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December 29, 2010
"Our focus is on helping teachers find the resources they need to educate our children."
Joe Mizereck
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Joe Mizereck
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Aetna Foundation |
| Program: | Aetna Foundation Grants |
| Deadline: | February 15, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Learning more about the underlying causes of obesity can inform and shape effective population-based health and wellness programs.The Aetna Foundation wants to understand the contributors to obesity, particularly among minority populations, and what supports and sustains better choices that can stave off overeating and reduce inactivity.Grant-making in this area focuses on initiatives that create a better understanding of the root causes of the obesity epidemic. Examples of grants we would support include projects and/or studies that identify causes of obesity and potential best practices for addressing obesity, such as: Domestic food policies and their impact on individual food choices The impact of our neighborhoods and the “built environment” on promoting population health and weight loss Assessments of why communities with high rates of food insecurity also are more likely to experience high rates of obesity How children use recreation time How school lunch and food policies impact our children |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Child Welfare Foundation |
| Program: | Child Welfare Foundation Grants |
| Deadline: | July 15, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | We accept proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects which meet one of the Foundation’s two basic purposes: To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth; and To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge already possessed by well-established organizations, to the end that such information can be more adequately used by society. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF) |
| Program: | Baseball Tomorrow Fund Grants |
| Deadline: | April 01, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF) will initially evaluate your request based on the following key criteria – Does this project... v Increase the number of youth participating in baseball and softball programs? v Improve the quality of youth baseball and softball programs? v Create new or innovative ways of expanding and improving baseball or softball programs? v Generate matching funds? v Address programs for children aged 10-16? v Support existing programs which have demonstrated success in providing a quality baseball or softball experience for youth? v Address opportunities for minorities and women? |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. |
| Program: | Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) |
| Deadline: | May 02, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is the highest recognition that a kindergarten through 12th-grade mathematics or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1983, this program authorizes the President to bestow up to 108 awards each year. The National Science Foundation administers PAEMST on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Awards are given to mathematics and science teachers from each of the 50 states and four U.S. jurisdictions. The jurisdictions are Washington, D.C.; Puerto Rico; Department of Defense Schools; and the U.S. territories as a group (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). The teachers are recognized for their contributions to teaching and learning and their ability to help students make progress in mathematics and science. In addition to honoring individual achievement, the goal of the award program is to exemplify the highest standards of mathematics and science teaching. Awardees serve as models for their colleagues, inspiration to their communities, and leaders in the improvement of mathematics and science education. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Amgen Foundation |
| Program: | Amgen Award for Science Teaching |
| Deadline: | February 11, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Amgen encourages excellence in science education by recognizing and honoring extraordinary K-12 science teachers with the Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence. Since the program’s 1992 inception, Amgen has awarded over $2.5 million to educators who make outstanding contributions to science teaching and a measurable impact on students’ lives. The 34 selected winners will receive an unrestricted cash award of $5,000, with the recipient’s school receiving an additional $5,000 in the form of a restricted grant to be used for the expansion or enhancement of science programs, science resources, or professional development of science teachers. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Sodexo Foundation |
| Program: | STOP Hunger Scholarships |
| Deadline: | February 18, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Recognizing and rewarding students who have made a significant impact in the fight against hunger.The Sodexo Foundation seeks applicants for the STOP Hunger Scholarships to recognize students in the fight against hunger in America. More than 49 million people are at risk of hunger, including nearly 17 million children. The Sodexo Foundation works to ensure that every child in the U.S., especially those most at risk, grows up with dependable access to enough nutritious food to enable them to lead a healthy, productive life. The STOP Hunger Scholarships recognize and reward students who have made a significant impact in the fight against hunger in the United States. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Federal |
| Source: | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST |
| Program: | Baldrige Award |
| Deadline: | May 03, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive. The Award focuses on performance in six key areas: Product and service outcomes Customer-focused outcomes Financial and market outcomes Workforce-focused outcomes Process effectiveness outcomes Leadership outcomes Organizations do not receive the Award for specific products or services. To be selected as an Award recipient, an organization must have a system that ensures continuous improvement in overall performance in delivering products and/or services provides an approach for satisfying and responding to customers and stakeholders Up to 8 Awards are given annually across six eligibility categories: manufacturing, service, small business, education, health care, and nonprofit. Award recipients that are nominated for a subsequent Award are not included in the total cap of 18. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation |
| Program: | Christopher Columbus Awards |
| Deadline: | February 07, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The Christopher Columbus Awards is a national, community-based science and technology program for middle school students. The program challenges the students to work in teams of three to four, with an adult coach, to identify a problem in their community and apply the scientific method to create an innovative solution to that problem. Eight finalist teams and their coaches will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Walt Disney World� to attend National Championship Week and compete for valuable U.S. Savings Bonds and the $25,000 Columbus Foundation Community Grant, plus a $200 development grant to further refine their idea. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | LEGO Children’s Fund |
| Program: | LEGO Children’s Fund Grants |
| Deadline: | April 15, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Organizations with specific, identifiable needs primarily in these areas of support: Early childhood education and development that is directly related to creativity Technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Horace Mann |
| Program: | Horace Mann Educator Scholarship Program |
| Deadline: | March 01, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Are you looking to further your education? Let us help! We are awarding 35 scholarships totaling $30,000 to Kindergarten through 12th grade teachers, librarians or teacher's aides of any discipline. (1) $5,000 scholarship payable over four years. (16) $1,000 scholarships payable over two years. (18) $500 one-time scholarships. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | ING |
| Program: | ING Unsung Heroes |
| Deadline: | April 30, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Are you an educator with a class project that is short on funding but long on potential? Do you know a teacher looking for grant dollars? ING Unsung Heroes� could help you turn great ideas into reality for students. For more than 10 years, and with $3.0 million in awarded grants, ING Unsung Heroes has proven to be an A+ program with educators. The program’s “alumni” have inspired success in the classroom and impacted countless numbers of students. Each year, 100 educators are selected to receive $2,000 to help fund their innovative class projects. Three of those are chosen to receive the top awards of an additional $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000 |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | DoSomething.org |
| Program: | Do Something Awards |
| Deadline: | March 01, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Since 1996, DoSomething.org has honored the nation’s best young world-changers, 25 and under*. Do Something Award nominees and winners represent the pivotal "do-ers" in their field, cause, or issue. In 2011 the five nominees will be rewarded with a community grant, media coverage and continued support from DoSomething.org. The grand prize winner will receive $100,000 during the live broadcast. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Inc/Scholastic |
| Program: | Lexus Eco Challenge |
| Deadline: | January 19, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The Lexus Eco Challenge is a life-changing opportunity for teens across the nation to make a difference in the environmental health of our planet, one community at a time. The program is designed to inspire and empower middle and high school students to learn about the environment and take action to improve it. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Gates Millennium Scholars Program |
| Program: | 2011 Gates Millennium Scholars Program Applications Available |
| Deadline: | January 10, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The 2011 Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) scholarship application is now available. GMS will select 1,000 talented students to receive a good-through-graduation scholarship to use at any college or university of their choice. We provide Gates Millennium Scholars with personal and professional development through our leadership programs along with academic support throughout their college career. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Captain Planet Foundation |
| Program: | Captain Planet Foundation Grants |
| Deadline: | March 31, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The Foundation is interested in funding innovative programs that empower children and youth to work towards solving environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities. All funded projects must involve young people ages 6-18 (elementary through high school). |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | NEA and YSA |
| Program: | NEA Youth Leaders for Literacy |
| Deadline: | January 05, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | Youth Leaders for Literacy will award 30 young people from across the U.S. each with $500 grants. Successful projects will be youth-led and address an established literacy need in the applicant's school or community. The projects will launch on NEA’s Read Across America Day on March 2, 2011 and culminate on Global Youth Service Day, April 15-17, 2011. |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | William T. Grant Foundation |
| Program: | Invites Letters of Inquiry for Investigator Initiated Grants on Youth Settings |
| Deadline: | January 06, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The William T. Grant Foundation supports research to understand and improve the everyday settings of youth between the ages of 8 and 25 in the United States. The foundation seeks to fund high-quality research that addresses its current research interests: enhancing the understanding of how youth settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved; and when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved. The foundation is interested in supporting research on a range of settings that are important for youth development |
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| Entered: | Dec 29th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Lemelson Foundation and MIT's School of Engineering |
| Program: | Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Program Offers High School Invention Grants |
| Deadline: | April 22, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | InvenTeam projects span many fields from assistive devices to environmental technologies and consumer goods. Applicants are encouraged to consider needs of the world's poorest people (those earning $2/day) when brainstorming invention ideas. Some InvenTeams pursue inventions that also augment STEM curriculum such as Project Lead the way. |
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| Entered: | Dec 27th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | STR – School Technology Resources |
| Program: | Realize Science Technology Grant for Agriculture in the Classroom |
| Deadline: | March 31, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | The Realize Science Technology Grant for Agriculture in the Classroom will award $5,000 worth of cutting edge science education equipment to K-12 teachers across the U.S. this spring. Those awarded the grant will receive new hand-held video microscopes with software to take still pictures, video, time lapse movies, etc. |
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| Entered: | Dec 16th, 2010 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | American Psychological Foundation |
| Program: | American Psychological Foundation’s (APF) 2011 Pre-College Grant Program |
| Deadline: | May 01, 2011 |
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| Purpose: | This program provides financial support for efforts aimed at improving the quality of education in psychological science and its application in the secondary schools. Proposals must focus on supplying education for talented high school students. |
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