The Intel Model School Program provides equipment for a school or district to enhance their technology by using advanced technology. The Intel Model School Program identifies schools that desire equipment or have a unique project to complete by using Intel products, and can show the improvement in the quality of the education experience for both the teacher and the student by using high-end technology. Award: Seeding of Intel equipment. Eligibility: K-12 schools or school districts. Deadline: Ongoing.
www.intel.com/modelschool
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars Program
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars Program selects high-achieving youth in the Unites States with financial need and provides them, throughout their high school years, with individualized educational services that enable them to develop their talents and abilities. Award: funding and support services. Eligibility: students entering the eighth grade in the fall of 2005 and planning to enter a U.S. high school and also demonstrate financial need. Deadline: May 2, 2005.
www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/content.aspx?page=YounSch
Encouraging Invention and Supporting Rising Inventors
The Lemelson-MIT Program is dedicated to supporting and encouraging invention and seeks to inspire students and rising inventors. Maximum Award: $10,000. Eligibility: high school science, mathematics, and technology teachers at public, private, and vocational schools and their students. Deadline: May 6, 2005. Even if you don't make this year's deadline, you can still get ready for next year!
web.mit.edu/inventeams
What Does Your Neighborhood Mean To You? National Neighborhood Day Short Film Contest
Calling aspiring filmmakers! National Neighborhood Day is hosting a short film contest for both professional and amateur filmmakers to illustrate, through a 5-minute or less film, what their neighborhood means to them. This call for entries in the National Neighborhood Day Short Film Contest is open to K-12 students and adults. There is no entry fee for the Youth Category and the Grand Prize is $2000. The deadline for entries is June 1, 2005. For contest rules, entry form or to download a poster with further information for K-12 students, visit:www.neighborhoodday.org/film.asp
U.S. Dept. of Education Steppingstones of Technology Innovation Program
This grant program is designed to: (1) Improve results for children with disabilities by promoting the development, demonstration, and use of technology, (2) support educational media services activities designed to be of educational value in the classroom setting to children with disabilities, and (3) provide support for captioning and video description that is appropriate for use in the classroom setting. Maximum Award: $100,000-$200,000 Eligibility: State educational agencies (SEAs); local educational agencies (LEAs); public charter schools that are LEAs under State law. Deadline: May 06, 2005
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Making a Difference with Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation has launched its second annual You Can Make a Difference scholarship program, which challenges secondary school students around the world to design technology-based projects to benefit charitable organizations. Previously available only to students from the United States and Canada, the program has been expanded this year to include high-school and secondary-school students around the world. Get more information below:
www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=5829
General Mills' Box Tops for Education
General Mills' Box Tops for Education has launched the third year of its Parents Involvement in Education Grant Program. Ten $2,000 grants will be distributed to school-sponsored parent group recipients across the county in May 2005. Grant applicants must communicate how they would use the grant in their school to establish a program or enhance an existing program that encourages parental involvement in an innovative and creative way. Deadline is April 1, 2005.www.boxtops4education.com/how/news_article.asp?ART=119
Fund for Teachers
Fund for Teachers provides funds for direct grants to teachers to support summer learning opportunities of their own design. Maximum Award: $5,000. Eligibility: teachers who work with students from pre-K through 12th grade, with a minimum of three years teaching experience, full time, spending at least 50% of the time in the classroom at the time grants are approved and made. Deadline: varies by state.
www.fundforteachers.org/how.html
National Dairy Council 3-A-Day of Dairy Nutrition Education Grants—Get Your Students to Compete
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This grant program is designed to address America's low calcium intake and support the philosophy of the nutrition-based marketing and consumer education program, "3-A-Day of Dairy," and to help empower kids to be advocates for healthy eating, including three servings of dairy a day, and an active lifestyle, which contribute to a healthy weight. Maximum Award: $5,000. Eligibility: Individuals and organizations. Please note California, Wisconsin, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are not participating in the 2005 grant program. Deadline: May 13, 2005.nationaldairycouncil.org/health/resources/grant.asp
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation supports non-profit organizations within Dollar General's market area that are established for public use and have an active 501(c)(3) status under the Internal Revenue Service Code. Eligible organizations within the Dollar General market area must be committed to increasing the functional literacy of adults or families and must provide direct literacy services within their community. The Dollar General Literacy Foundation accepts proposals from non-profit literacy providers on an annual basis. Next submission deadline: April 8, 2005.www.dollargeneral.com/community/dgliteracy.aspx
Garden Teaching Grants
In 2005, the National Gardening Association will award 100 Youth Garden Grants to schools, organizations, community centers, clubs, and intergenerational programs throughout the U.S. Each grant consists of a $500 gift card from The Home Depot toward the purchase of supplies, tools, and plants, as well as educational publications from NGA. Click below to learn more.
www.kidsgardening.com/teachers2.asp
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation supports non-profit organizations within Dollar General's market area that are established for public use and have an active 501(c)(3) status under the Internal Revenue Service Code. Eligible organizations within the Dollar General market area must be committed to increasing the functional literacy of adults or families and must provide direct literacy services within their community. The Dollar General Literacy Foundation accepts proposals from non-profit literacy providers on an annual basis. The Foundation's next submission deadline is April 8, 2005. Grants will be announced May 6, 2005.
www.dollargeneral.com/community/dgliteracy.aspx
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes seeks nominations for its 2005 awards. The Barron Prize honors young people ages 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in public service to people and our planet. Each year, ten national winners each receive $2,000 to support their service work or higher education. Nomination deadline is April 30. For more information and to nominate, visit:
www.barronprize.org
Show Me the Money: Tips & Resources for Successful Grant WritingMany educators have found that outside funding through education 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.
www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev039.shtml
Teacher Loan Forgiveness
The Taxpayer-Teacher Protection Act, signed into law last year, authorizes up to $17,500 in loan forgiveness for eligible, highly qualified math, science and special education teachers. To be eligible, teachers (with no outstanding loan balances before Oct. 1, 1998, and who have borrowed before Oct. 1, 2005) must be highly qualified, as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act; must have taught full-time, for five consecutive years, in a Title I school; and must have taught secondary math or science or elementary or secondary special education to students with disabilities. For more information, visit:
www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN0414.html
Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes seeks nominations for its 2005 awards. The Barron Prize honors young people ages 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in public service to people and our planet. Each year, ten national winners each receive $2,000 to support their service work or higher education. Nomination deadline is April 30. For more information and to nominate, visit:
www.barronprize.org
