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This global education Funding Watch bulletin lists grants, contests and funding resources for K-12 teachers, students and schools. Some entries include a suggestion for how to connect the resource with a OneWorld Classrooms program.
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For: International Libraries
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award's Global Libraries initiative invites applications from libraries and similar organizations outside the United States that have created new ways to offer these key services:
free public access to computers and the Internet; public training to assist users in accessing online information that can help improve their lives; technology training for library staff; and outreach to underserved communities.
Applications are open only to institutions outside the United States that are working with disadvantaged communities. To be eligible, the applying institution must allow all members of the
public to use computers and the Internet free of charge in a community space.
The award recipient will receive $1 million.
Deadline: November 1, 2008
For: K-12 US Teachers, Administrators and Classified Staff
The Target Field Trip Grants program will award U.S. educators grants of up to $800 each to fund a field trip for their students. Target Field Trip Grants may be used to fund trips to art museums,
cultural events, civic experiences, and environmental sites. Up to five thousand grants will be awarded across the United States.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program and share your field trip with your overseas partner class via a PowerPoint or a video. Your partner class can reciprocate by sharing a field trip to a local site of interest near their school, ideally to one that connects with your curriculum or matches a theme for your field trip. Also, take online field trips (some hosted by students) via our Travel & Learn Online content and have your students write an essay comparing the two 'trips.'
2009 SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards
Deadline: November 28, 2008
For: All US K-12 Schools
The SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards recognize the outstanding efforts of students and teachers across the United States who are working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve the environment.
Eight projects will be selected. Each winning organization will receive $10,000; an all-expenses-paid trip for three students and one adult leader to a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens park for a special awards event; one hundred T-shirts to share with school and community partners; and an award trophy and participation certificate for the project leader.
From the eight projects, one outstanding environmental educator/leader will be selected to receive $5,000; an all-expenses-paidtrip for themselves and one guest to a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens park for a special awards event; an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2009 National Science Teachers Association ( http://nsta.org/ ) national conference; and an award trophy and certificate
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Sign up for an Email Q & A Exchange with an overseas parter class through our Classroom Connections and ask your partner class what efforts they are making to protect and preserve their local environment. Document and share each other's efforts through a PowerPoint, video or art exchange.
Deadline: November 28, 2008 (Offers bi-annual grants)
For: US Middle and Secondary Schools
The American Immigration Law Foundation will award grants for the 2008-09 school year of $100 to $500 each to fund a limited number of K-12 grade-level projects that provide education about immigrants and immigration. The foundation seeks to fund activities that are innovative and supportive of AILF's mission of promoting the benefits of immigrants to the United States.
Applications are limited to educators teaching in public or private primary, intermediate, and secondary-level schools. Proposals that are classroom-based will receive strong consideration, and the foundation encourages projects that can be replicated in other classrooms across the nation. This year's program will focus on proposals that relate to the following categories: innovative use of technology; underrepresented minorities; community outreach and partnerships with community based organizations; and math and science.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to interact with partner classes or schools in the origin countries of immigrant groups in your community.
For: US K-12 Schools and Colleges/Universities
NEA Foundation 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.
Student Achievement Grants provide grants of $5,000 to improve the academic achievement of students by engaging in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work should also improve students' habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Train teachers at your school how to make the most of OneWorld Classrooms programs and free online content.
Deadline: November 7, 2008
For: US K-6 Schools
The Love Your Veggies grant program will award grants to elementary schools (grades k-6) across the United States in support of programs that help provide students with increased access to and consumption of fresh, healthy foods made available through an on-campus vegetable consumption program.
The program will award ten grants of $15,000 each. Each grant award will support an elementary school in developing a program offering fresh vegetables and fruits lasting through the 2009-10
school year.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to find out what fruits and vegetables your overseas partner school serves -- and which ones the students' families grow and eat. Document and share each other's efforts through a PowerPoint, video or art exchange.
Do Something's "Increase Your Green" School Competition
Deadline: Activities take place between October 13 and December 8; Deadline for submission of report is December 15, 2008
For: US Middle and Secondary Schools
Do Something is inviting America's middle and high schools to reduce their carbon footprint this fall through the "Increase Your Green" competition. Participants must make concrete efforts toward reducing the environmental impact of their school during the eight-week competition. All initiatives must be youth-designed and -led. A representative from each group must submit an online report of the school or club's actions to save energy, reduce waste, and raise awareness during the competition.
Winners will be chosen based on the impact of their school's actions during the competition. The main judging categories are: 1) energy saved; 2) garbage reduced, recycled, and reused; 3) number of people involved/impacted; and 4) innovative quality of actions and ideas.
Participating schools are eligible for a first-place prize of $1,500, a banner, plaque, and eco-friendly gift bags. Three second-place prizes of $500 each will also be awarded. Winners will be featured on the Do Something Web site and in local press.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to collaborate with an overseas partner school in a region threatened by the global carbon footprint (for example, the Amazon Rain Forest or the Galapagos Islands or China), documenting how both schools 'increase their green.'
Seeds for Education Grant Program
Deadline: November 15, 2008
For: Schools, nature centers and nonprofits
Wild Ones is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the use of natural landscaping with native plant species as an ecologically better alternative to traditional landscaping
practices. Wild Ones members and chapters work with schools and nature centers to plant and maintain natural landscapes in these centers of learning. In 1996, the Wild Ones board of directors started the Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Fund to further foster such projects.
Schools, nature centers, and other nonprofit and not-for-profit places of learning (including houses of worship) with a site available for this stewardship project may apply for an SFE grant.
Project goals should focus on the enhancement and development of an appreciation for nature using native plants. Projects must emphasize involvement of students and volunteers and increase the educational value of the site. Creativity in design is encouraged but must show complete and thoughtful planning. The use of and teaching about native plants and the native plant
community is mandatory and must be appropriate to the local ecoregion and site conditions (soil, water, sunlight).
Funds will be provided only for the purchase of native plants and seed. Cash awards range from $100 to $500 each. Successful grants are eligible for partnership with SFE native plant nursery partners for discounts on seed, plants, etc.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to interact with overseas partner classes or schools, exploring and sharing information about native plants near both schools.
Kids In Need Teacher Grants
Deadline: September 30, 2008
For: All US K-12 Teachers
The School, Home, & Office Products Association Kids In Need Foundation offers Kids In Need
Teacher Grants to provide K-12 educators with funding to provide innovative learning opportunities for their students. Teacher Grant awards range from $100 to $500 each, and are used to finance creative classroom projects. Typically, two hundred to three hundred grants are awarded each year.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: In your grant proposal, suggest completing a Classroom Connections exchange with an overseas partner class or school as your 'creative classroom project.' Choose a theme and world region that matches your curriculum.
Preserve America Community Designation
Deadline: Applications are accepted quarterly. Upcoming deadlines are September 1, 2008 and December 1, 2008
For: US Municipalities, Counties, Neighborhoods and Tribal Communities
Community leaders across the United States are invited to apply for the Preserve America community designation, which recognizes a community's efforts to care for and share its cultural and natural heritage. The designation also makes the community eligible for special federal funding. Preserve America is a White House initiative conducted in cooperation with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and other federal agencies.
Through participation in Preserve America, communities share knowledge about the nation's past, strengthen local identities and local pride, increase neighborhood participation in preserving the country's cultural and natural heritage assets, and support economic vitality. Once a community receives the Preserve America designation, it is eligible to apply for Preserve America grants, which may be used for research and documentation, education and interpretation, planning, marketing, or training and must be matched by the community. In 2008, $7.5 million has been made available for the grants, which range from $20,000 to $150,000 each.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to share with your overseas partner class/school what is amazing about your community and to learn what is amazing about theirs!
Deadline: October 15, 2008
For: US and International Organizations
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the expansion of its
Digital Media and Learning Competition. Now entering its second year, the competition will introduce a new category focusing on young innovators and will accept international submissions.
The competition will award a total of $2 million in two categories. Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards of between $30,000 and $250,000 will be given to projects that demonstrate new modes of participatory learning in which people are encouraged to take part in virtual communities, share ideas, comment on one another's projects, and advance shared goals, while Young Innovator Awards ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 will provide individuals in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 with internships and the opportunity to implement visionary ideas.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Join our Classroom Connections program to create a virtual community and share ideas between students at your school and an overseas partner school.
Deadline: October 31, 2008
For: All US K-12 Schools and Libraries
The National Endowment for the Humanities' Picturing America is a free educational resource that helps teach American history and culture by bringing some of America's greatest works of art directly to classrooms and libraries. In June, the NEH awarded Picturing America to more than 26,000 schools and public libraries
across the United States.
At no cost, recipients will receive a set of large, high-quality reproductions of 40 pieces of great American art and an illustrated teachers resource book with information about the artists and artwork and lesson ideas for all grade levels to facilitate the use of the reproductions in
core subject areas.
Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country's history and character through the study and understanding of its art.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Complete an art exchange with an overseas partner school through our Classroom Connections program and compare cultural indicators in both sets of art.
Deadline: November 14, 2008 (Letter of Intent to Apply)
For: US Public High School Art Teachers
The Surdna Foundation has announced the
ninth year of the Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program, a national initiative to support the artistic revitalization of outstanding arts teachers in public arts high schools.
Participating teachers will design individualized courses of study that will provide both immersion in their own creative work and the opportunity to interact with other professional artists
in their fields. The fellowship program will award twenty grants of up to $5,500 each, with a complementary grant of $1,500 to the fellow's school to support post-fellowship activities.
Deadline: Ongoing
For: International Schools
The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people buy one of the nonprofit's rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country. OLPC's mission is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child.
Deadline: October 17, 2008
The purpose of this program is to encourage art museums to reach out to large numbers of people of all ages and backgrounds through imaginative programs and/or exhibits that help us understand and appreciate each other and our world. Individual grants will not exceed $100,000 and will vary in amount depending on the nature and
scope of the proposed project. Collaboration and partnership with other organizations is a plus.
Art museums in the United States that have been in existence for at least five years; possess 501(c)(3) status; and are located in either Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, or Wisconsin are eligible to apply.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Partner with your local art museum to plan an international art exhibit featuring student artwork. Arrange with OWC for Classroom Connections art exchanges between all of the schools in your school district and partner schools in various world regions. Display the artwork, photos and information you receive from around the world.
Deadline: Ongoing
For: US K-12 Public Schools
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation, International Paper and the International Paper Foundation, and National Geographic Explorer classroom magazine have announced an Outdoor Classroom Grant Program to fund outdoor learning environments for K-12 public schools around the United States.
Outdoor classrooms provide students with the hands-on opportunity to learn about natural resources through science education. Ranging from flower, vegetable, and butterfly gardens to small ponds, nature trails, or bird sanctuaries, outdoor classrooms can vary in complexity based on a school's available resources. More elaborate outdoor learning environments may include a laboratory for testing water and soil quality, a greenhouse, wetlands, an arboretum, or a shelter.
This school year, the Outdoor Classroom Grant Program will award grants up to $2,000 to at least one hundred schools. In some cases, grants for up to $20,000 may be awarded to schools or school districts with major outdoor classroom projects. The grants can be used to build a new outdoor classroom or to enhance a current outdoor classroom at the school.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Work with overseas partner schools in various world regions through our Classroom Connections program to compare and contrast environmental issues and circumstances; and organize collaborative outdoor studies.
Lexus and Scholastic Environmental Challenge
Deadline: Varies
For: US High Schools
An education program and contest about the environment that empowers teens to create a better world. Grants and scholarships of up to $75,000 will be awarded to teams of five to ten middle or high school students and one teacher-advisor working to address an environmental issue.
How to connect this resource with OneWorld Classrooms: Work with overseas partner schools in various world regions through our Classroom Connections program to compare and contrast environmental issues and circumstances; and collaborate to generate solutions.
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