Teaching American History Grants

The Teaching American History Grant Program supports projects that aim to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of traditional American history. Grant awards assist local educational agencies (LEAs), in partnership with entities that have extensive content expertise, to develop, implement, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative, cohesive models of professional development. By helping teachers to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of traditional American history as a separate subject within the core curriculum, these programs are intended to improve instruction and raise student achievement.

http://www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/index.html

National Education Association Grants

These NEA grants provide opportunities for teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to engage in high-quality professional development and lead their colleagues in professional growth. Grants also fund project-based learning and break-the-mold innovations that significantly improve achievement for underserved students. Awards for Learning & Leadership are $2,000 for individuals and $5,000 for groups engaged in collegial study. Awards for Innovation Grants are $5,000. Applicants must be practicing U.S. public school teachers in grades K–12, public school education support professionals, or faculty and staff at public higher education institutions. Applications may be submitted at any time.

http://www.nfie.org/programs/grantguides.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.

http://www.fundforteachers.org/

The NEA Learning & Leadership Grant

Learning & Leadership Grants provide opportunities for teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to engage in high-quality professional development and lead their colleagues in professional growth. The grant amount is $2,000 for individuals and $5,000 for groups engaged in collegial study.

http://www.neafoundation.org/grants.htm

Dana Foundation – Art Education in Rural Areas

The Dana Foundation grants professional development programs for arts educators in rural areas of the United States. As in the Dana Three-City grants, the Foundation is interested primarily in training for in-school arts specialists and professional artists who teach the performing arts to students pre-K-12 in the public schools. To be considered for this round, you must fill out a Letter of Intent in which you must describe why the proposed service area is considered to be rural, what challenges this presents and how the proposed project addresses these challenges. http://www.dana.org/grants/rural/

Dana Foundation – Art Education Three City Initiative

Dana has extended its longtime interest in education to support innovative professional development programs leading to improved teaching of the performing arts in public schools. Within this broad field, the Foundation is interested primarily in training for in-school arts specialists and professional artists who teach students pre-K-12 in the public schools. The Foundation supports projects that originate in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and their surrounding areas within a fifty-mile radius.

http://www.dana.org/grants/threecity/

Dominion Educational Partnership

The Dominion Foundation is currently accepting applications for Education Partnership grants to encourage the development of new programs to strengthen math and science education in kindergarten through grade 12. Maximum Award: $5000.

Eligibility: Accredited public and private elementary and secondary schools and public school divisions in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia.

http://www.dom.com/about/education/grants/grants.jsp

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

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.

http://www.jvm.com/davis/PROGRAMS.HTM#secondary

Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

Program Overview
The program supports projects to develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, to conduct research, to attract high school and college students to consider careers in libraries, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and library staff. Categories of funding are as follows:

Doctoral Programs
Master’s Level Programs
Research
Pre-Professional Programs

http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/21centuryLibrarian.shtm

Westwood Educational Foundation

Founded in 1991, the Westwood Educational Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to encouraging learning beyond the traditional school curriculum and it champions initiatives that offer self-education opportunities for all members of the community.

Annual Grant Program
Our Annual Grant Program accepts grant applications for any amount of money, for programs or projects that reflect the vision of our organization’s mission statement. Applications in our Annual Grant Program are due on March 15 and recipients are notified of the Board’s funding decisions by mid-May.

Mini Grant Program
Our Mini Grant Program is designed to provide funds for worthy educational programs or projects that may not have been apparent during our Annual Grant Program cycle. Grant criteria and eligibility requirements are identical to those listed for our Annual Grant Program, but grant requests in the Mini Grant program may not exceed $1000. Grant applications are due by specific dates in the fall and winter and applications will be voted on by the Board at its next regular meeting. Recipients will be notified of funding decisions within one month. Please see the mini grant application form for specific deadline dates for the current year.

Two categories of grant applications are available in either grant program: Education Grants and Professional Development Grants. General grant criteria and eligibility requirements are listed below for each grant category. http://www.westwoodeducationalfoundation.org/WEF_Grants.htm

Braitmayer Foundation Education Grants

The Foundation is interested in K-12 education throughout the United States. Of particular interest are:

• Curricular and school reform initiatives.
• Preparation of and professional development opportunities for teachers, particularly those which encourage people of high ability and diverse background to enter and remain in K-12 teaching.

GUIDELINES
The Foundation is pleased to have its grants used as seed money, challenge grants, or to match other grants to the recipient organizations. Presently, the Foundation has two mechanisms for making grants depending upon their size.

1. Grants up to $35,000
Applicants should submit an original and seven copies of the following documents due in the Foundation office by June 1st:

• A two page Letter of Inquiry describing the proposed project, including timeframe. Please provide contact information, including email. Appendices should be limited
• Proposed budget
• Proof of 501 (c)(3) status or other tax-exempt ruling letter.

By September 1st, the trustees will invite selected organizations to submit full proposals due November 15th. Normally a representative of the Foundation will conduct a site visit prior to the end of February. Decisions will be announced by March 15th. Successful organizations must wait two years before reapplication.

2. Grants up to $10,000
Applicants should submit an original and seven copies of the following documents due in the Foundation office by June 1st or November 15th:

• A three page Proposal describing the project, including timeframe. Please provide contact information, including email. Appendices should be limited.
• Proposed budget
• Proof of 501 (c)(3) status or other tax-exempt ruling letter.

Decisions will be announced by September 1st and March 15th. Successful organizations must wait two years before reapplication for a grant up to $10,000 or before beginning application for a grant up to $35,000. http://www.braitmayerfoundation.org/guid.htm

NSTA New Science Teacher Academy

NSTA New Science Teacher AcademyThe NSTA New Science Teacher Academy is an initiative designed to encourage and support new middle and secondary school science educators in their first few years of teaching. Co-founded by the Amgen Foundation, this innovative professional development program aims to

Strengthen quality science teaching,
Enhance teacher confidence and classroom excellence,
Improve teacher content knowledge.
The Academy will initially support up to 200 science teachers across the nation this year.

There are two tiers of participation in the New Science Teacher Academy: NSTA Fellows and NSTA Associate Fellows. Both Fellowships include a yearlong immersion in a host of science-related activities and professional development opportunities. A comprehensive NSTA membership package and an NSTA funded trip to attend NSTA’s national conference are among the wide array of learning experiences available to participants. NSTA Fellows will also receive online mentoring with trained mentors who teach in the same discipline. Through the support of the Amgen Foundation, the selected candidates will be named Amgen–NSTA Fellows and Amgen–NSTA Associate Fellows. A selection committee comprised of NSTA leaders will choose the participants for the 2007–2008 Academy.

http://www.nsta.org/academy/

Horace Mann Scholarships

Horace Mann is dedicated to serving the needs of the educational community. The Horace Mann Companies is offering $30,000 in scholarships for public and private school K-12 educators to take college courses.

In May 2009, The Horace Mann Companies will announce the recipients. One recipient will receive $5,000 in scholarship funds payable over four years, and fifteen other recipients will receive $1,000 each in scholarship funds payable over two years. Twenty additional recipients will each receive one-time $500 awards. Scholarship money will be paid directly to each recipient's college or university for tuition, fees and other educational expenses.

Scholarship applicants will be judged on a written essay and school and community activities. Financial need is not a consideration, but applicants who have all educational expenses paid through other scholarships and/or grants are ineligible.

https://www.horacemann.com/edscholarship/

Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Schoolteachers

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the federal government. As part of the NEH’s We the People program, we offer the following Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Schoolteachers. Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops provide the opportunity for K-12 educators to engage in intensive study and discussion of important topics in American history. These one-week academies will give participants direct experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites and the use of archival and other primary historical evidence. Landmarks Workshops present the best scholarship on a specific landmark or related cluster of landmarks, enabling participants to gain a sense of the importance of historical places, to make connections between what they learn in the Workshop and what they teach, and to develop enhanced teaching materials for their classrooms.
http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html

Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the Federal Government. Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes.

http://www.neh.gov//projects/si-school.html