Funding Your Technology Dreams

Below is a compilation of resources which will be helpful to organizations, groups, and individuals looking to fund their dreams. These sites can lead you to other useful sites as you search the web for the funding source to meet the needs of your school and students.

GuideStar - This site offers information about more than 700,000 IRS-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.

Foundations Online - Foundations Online is a directory of 100's of foundations and grantmakers. It is a must site that all grant seekers should visit!.

PBS Teacher Source - An up to date site on grants and conferences that are available in most curricula areas. It is sponsored by the PBS and is an excellent resource for grants and classroom instruction.

Teacher Universe - A marvelous site for finding grant sources, research, and integrating technology into the curriculum. A must visit for all grant writers.

eFunding Solutions - this site is dedicated to helping educators locate every funding source available to them in the United States.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - This site provides links to a miriad of grant sites. It also provides valuable resources for teachers and grant seekers.

LTP Education Resources - This site concentrates its focus on grant opportunities in the area of math and science. It is updated on a regular basis and should be regularly visited by grant seekers.

Teach America - Teach America, a program of the Gateway Foundation, seeks to provide teachers with the skills and knowledge they need to enhance learning through the effective use of technology by providing training grants.

Columbia Education Center - Non-governmental funding sources for northwest education.

Netschools - a valuable resource for teachers which includes such topics as: e-rate funding, federal funding initiatives, grants, and professional development opportunities.

Grantsmanship Center - the world's leader in grant information and grantmanship training.

Scientific Learning - a link to state departments of education where grant seekers will find funding sources specific to their state.

The Foundation Center - The "Gateway" to philanthropy on the World Wide Wed, this site offers online assistance with locating foundations and proposal writing. It has an extensive list of links which can be tailored to meet the needs of grant seekers.

Grantwriters.com - a unique website for grant and proposal writers including training, free information about grant opportunities, and other services.

GrantsNet - an electronic roadmap for grants provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Awesome Library - The Awesome Library is a valuable resource for educators which includes: grant writing information, resources, lesson plans, and a miriad of other topics important to teachers and administrators.

Teacher Vision - Teacher Vision provides step-by-step guidance in writing grants, forming business partnerships, and locating funding sources for classroom programs. At the home page select "Teacher Resources" and then select "Educational Funding."

School Grants - School Grants is an excellent site with links to various grant sites and other valuable resources for grant seeksers.

Grant Getting Page - The Grant Getting Page is jam packed with hyperlinks to grant giving agencies and private foundations.

George Lucas Foundation - Although not a source for funding, this sites contains a myriad of sites and sources of information about grants.

Environmental Education on the Internet - A resource for finding grant opportunities whose major component is environmental education.

E School News - A comprehensive source for school technology funding. This website provides access to grant opportunities, recent grant awards, equipment donations, and a 1999-2000 Technology Funding Directory.

Sea Coast Grant Writing Guide - Sea Coast provides a 10-point plan for standard grant writing as well as links to grantmakers. It is an excellent tutorial.

Morris Catholic High School Grant Center - An excellent site with links to other grant sites and other useful information. It also contains a link to individual states with links local agencies and foundations providing grants.

Government Discretionary Grants - This site is a compilation of all federal grants, a description of the grant, requirements with filing deadlines, electronic filing forms, and the home page for each of the grants listed.

Growth Initiatives for Teachers - The GTE Gift Program encourages innovative math and science teaching by annually providing 120 outstanding educators with funds for professional development activities and hands-on classroom projects.

Community Resource Institute - This site includes links to many different sites which provide funding for a variety of programs and organizations.

The Council on Foundations - The Council works to support foundations by promoting knowledge, growth, and action in philantrophy. It contains links to current grant opportunities.

Helping.Org - This site contains a collection of sources of support for nonprofit organizations.

The ICONnect Mini Grants - This is the site for ICONnect Mini Grants and award five $1,000 mini grants each year for curriculum units which encourage the use of the internet.

The Coca-Cola Foundation - the foundation aims to provide youth with the educational opportunities and support systems they need to become knowledgeable about the world in which they live and better able to give back to their communities.

The Texaco Foundation - the Texaco Foundation aims to identify the highest quality programs that prepare children for the study of math and science.

Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy - The goal of the national grant program is to develop and expand family literacy efforts nationwide, and to support development of literacy programs that build families of readers.

Garth Brook's Touch'em All Foundation - The Touch'em All Foundation accepts proposals from nonprofit organizations that specialize in working with children. Grants from the foundation support on-going work of operating organizations that help needy children in the areas of health, education and inner-city services. The foundation's giving cycle is semi-annual.

FamilyPC Teachers' Technology Grant - The Teachers' Technology Foundation awards grants of up to $2,500 each in recognizing outstanding ideas that implement technology into the classroom.

eBay Foundation - the eBay Foundation funds projects which utilize technology to empower individuals particularly programs which integrate the use of the internet.

Educational Ventures International Foundation - this foundation provides grants for: funding for hardware, educational resources, innovative uses of technology, and research projects in mathematics and technology education.

Agrilink Foods/Pro-Fac Foundation - this foundation provides grants to not-for-profit organizations operating in communities where Agrilink Foods has facilitie, or where Pro-Fac members are located. Primary giving areas include health, community services, education.

Employment Management Association Foundation - this $5,000 award encourages and recognizes collaborations between businesses and schools that strengthen the connection between academics and workplace application.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation - this foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following broad program areas: conservation; population; science; children, families, and communities; arts; and organizational effectiveness and philanthropy.

Polaris Grants Central - Polaris specializes in organizational grant programs working with schools to get funding for curriculum development. Polaris also provides step-by-step, how-to instruction and training in grant acquisition. Online advice is also available on their web site.

The Ambrose Monell Foundation

The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation

AAUW Educational Fellowships and Grants - Community action grants provide seed money to individual women, AAUW branches and AAUW state organizations as well as local community based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or non-degree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - The Gates family have formed a foundation which will allocate $350 million in grants to improve education and the use of technology in the curriculum.

NCTM Met Awards, Grants and Scholarships - NCTM Met Awards, Grants, and Scholarships Available! The Mathematics Education Trust (MET) was established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) to fund special projects that enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics.

J.C. Downing Foundation - the foundation supports innovative efforts and original projects that offer far-reaching gains and widespread results. The grants are given to qualified nonprofit organizations with explicit, identifiable needs - often funding the early stages of a project's development.

The Gateway Foundation - The Gateway Foundation has launched a grant program that aims to provide 75,000 teachers with online computer training during the next five years. The program is called Teach America and is designed to give educators critical skills and proficiency to help them realize the full benefits of technology.

Ford Foundation - The Ford Foundation seeks to enhance educational opportunities especially for low income and chronically disadvantaged groups. The site also contains a grant database and guidelines for grant seekers.

The Intel Foundation - the Intel Foundation funds programs which advance math, science and engineering education, promote women and under-represented minorities entering science and engineering careers, and increasing public understanding of technology and its impact on contemporary life.

Radioshack National Teachers Awards Program - the Radioshack National Teacher Awards Program is committed to educational excellence in mathematics, science and technology.

Cisco Systems Virtual Schoolhouse Grant Program - Cisco Systems provide one time awards of approximately $10,000 in networking product, service and training to K-12 schools for curriculum-based internet conncections.

Waksman Foundation for Microbiology - the foundation's purpose is to promote, encourage, and aid scientific research in microbiology; to provide and assist in providing funds and facilities by which scientific discoveries, inventions, and processes in microbiology may be developed.

International Technology Education Association - ITEA is a professional association for technology educators and the Grants/Scholarships/Awards section provides information on support programs offered by the Foundation for Technology Education and ITEA (opportunities are available for ITEA members only).

NEC Foundation of America - This Foundation gives grants to those organizations and programs with a national reach and impact in science and technology education, principally at the secondary level, or technology used to assist people with disabilities.

Sun Microsystems Foundation Open Gateway Grants Program - Sun provides hardware and software grants, training and technical support to assist schools, particularly in economically disadvantaged communities, in making the transition to network computing.

America Online Foundation - The AOL Foundation has as its mission the use of technology to benefit society, improve the lives of familiesand children, and empower the disadvantaged.

Toyota USA Foundation - The Foundation offers grants which increase the productivity of students and/or educators primarily in the areas of science and math. Applications are reviewed continually (no deadline).

Computers for Learning - This program donates surplus federal computer equipment to schools and educational non-profits, giving special consideration to those with the greatest need.

Detwiler Foundation - The Foundation accepts, repairs and places donated computer equipment into K-12 schools in 22 states. Their goal is to have a national students-to-computers to one computer for every five students.

National Computer Recycling Programs - A state, national, and international directory of agencies that facilitate donations of used computer hardware for schools and community groups.

Gifts in Kind International - Each year companies contribute newly manufactured products through Gifts in Kind International to a network of over 50,000 charities around the world.

The Gateway - The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet.

Grant Writing Tutorial - This sites provides a tutorial for grant writing including an excellent Mock Grant Writing Activity.

U.S. Department of Education Resource Guide - This site provides a resource guide to federal funding for technology in education.

Eric Clearing House on Information and Technology - Speacializing in educational technology and library information.

Rand Education Research Center - The Research Center for Education specializes in K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform evaluation, and teachers and teaching.

CEO Forum on Education & Technology - Assisting schools access their level of technology readiness.

Milken Family Foundation for Education Technology - The foundation is committed to strengthening the profession by recognizing and rewarding outstanding educators and by expanding their professional leadership and policy influence.

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education - The Association is an international, educational, and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology.

National Center for Education Statistics - NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations (the most reliable data for grants).

International Society for Technology in Education - The mission of ISTE is to help classroom teachers K-12 and administrators share effective methods for enhancing student learning through the use of new classroom technologies.

Basic Elements of Grant Writing - This sites provides a guide to grant writing and includes suggestions for preparing the RFP.

International Society for Technology in Education/Standards - ISTE has established standards for the effective use of information technology in education.

K-12 Standards - A comprehensive annotated list of internet sites with K-12 educational standards.

National Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching - NPEAT engages in research-based collaborative action to ensure teaching excellence to raise student performance.

Northwest Regional Education Lab - This site constructed by the Northest Regional Education Lab contains an extensive list of standards in a variety of subject areas.

Scholastic Magazine/Electronic Learning - Electronic Learning, a pull-out of, but also distributed separately from Instructor Magazine, focuses on the use of technology in the classroom.

MultiMedia Schools - This print magaizne published five times a year addresses multiple technologies used in K-12 schools today. Selected full text in available online, which includes a NewsWatch section, which posts technology related funding news and links.

Technology & Learning Online - This is the online version of the print magazine contains a Grants and Contests section with a searchable database of regularly updated grant, scholarship, professional development aand other funding opportunities for both students and educators.

Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Survey - This publication includes a chapter on the use and effectiveness of educational technology.

Mid-Continental Regional Educational Labratory - This comprehensive site contains surveys, bibliographies, articles, reports, case studeies, and more resources addressing the question of whether technology impacts student achievement.

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Books

The Teacher's Guide to Writing Grants by David G. Bauer

Grant Writing for Teachers: If You Can Write a Lesson Plan You Can Write a Grant by Linda Karges-Bone

For more infromation regarding Grant Writing contact:Glenn Johnson at Glenn1231@AOL.Com.

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