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for K-12
The
Corning Inc. Foundation - Develops and administers
projects in support of educational, cultural, and
community organizations.
Bell South Foundation - Grants to school districts
and nonprofits that offer educational services in
select states.
General
Mills Foundation - Grants are given in education,
arts and culture, and health and nutrition.
Starbuck
Foundation Opportunity Grants - Supports local
community literacy organizations with low-income,
at-risk, and/or low literacy populations that encourage
people to learn in creative ways and involve Starbuck's
employees and/or venues in project activities.
The
Gateway Foundation - Promised to provide free
technology training to 75,000 educators in public
and private schools. Successful applicants will
receive one year of free access to an online database
containing more than 400 technology training courses.
The
Citigroup Foundation - Aims to strengthen education
in low-income neighborhoods. The "smarter schools"
initiative supports improvements in the governance
of public schools and higher standards for student
performance. The "smarter schools" initiative
supports innovative classroom technologies and successful
school-to-work programs.
PowerUP
Grants - Seeks to serve underserved youth in
the United States through technology education and
training.
The
Toshiba America Foundation - Awards grants for
programs and activities that improve teaching of
science, mathematics, and technology for middle
and high school students.
Tech
Corps - Provides no-cost assistance in maintaining
their technology systems to schools connected to
the internet.
Verizon
Foundation Grants - Focus on technology applications
and programs in one or more of the following areas:
literacy, the digital divide, economic and community
development, women's issues, overcoming disabilities,
and math and science education.
The
Sprint Foundation - Supports educational projects
that foster school reform through the use of new
technologies and through fresh approaches to the
enhancement of teacher's skills.
The
AOL Time Warner Foundation - Supports technology
projects in four major areas of priority. Equipping
Kids for the 21st Century, Extending Internet Benefits
to All, Engaging Communities in the Arts, and Empowering
Citizens and Civic Participation.
Merrill
Lynch Foundation Grants - Funds alternative
education programs.
Hazen
Foundation - The goal of the foundation's education
grant-making is to foster effective schools for
all children and full partnership for parents and
communities in school reform efforts.
Intel
- Offers a wide range of support for many technology-and-science
related initiatives.
AMP
Inc - Provides extensive funding for projects
that enhance learning opportunities for students.
SMARTer
Kids Foundation - Provides grants and programs
to assist educators in purchasing technology for
their classrooms.
The
National Education Association's Foundation
- Offers more than 300 small grants to fund classroom
innovations or professional development for improved
practices in public K-12 schools and higher-education
institutions.
Federally
Funded Educational Programs
Educational
Technology State Grant - This consolidates:
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund and Technology
Innovation Challenge grants. Funds are distributed
to states and in turn to local districts based on
50% Title I formula and 50% competitively.
Computers
For Learning - The federal government has placed
hundreds of thousands of surplus computers in schools
across the country on a needs-first basis.
Adult
Ed-State Administered Basic Grant - Provides
formula grants to states for adult basic and secondary
education and English as a second language (ESL).
Character
Education - This program provides federal funding
for character education programs.
Community
Technology Centers - These grants fund technology
learning centers in low-income communities in public
housing facilities, community centers, libraries,
and other educational facilities.
Comprehensive
School Reform - This program focuses on school-wide
efforts to improve education. Funds may be used
to select or design a school reform model that is
research-based and will help students reach state
performance standards.
Early
Reading First - This program seeks to enhance
reading readiness for children in high-poverty areas
and where a high number of children are not reading
at grade level. It is aimed at 3-5 year olds to
help them prepare to learn to read.
Improvement
of education Achievement - Assists states in
developing assessments required under the No Child
Left Behind legislation. Funds may be used to pay
the costs of developing additional standards and
assessments required by law. Funds may also be used
to administer the tests and other accountability
measures.
Innovative
Education State Grants - Title V - This is a
formula grant to assist state and local education
efforts to improve student achievement by implementing
broad-based reform efforts and other innovative
educational improvement practices. Funds can be
used for curricular materials, professional development,
software, technology, and school repair.
Language
Acquisition State Grants (Formerly Bilingual Education)
- This program enables states, school districts,
schools, or other eligible entities to implement
English-as-a-second-language (ESL) programs or other
appropriate instructional programs on a school-wide
or a system-wide basis. Money may be used for services
and activities, such as curriculum development,
purchase of instructional materials, education software,
tutoring and counseling, or to pay for personnel
trained to provide services to Limited English Proficient
(LEP) students.
Magnet
Schools Assistance in Desegregating Districts
- These funds are available to school districts
that are under a court-ordered or federally mandated
desegregation plan. Schools are designed to support
an enhanced curriculum and attract racially diverse
student populations.
Mathematics
and Science Partnerships - This program encourages
states, institutions of higher learning, districts,
and schools to form a partnership to improve student
performance in math and science. Funds may be used
for professional development, summer workshops,
and distance learning programs.
Parental
Assistance and Local Family Information Centers
- Provides training and information and enable parents
to understand the educational needs of their children.
Grantees are nonprofit groups serving rural and
urban areas. Half of the funds must be used for
services in areas with high numbers of low income
students.
Perkins
Vocational and Applied Technology Act - This
program supports equal access by special populations
at the secondary and postsecondary level to vocational
and technology education activities, plus related
professional development. The state receives formula
grants, school districts then receive sub-grants.
Reading
First - Provides assistance to state and districts
in setting up "scientific, research-based"
reading programs for children in grades K to 3.
States may use 20% to provide professional development
and must distribute 80% to districts through a competitive-grant
process, giving priority to high-poverty areas.
Funds may be used to purchase software, instructional
materials, and for staff development.
Rural Education - Funding is available for two
programs. First it provides flexible grants to small,
rural districts and allows them the added freedom
in spending money under a few major ESEA programs.
If the district does not qualify, it would be eligible
for a second initiative, which provides flexible
grants to rural districts with at least 20% of the
students living in poverty.
Tech-Prep
Education - Program offers assistance to states
to award grants to a consortia of school districts
and postsecondary institutions to operate programs
that facilitate technical preparation in applied
science; engineering technology; industrial, mechanical,
or practical trades; agriculture; health; or business.
Programs must include the last two years of high
school and two years of postsecondary education,
leading to an associate degree or a two-year certificate.
Title
I - This formula grant program provides districts
with extra resources to help improve instruction
in high-poverty schools and ensure that poor and
minority children have the same opportunities as
their peers to meet the challenging state academic
standards. States must develop standards in reading
and math and assessments linked to those standards
for all students in grades 3 to 8. Funds may be
used for activities that scientifically based research
suggests will be most effective in helping all students
meet these standards.
This
page lists the names of schools that have received
the 21st Century Community Learning Center Grants.
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Preparing
Tomorrows Teachers to Use Technology - Ensures
that teachers are prepared to integrate technology
into the curriculum and to use new teaching and
learning styles enabled by technology.
Challenge
Grants - Helps to secure long term support for
and improvements in their programs, activities,
and resources related to the humanities, including
the use and application of technology.
Charter Schools - This program provides funding
for the design and implementation of public charter
schools.
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