Teaching American History Grants

Teaching American History grants will support programs to raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history.
> frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2001_register&docid=01-12931-filed

The NEA Foundation

Grants are provided for the purpose of engaging in high-quality professional development or implementing project-based learning and break-the-mold innovations that raise student achievement.
Maximum Award: $5,000
Eligibility: public school teachers, public school education support professionals, and faculty and staff in public higher education institutions.
> www.neafoundation.org/grants.htm

NEA Fine Arts Grants

On behalf of the National Education Association (NEA), The NEA Foundation offers NEA Fine Arts grants to NEA members. Available to elementary (grades K-6) school art specialists through local NEA affiliates, the grants allow fine arts educators to create and implement programs that promote learning among students at risk of school failure.
> www.neafoundation.org/programs/finearts.htm

AT&T Foundation Education Grants

The foundation’s scope is national, emphasizing support of higher education and institutions and national organizations serving the academic community, and K-12 education. Areas of funding under this category include programs/projects that use technology to enhance teaching and learning, encourage family involvement in schools, provide professional development opportunities for educators, prepare future teachers for the learning environment, and implement plans for lifelong learning and community collaboration. The foundation maintains a local giving program to serve communities where the company has a presence. Types of support include annual campaigns, consulting services, emergency funds, matching funds, employee matching gifts, fellowships, program development, general/operating support, and technical assistance.
> www.att.com/foundation/

Citigroup Foundation

In early childhood and primary and secondary education, grants support early literacy development, technology-based curriculum resources and career and college preparation programs. The Foundation also provides grants for teacher training and innovative teaching strategies that increase student achievement. Programs that enhance learning by integrating the arts into school curricula and increase student access to leading cultural institutions are also funded. In higher education, grants are made to improve student and curriculum development for graduate and undergraduate business programs.
> www.citigroup.com/citigroup/corporate/foundation/index.htm

Fund for Teachers Professional Development Grants

The Fund for Teachers provides grants of up to $5,000 to classroom teachers with a minimum of three years experience, so that they may participate in training and enriching activities that will improve and enhance their skills as teachers. Grants will be made solely to fund participation by grant recipients in summer professional and personal development activities. Applicants must be employed as a public or private teacher in K-12th grade at the time grants are approved and made. Since 1998, 567 teachers in seven cities – Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Oakland, St. Paul, and Tulsa – have received funding, including 267 Fellows during the summer of 2003. FFT Fellows have participated in programs and traveled in 45 countries on 6 continents. In 2004 Fund for Teachers continues to expand and will award funds to 444 teachers including for the first time, teachers in rural Colorado; rural Oklahoma; Boston, Massachusetts; and to the national network of Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound schools.
> www.fundforteachers.org

Support for Study and Professional Advancement of Teachers

K-12. Wright Fellowships for Teachers of Science provide support for study and professional advancement to teachers whose significant innovations in their school’s science curriculum have improved their students’ understanding of science.
Maximum Award: $47,500
Eligibility: full-time teachers, at the elementary, middle-school or high-school level with a minimum of five years’ science teaching experience.
> www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/fellowships/fullfel.html

Joyner Foundation (Tom)

The Tom Joyner Foundation has teamed up with the National Education Association (NEA) to help tomorrow’s teachers. The Foundation and NEA are offering financial assistance and professional development assistance to help teachers who are working under provisional certification and teacher candidates. In addition, the Joyner Foundation is providing funding ($700,000) to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to increase the number of certified minority teachers who are willing to return to predominately minority-serving schools.
> www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/foundation/index
> www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/misc/nea

State Farm Companies Foundation Education Grants

Funded by: State Farm Companies Foundation
Description: To support K-12 public education, the following types of grants will be considered: 1) Striving for Teacher Excellence, which will improve teacher quality; 2) Service-Learning programs that integrate core classroom curriculum with service to the community; 3) Systematic improvement, or those programs and processes that require longer periods of time and investment of resources to impact measurable student achievement; and 4) Operation Respect through the "Don’t Laugh At Me" project, a curriculum-based program that is designed to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical cruelty some children inflict upon one another. For higher education, The Foundation provides funding to scholarship programs that are administered by the American Indian College Fund, the Hispanic scholarship Fund, and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Program areas: Community involvement/volunteerism, ESL/bilingual/ foreign language, general education, math, professional development, reading, science/environmental, social studies, technology, all other
Recipients: Public school, higher education
Deadline: None
Total amount: $20 million
Average amount: $100 to $10,000
Contact person: Kristy Funk, Asst. Secy.
Telephone: 309-766-2161
Email: kristy.funk.cm3n@statefarm.com
Availability: All states
> www.statefarm.com/foundati/foundati.htm

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.
> news.publiceducation.org/t/5780/176869/182/0/

Public School Performing Arts Professional Development Programs

The Dana Foundation has extended its longtime interest in education to the support of innovative professional development programs leading to improved teaching of the performing arts in public schools.
Maximum Award: $75,000.
Eligibility: Projects for Professional artists teaching performing arts in public schools or In-school arts specialists who teach performing arts in the public schools that originate in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; and their surrounding areas within a fifty-mile radius. No awards to individuals.
> www.dana.org/grants/artseducation/

Improve Education – Teacher Incentive Fund

Grants to support programs that develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools.
Dept. of Education
Eligibility: LEAs and SEAs
Funds Available $94,050,000, 15 grants awarded
Please contact Margaret McNeely, 202-205-5224

Rural Teacher Grants

National Geographic Society Grable-Curtis Rural Teacher Grants for teachers or school administrators in a rural area. The Society has a special interest in supporting teachers in Idaho and Maine.
Maximum Award: $500
Eligibility: K-12.
> www.nationalgeographic.com/education/teacher_community/pdf/Grable-Curtis05.pdf

Braitmayer Foundation Education Grants

These grants support K-12 education through curricular and school reform initiatives, professional development for teachers and local community efforts. Typically, the grants are used for seed money or challenge grants.
Program areas: General education, professional development
Recipients: Public, private/charter
Average amount: Up to $35,000 per grant
Contact person: Robert L. Kirkpatrick Jr.
Telephone: 860-638-4688
> www.braitmayerfoundation.org/guid.htm

SHOPA Kids In Need Teacher Grants

Kids In Need Teacher Grants provide K-12 educators with funding to help them realize their dreams of providing innovative learning opportunities for their students. The SHOPA Kids In Need Foundation helps to engage students in the learning process by supporting our most creative and important educational resource – our nation’s teachers.
> www.shopa.org/shopa_foundation/teacher_programs.php

Microsoft Innovative Teachers Education Grant

Nearly $50 million in software licenses and online community-building tools will be awarded to schools, colleges, and departments of education that partner with local school districts. The goal: Provide technology-related professional development opportunities to faculty members, prospective teachers, and practicing teachers.
> www.microsoft.com/Education/?ID=InTeachersGrant

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

The Foundations support secondary education programs, primarily those that address innovative professional development programs that strengthen teachers and their teaching in grades 9-12. The Foundations are particularly interested in programs that involve sustained partnerships between faculties of colleges and school districts or collaborative efforts involving reform organizations, colleges/ universities and high schools.

Special consideration will be given to projects in their early stages that address the concerns and problems of secondary education on a national level. Therefore, proposals should strive to develop solutions with potential for wide application or replication.
> www.jvm.com/davis/PROGRAMS.HTM#secondary