Ameriquest Mortgage Company Create Your Legacy grant program encourages young people to develop projects to improve their after-school program and neighborhood. Maximum Award: $15,000. Eligibility: after-school programs with 501(c)(3) status offering youth services that emphasize leadership training, mentoring, community service, academic enrichment, or the arts. Deadline: January 15, 2007..
Getting Girls to Increase Exercise and Physical Activity
Women's Sports Foundation GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards inspire teams to help fight the disturbing physical and psychological health risks affecting America's inactive youth. Teams must lead their own team project that will get girls in their communities physically active and submit a detailed essay or a VHS, DVD or CD-ROM telling about the project. Maximum Award: $2,500. Eligibility: School, amateur, community and/or nonprofit affiliated teams whose members are female, enrolled in 9th-12th grade and residents of the United States. Deadline: February 16, 2007..
The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation New Voices Community News Grants help fund the start-up of 40 micro-local, news projects and support them with two educational Web sites. Maximum Award: $17,000. Eligibility: 501(c) 3 organizations and education institutions, including civic groups, community organizations, public broadcasters, schools, colleges and universities. Deadline: February 20, 2007.
The American Library Association Public Programs Office and the American Association of School Librarians Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming recognizes a school library that has conducted an exemplary program or program series in the humanities. Maximum Award: $4000. Eligibility: elementary or middle school (public or private) libraries, or any school library program that serves children in any combination of grades K-8, that have conducted a humanities program or program series during the previous school year. Deadline: February 28, 2007..
The Afterschool Alliance provides information such as a downloadable "Sustainability Workbook," sustainability plan worksheets, funding tips, publications and links created by the organizations identifying funding streams that match your needs.
The Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance provides a list of grants in specific areas such as character education, after school, community arts, environment, health, technology, and youth led initiatives.
NASA Spacelink Urban and Rural Community Enrichment Program
NASA Spacelink Urban and Rural Community Enrichment Program is for grades 5-8. NASA URCEP specialists train core educators, as a team, to conduct interdisciplinary aerospace activities in school districts. Major activities include lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on classroom activities that supplement the ongoing curriculum. Eligibility: Teachers of middle school students from rural and urban communities.
Hasbro Children Foundation explains grants to support the development and/or expansion of programs for children. Maximum award: $500-$35,000. Programs must provide direct services to children under age thirteen. They must serve children and families who are economically disadvantaged. Programs must be innovative and provide a model from which others can learn.
The Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation Program for Childhood Language Disorders
The Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation Program for Childhood Language Disorders funds projects that have broad implications for the learning and use of spoken language in children with developmental language disorders. Maximum award: $20,000. Eligibility: Hospitals, universities, or public schools.
The Melody Program of the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
The Melody Program of the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation is designed to provide musical instruments and instrument repairs to existing K-12 school music programs. Eligibility: Schools that meet the requirements outlined on the website. Maximum award: $500-$5,000.
Prudential Foundation Ready to Learn Program supports education reform efforts that strengthen public education at the elementary school level: systemic school reform; improving the quality of teachers, principals and other school leaders, and arts education; early childhood care and education initiatives, and strategies to improve literacy that address professional development for teachers, family literacy programs or literacy in the early years. Maximum award: $25,000-$1 million. Eligibility: Public education at the elementary school level.
