Grants for Week of May 28 to June 3 (edit this)
Hope that you had a wonderful three day weekend and are ready for the last stretch of school! Soon, end of the year will upon us!!
After three days of trying, we at John Muir ES were finally able to post our first grant on DonorsChoice. Check it out-it’s under “Future Grandmasters of the World!”
1. Share Our Strength - Great American Bake Sale Grants program, 1730 M St., NW, Washington, DC 20036, (800) 761-4227, bakesale@strength.org
Application Deadline: July 13, 2007
Amount: $5000 to $15,000 each
Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit organizations; schools with a valid NCES code; and local government entities that work to ensure children have access to after school and summer meal programs.
Focus of Interest: Grants will be offered to organizations in two separate categories: organizations that directly sponsor USDA-reimbursed after school and/or summer meal programs for children; and organizations that work to increase participation in USDA-reimbursed after school and summer meal programs through outreach and advocacy. Funding helps ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical times when they are out of school and particularly vulnerable to hunger.
More info: http://gabs.strength.org/site/PageServer?pagename=GABS_grants
2. The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation - 2007 Emerging Composers Awards Program (California), Attn: Olivia Malabuyo, Program Assistant
111 Pine St., Suite 1515, San Francisco, CA 94111, (415) 391-0911, Fax: (415) 391-4587, info@gerbode.org
Application Deadline: August 24, 2007
Application: $50,000 each (six awards)
Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit, professionally-oriented musical organizations and presenters that are based in the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Contra Costa, San Mateo, or Santa Clara.
Focus of Interest: Grants support the creation and production of major contemporary musical compositions by up and coming California composers, age 35 and younger. These works are to be commissioned and premiered by nonprofit Bay Area music and multi-discipline arts presenting organizations. The goals of this program are: to encourage the creative endeavors and professional development of gifted, younger California composers; to assist Bay Area musical and multi-discipline arts presenting organizations in their efforts to commission, develop and premiere promising new works by contemporary California composers of great merit; and to stimulate additional awareness and appreciation of accomplished, inventive contemporary music in the Bay Area and elsewhere.
More info: http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/gerbode/
3. Toshiba American Foundation - Grants Program for 7-12 Science and Math Education (national), Attn: Program Office, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 41st Floor, New York, NY 10020, (212) 596-0620, foundation@tai.toshiba.com
Application Deadline:
Rolling - proposals for $5000 or less
August 1, 2007 - proposals for $5000 or more
Award Amount: $5000 +
Eligible Applicants: U.S. nonprofit organizations; private school districts and public/state-controlled school districts.
Focus of Interest: The foundation is dedicated to supporting science and mathematics education in the United States. For this funding program the foundation encourages projects with potential for improving classroom teaching and learning in science and mathematics. Funding will support projects planned and led by individual teachers or teams of teachers for their own classrooms. Previous grant recipients have designed projects that have tapped into the natural curiosity of their students, have enabled students to frame their own scientific questions, and have incorporated the expertise of community partners.
More info: http://www.toshiba.com/tafpub/upload/page/100045/25964_Executive.pdf
4. U.S. Dept of Education - Smaller Learning Communities (SLCs) Program
Application Deadline: July 17, 2007
Award Amount: $86.3 million (45 awards)
Eligible Applicants: Local educational agencies (LEAs); and educational service agencies and schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).
Focus of Interest: Funding supports discretionary grants allocated to local educational agencies to support the implementation of SLCs and activities to improve student academic achievement in large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students. SLCs include structures such as freshman academies, multi-grade 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, as well as personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs.
More info: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/07-2477.htm