NON-TEA GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

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Toshiba America Foundation Grants for Grade K-12 Math and Science Teachers

Granting entity: Toshiba America Foundation

Application Deadline: Grade K-5 applications are due once a year, on October 1. Grade 6-12 applications for small grants ($5,000 or less) are accepted throughout the year. Grade 6-12 applications for large grants (more than $5,000) are due twice a year, on February 1 and August 1.

Purpose of Program: Founded with support from Toshiba Corporation and the Toshiba America Group Companies, the Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) believes science and mathematics are exciting fields in which all students can succeed with the proper tools and instruction. TAF grants fund the projects, ideas, and materials that teachers need to innovate in their math and science classrooms. TAF is interested in funding projects designed by teachers or small teams of teachers for use in their own schools. For examples of successful, previously funded projects as well as application forms, visit TAF at the link listed below.
TAF grants support public and nonprofit private schools throughout the United States.

This is not a TEA grant opportunity.

Eligible Applicants: Teachers, or teams of teachers, in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools are eligible to apply for funding for use in their own schools.

TAF Link: http://www.toshiba.com/taf/about.jsp

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Application for Full-service Community Schools Program: Office of Innovation and Improvement

Granting entity: U.S. Department of Education

CFDA Number: 84.215J

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 23, 2010

Purpose of Program: The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program encourages coordination of academic, social, and health services through partnerships between (1) public elementary and secondary schools; (2) the schools' local educational agencies (LEAs); and (3) community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, and other public or private entities. The purpose of this collaboration is to provide comprehensive academic, social, and health services for students, students' family members, and community members that will result in improved educational outcomes for children.. This is not a TEA grant opportunity.

Eligible Applicants: Eligible applicants are a consortium consisting of a local educational agency and one or more community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, or other public or private entities. Consortia must comply with the provisions governing group applications in 34 CFR 75.127 through 75.129 of EDGAR.

RFP Link: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-13781.pdf

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Application for High School Graduation Initiative: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Granting entity: U.S. Department of Education

CFDA Number: 84.360

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 28, 2010

Purpose of Program: The High School Graduation Initiative (formerly known as the School Dropout Prevention [SDP] program) awards grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the implementation of effective, sustainable, and coordinated dropout prevention and reentry programs. Applicants must propose to establish, enhance, or expand effective early intervention programs designed to identify at-risk students and prevent such students from dropping out of school and to identify and encourage youth who have already dropped out of school to re-enter school and complete their secondary education. Applicants must demonstrate in their application their readiness to collaborate with other public or private entities such as state agencies, private-industry businesses, civic organizations, foundations, and community- and faith-based organizations. This is not a TEA grant opportunity.

Eligible Applicants: LEAs that operate schools that serve students in grades 6 through 12 and have annual school dropout rates that are above the state average; or middle schools that feed students into schools that service students in grades 6 through 12 and that have annual school dropout rates that are above the state average.

RFP Link: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-14732.pdf

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Application for Smaller Learning Communities Program: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Granting entity: U.S. Department of Education

CFDA Number: 84.215L

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 6, 2010

Purpose of Program: The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the restructuring of large public high schools (i.e., schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students) into smaller units for the purpose of improving academic achievement in large public high schools. These smaller units include freshman academies, multigrade academies organized around career interests or other themes, ‘‘houses’’ in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools within-a-school. These structural changes are typically complemented by other personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs.

In order to be considered for funding, applicants are required to demonstrate in the application how they will prepare all students to succeed in postsecondary education and careers and how they will provide teachers with common planning time. Priority points will be awarded to projects in which at least one of the included schools is low achieving; additional priority points are available to projects in which 50% or more of included schools are low achieving. Please refer to the RFP for details on application requirements and priority points.

This is not a TEA grant opportunity.

Eligible Applicants: LEAs, including schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education and education service centers (ESCs), are eligible to apply. LEAs may apply on behalf of no more than five schools.

RFP Link: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-15084.pdf

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation and Winnick Family Foundation Field Trip Grant Programs

Granting entity:Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation and the Winnick Family Foundation

Application Deadline: Grant applications must be postmarked no later than September 1, 2010. The grant application must include proof that the field trip to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) has already been booked. See the request for proposal (link below) for instructions on how to book the field trip before submitting the grant application and how to include proof of booking with the application.

Purpose of Program: This grant is open to teachers of grades 4-12 in U.S.-based public and nonpublic schools that have a low-income student enrollment greater than 30 percent. Low-income students are defined by the Illinois State Board of Education as students who: 1) come from families receiving public aid, 2) live in institutions that serve neglected or delinquent children, 3) are supported in foster homes with public funds, or 4) are eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches. Grants provide funding for students in eligible schools to visit the ALPLM at no or greatly reduced cost to the school district by covering or supplementing transportation costs. Funds will be awarded for transportation costs only, with a maximum grant award of $1,500. This is not a TEA grant opportunity.

Eligible Applicants: Teachers of grades 4-12 in U.S. public and nonpublic schools that have a low-income student enrollment greater than 30 percent, according to the Illinois State Board of Education’s definition. See Purpose of Program for that definition.

RFP Link:  http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=299300019

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Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy 2011 National Grant Competition for Development of Literacy Skills for Adult Primary Care Givers and Their Children

Granting entity: Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

Application Deadline: The application must be received by close of business, September 10, 2011

Purpose of Program: The foundation'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.  A total of approximately $650,000 will be awarded; no grant request should exceed $65,000. For more information on required elements of the proposed program, see the 2011 Checklist for Competitiveness, available from the link to the request for proposal (below). This is not a TEA grant opportunity.

Eligible Applicants: In order to be considered eligible for a grant, an organization must meet the following criteria: 

• The organization must have current nonprofit or public status (ISDs are eligible) and must have been in existence for two or more years as of the date of the application.
• The organization must have maintained fiscal accountability.
• The organization must operate an instructional literacy program that has been in existence for at least 2 years and 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]).  

RFP Link: http://www.barbarabushfoundation.com/site/c.jhLSK2PALmF/b.4344681/k.8F91/National_Grants.htm

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Horace Mann Teacher Fellowships at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Granting entity: Horace Mann and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation

Application Deadline:The online application closes at 8:00 a.m., January 3, 2011.

Purpose of Program: This fellowship program offers fifty U.S. teachers the opportunity to attend a five-day study program focusing on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Fellows attend one of two five-day sessions — one in June 2011 and one in July 2011 — at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. The fellowship brings together exceptional educators from across the United States to develop strategies for applying historical content in the classroom and across the curriculum. The curriculum is geared toward teachers of students in grades four to 12. No special knowledge of history or Lincoln is required. The grant application consists of a resume and two 250-word essays on assigned topics. See the request for proposal (RFP) link below for details. This is not a TEA grant opportunity.