order for a program to be viable, there must be a sufficient population of volunteer actuaries within easy traveling distance to make a regular program possible.
Deadline: None, but applications should be received at least one or two months prior to proposed start date.

"Access for Educators to C-SPAN Archival Footage"
The C-SPAN Archives Grants awardees are granted the videotapes of their choice from the extensive collection in the C-SPAN Archives for creative proposals for using the network's programming in the classroom or in research projects.
Eligibility: middle and high school teachers, college/university professors.
Maximum Award: N/A.
Deadline: N/A.

"Awards for Excellence in Educating Students About Math, Science, Technology & Engineering"
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation Classroom Grants are awarded to encourage excellence in educating students about math, science, technology, and engineering. Eligibility: current AIAA Educator Associate or AIAA Professional members actively engaged as K-12 classroom educators.
Maximum Award: $200.
Deadline: N/A

Earthwatch: Educator Fellowship
The Earthwatch Institute offers educators fully funded fellowships for hands-on learning with leading scientists doing field research and conservation on one of 130 projects
around the world.
Maximum award: fully funded fellowship.
Eligibility: Elementary, middle, and high school educators and administrators of any discipline.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

“Barnes and Noble Grants”
Barnes and Noble booksellers is considering requests for grants from nonprofit organizations that focus on art, literacy, or education (K-12). Applicants must have a plan for promoting the grants program with Barnes and Noble and must be willing to work with the local stores on in-store programming.
Maximum Award: varies.
Eligibility: nonprofits that focus on art, literacy, or education (K-12).
Deadline: rolling.

"Barnes & Noble Corporate Contributions"
Barnes & Noble Corporate Contributions Program is committed to literary-based sponsorships and partners with organizations that focus their core businesses on higher learning, literacy and the arts.
Maximum Award: varies.
Eligibility: non-profit organizations that focus on literacy, the arts or education (K - 12).
Deadline: N/A.

"Beyond Words: The Dollar General School Library Relief Program"
Dollar General has created a grant program to benefit public school libraries in communities affected by disasters. The fund will provide grants for books, media, and/or equipment that support learning in a school library environment.
Maximum Award: $15,000.
Eligibility: Public school libraries that have incurred substantial damage or hardship due to a natural disaster (tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood, avalanche, mudslide), fire or an act recognized by the federal government as terrorism. First priority for the initial grants will be given to school libraries impacted by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma -- either through direct loss or through an increase in enrollment due to displaced students.
Deadline: open.

Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest: Insight/Foresight Grants
Brown Rudnick will fund specific, one-time future education-related needs or ideas that promise to improve inner-city education within one year of the grant award in one of the cities eligible for foundation grants.
Maximum award: $2,000.
Eligibility: small, concrete projects that will improve inner-city education in Boston, Hartford, Providence, New York, or Washington, D.C. within the coming year.
Deadline: N/A.

Charles Lafitte Foundation: Grants for Education & Child Advocacy
The Charles Lafitte Foundation Grants Program helps groups and individuals foster lasting improvement on the human condition by providing support to education, children's advocacy, medical research, and the arts.
Maximum award: varies.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations.
Deadline: rolling.

"Comcast Foundation Grants Support Youth Leadership Development"
The Comcast Foundation is awarding grants to maximize the impact of community investments so they yield tangible, measurable benefits to the neighborhoods Comcast serves and the people who live there. The foundation's primary focus is in funding diversity-oriented programs that address literacy, volunteerism and youth leadership development.
Maximum Award: $570,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations operating within communities that Comcast serves.
Deadline: N/A.

"Classroom Grants for Excellence in Math, Science, Technology and Engineering"
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation Classroom Grants are awarded to encourage excellence in educating students about math, science, technology, and engineering.
Maximum Award: $200.
Eligibility: current AIAA Educator Associate or AIAA Professional members actively engaged as K-12 classroom educators.
Deadline: N/A.

C-SPAN: Video Archive Grants
C-SPAN Archives Grants give teachers videotapes from the extensive collection in the C-SPAN Archives for creative proposals that use the network's programming in the classroom or in research projects.
Eligibility: middle and high school teachers and college/university professors.
Maximum award: use of archive tapes.
Deadline: N/A.

"Do Something Plum Youth Grants"
Do Something Plum Youth Grants are available to young people who submit creative proposals to further the growth and success of their existing community action project.
Maximum Award: $500.
Eligibility: Applicant must be 25 or younger at the time of application.
Deadline: weekly.

ePals, Inc.: free In2Books curriculum
In2Books, the curriculum-based e-mentoring program from ePals, Inc., will be offered for free to some Title I schools. Students participating in In2Books select and read age-appropriate, high-quality books from a list compiled by a team of children's literature experts. The students are matched with carefully screened adult pen pals who read the same books as the students. After reading each book, students and their pen pals exchange thoughts about the important issues in the book via online letters. Teachers reinforce these activities in the classroom with related lessons and discussion.
Maximum award: the online program, books and professional development (valued at more than $500).
Eligibility: all 3rd-5th grade classrooms in Title I schools from any one district.

Fund for Teachers: Grants for Travel and Growth
The Fund for Teachers makes direct grants to teachers for summer learning opportunities of their own design.
Maximum award: $5,000.
Eligibility: teachers K-12 with a minimum of three years teaching experience; teachers must be full-time and spend at least 50 percent of the time in the classroom when grants are approved and made.
Deadline: varies by state.

"Funding for Teachers to Bring Monarch Butterflies Into the Classroom"
The Live Monarch Foundation Educator Outreach Program provides funding for teachers throughout the United States to enroll in the National Campaign to bring Monarch Butterflies into the classroom. This program provides education and materials to strengthen the Monarch’s 3,000 mile migratory route within North America by creating self-sustaining butterfly gardens and refuges. Current extreme weather has eliminated early milkweed growth... participation is critical. Materials will be provided for each participant to raise a virtual butterfly and start a real butterfly garden with professional instruction on each level of its maintenance and care, with insight into the shared responsibility of each person to protect our fragile environment one backyard at a time.
Maximum Award: n/a.
Eligibility: teachers and classrooms in areas on the monarch migratory route.
Deadline: rolling.

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“Grants to Support Education, Child Advocacy, Medical Research & the Arts”
The Charles Lafitte Foundation Grants Program awards funds to help groups and individuals foster lasting improvement on the human condition by providing support to education, children's advocacy, medical research and the arts.
Maximum Award: varies.
Eligibility: 501c-3 institutions.
Deadline: n/a.

"Grants for Arts, Education, and Health Projects"
The Milagro Foundation seeks grants applications from community-based, grass-roots organizations that work with underprivileged children and youth in the areas of arts, education, and health.
Maximum Award: $5000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations in the United States.
Deadline: N/A.

“Grants for Early Literary Professionals”
RA & RR Reading Conference Grants are available to help fund expenses for selected early literacy professionals attending International Reading Association or Reading Recovery conferences.
Maximum Award: $200.
Eligibility: early literacy professionals (grades K-3).
Deadline: N/A.

“Grants for Foreign Language Training and International Studies”
The U.S. Department of Education's International Education Programs Service (IEPS) offers funding to promote expertise and competence in foreign languages and area and international studies. The Group Projects Abroad Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies by U.S. teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor.
Maximum Award: varies.
Eligibility: must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the United States and a faculty member in modern foreign languages or area studies; a teacher in an elementary or secondary school; or an experienced educator responsible for planning, conducting, or supervising programs in modern foreign languages or area studies at the elementary, secondary, or postsecondary levels.
Deadline: see website.

"Grants for Formal K-12 Education"
RGK Foundation awards grants within education to programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education.
Maximum Award: $25,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations.
Deadline: N/ A.

"Grants for Math Mentoring Programs Using Actuaries"
The Actuarial Foundation Advancing Student Achievement Mentoring Program awards grants to schools and groups to develop a viable mentoring program involving actuaries in the teaching of mathematics to children in private and public schools. Collaboration among school systems, local actuarial clubs, corporations and other stakeholders in education is encouraged in order to enhance the chances of success, particularly on a long-term basis.
Maximum Award: $30,000.
Eligibility: All schools and groups willing to undertake a math mentoring program that involves local actuaries as volunteers.
Deadline: N/A.

"Grants for Nonprofit Music Programs"
The Guitar Center Music Foundation's mission is to aid nonprofit music programs across America that offer music instruction so that more people can experience the joys of making music.
Maximum Award: $5000.
Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations. Qualifying applicants are established, ongoing and sustainable music programs across the United States that provide music instruction for people of any age who would not otherwise have the opportunity to make music.
Deadline: N/A.

"Grants to Increase Awareness & Understanding of Japan"
The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership is providing funding opportunities for small-scale education initiatives that will increase awareness and understanding of Japan through support of teacher training and related programs addressing the needs of the student and teacher community. Grants will be awarded for projects conducted from May 1-December 31, 2007.
Maximum Award: $5,000.
Eligibility: K-12 classrooms in Southern and Midwestern states.
Deadline: rolling.

"Grants for Inner-City Educators"
The Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corporation's Limited GEO Grants to Help Inner City Educators will fund specific, one-time future education-related needs or ideas which promise to improve inner city education within one year of the grant award in one of eligible cities.
Maximum Award: $2,000.
Eligibility: small, concrete projects which will improve inner city education in Boston, Hartford, Providence, New York or Washington within the coming year.
Deadline: N/A.

"High Tech Camp for Girls"
Microsoft DigiGirlz High Tech Camp for girls works to dispel stereotypes of the high-tech industry and gives young people a chance to experience firsthand what it is like to develop cutting-edge technology. During the camp, girls are exposed to executive speakers, technology tours and demonstrations, networking and hands-on learning workshops.
Maximum Award: camp attendance.
Eligibility: girls grades 7-12; must be 13 at the time of attendance.
Deadline: varies; see website.

"Involving Actuaries in Teaching Mathematics"
The Actuarial Foundation Advancing Student Achievement Mentoring Program awards grants to schools and groups so that they develop a viable mentoring program involving actuaries in the teaching of mathematics to children in private and public schools. Collaboration among school systems, local actuarial clubs, corporations and other stakeholders in education is encouraged in order to enhance the chances of success, particularly on a long-term basis.
Maximum Award: $30,000.
Eligibility: any local group or organization.
Deadline: N/A.

"Labels for Education"
Campbell's Labels for Education Program gives schools free educational equipment in exchange for labels from Campbell products.
Maximum Award: N/A.
Eligibility: Schools or parents coordinate label drives to raise resources for schools.
Deadline: N/A.

Live Monarch Foundation: Free Seeds
The Live Monarch Foundation is offering free milkweed seeds to classes, groups, and individuals in the migration path of the Monarch butterfly to help rehabilitate the natural habitat of the Monarch in North America. In recent years, over 75 percent of the wintering Monarchs butterflies from North America have frozen to death in Mexico as a result rain and sub-freezing conditions, and a nationwide shortage of milkweed, which Monarchs need to procreate, has further decimated their population. Please plant milkweed seeds to ensure Monarch survival. A milkweed in every yard!
Maximum award: 15+ butterfly garden seeds, including milkweed seeds.
Eligibility: anyone in the Monarch migration path who will plant seeds.
Deadline: N/A

“Mr. Holland’s Opus Music Foundation Grants”
Mr. Holland’s Opus Music Foundation Grants have two programs, The Melody Program that targets qualified school music programs in need of assistance, and The Special Projects Program that targets community schools of the arts, after school programs and youth orchestras in need of assistance.
Maximum Award: Programs fund instrument repair and the acquisition of new instruments; no cash grants.
Eligibility: school music programs K-12; community schools of the arts, after-school programs, and youth orchestras.
Deadline: none.

National Audubon Society: Pennies for the Planet
Pennies for the Planet helps young people get involved with conservation by taking part in local conservation action projects, and by collecting, saving, and sending in pennies for national and worldwide conservation projects. In this year's Pennies for the Planet campaign, students and their families can learn about three conservation projects around the U.S. that need help. Each Pennies project represents a conservation effort that will leave a legacy for future generations.
Maximum award: National Audubon Society staff will visit prize-winning school to create a program about wildlife and wild places.
Eligibility: kids working in classrooms, clubs, Scout troops, other groups, and on their own.
Deadline: N/A.

“NetAid Global Citizen Corps”
The NetAid Global Citizen Corps is a national network of high school students working to educate and mobilize their peers in efforts to end global poverty and address global challenges like HIV/AIDS, hunger, and access to education. Places are still available for this year’s online program.
Maximum Award: n/a.
Eligibility: students attending high school in the 2006-2007 school year.
Deadline: rolling.

"Outdoor Classroom Grant Program for the Natural Sciences"
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation, International Paper and National Geographic Explorer! Magazine have teamed up to create an outdoor classroom grant program whose focus is to engage students in hands-on natural science experiences and allow enrichment opportunities across the core curriculum.
Maximum Award: $2,000.
Eligibility: K-12 public schools in the United States.
Deadline: N/A.

"RGK Foundation Grants for Education"
RGK Foundation awards grants to programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science, and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education.
Maximum Award: $25,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)3 organizations.
Deadline for Letter of Inquiry: N/A.

"Scholastic Lexus Environmental Challenge"
The Scholastic Lexus Environmental Challenge program is designed to educate and empower students to take action to improve the environment. The program encourages middle and high school students to develop and implement environmental programs that positively impact their communities. Middle and high school teams comprised of 5 to 10 students and one teacher advisor are invited to participate in four initial challenges, each addressing a different environmental element -- land, water, air, and climate.
Maximum Award: $75,000.
Eligibility: students in grades 6-12 and their teachers.
Deadline: varies.

"Teachers of Critical Language Program Grants"
The American Councils for International Education Teachers of Critical Languages Program brings qualified EFL teachers with at least five years experience from China and Jordan to America where they teach Chinese and Arabic for an academic year in schools that offer the languages as a course of study. They are currently looking for schools to host them.
Deadline: TBA

"TeachUNICEF Seeks Teachers for Pilot Program"
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is looking for teachers to pilot its new
"TeachUNICEF" curriculum materials. These lesson plans examine the lives of children in developing countries who are affected by poverty, armed conflict, child labor or disability. For more information, or to register to participate in the Fall 2007 pilot project, contact: Marie Bresnahan, Director of Education, U.S. Fund for UNICEF at: mbresnahan@unicefusa.org or 212-880-9135.
Eligibility: teachers of grades 6-8 and 9-12.
Deadline: n/a

"Wachovia Foundation Grants Support Educational Improvement"
The Wachovia Foundation is interested in working with non-profit organizations that are implementing and/or developing tailored approaches to improving education in their communities. Programs must support pre-K – 12 public education and address the systemic issues related to teachers and teaching, such as professional development, school support, recruitment or retention.
Maximum Award: $500,000.
Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations with a mission to improve public education in AL, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, MD, MS, NC, NY, NJ, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, or Washington, D.C.
Deadline: n/a.

"Show Me the Money: Tips & Resources for Successful Grant Writing"
Many educators have found that outside funding, in the form of grants, allows them to provide their students with educational experiences and materials their own districts can't afford. Learn how they get those grants -- and how you can get one too. Included: Practical tips to help first-time grant writers get the grants they need.

"Department of Education Forecast of Funding"
This document lists virtually all programs and competitions under which the Department of Education has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards for FY 2006 and provides actual or estimated deadline dates for the transmittal of applications under these programs. The lists are in the form of charts -- organized according to the Department's principal program offices -- and includes previously announced programs and competitions, as well as those planned for announcement at a later date. Note: This document is advisory only and is not an official application notice of the Department of Education. They expect to provide regular updates to this document.