SFC- November 21, 2006 Newsletter

SCHOOL FUNDING NEWSLETTER

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Our database is filled with every state, federal, and foundation grant available to your school. You have absolutely no need to buy any other product. We already monitor over 4,000 sources to compile our grant information.

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Our database contains over 110,000 grants worth over
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Quote of the Month
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If you study to remember, you will forget; but, if you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown

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Editorial
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Do you teach your kids to care for others? There's no time like the holiday season to get students involved in projects to help others. One of my favorites was to hold food drives for the local food banks. Students really got into this especially if we gave small prizes or had a party for the winning class. Even with these incentives, the focus was on helping those less fortunate.

Other than food, it's also a great time to share small toys, clothes, and even other necessities that some families need and will not have if others in the community do not step up and answer the challenge.

You are teaching students every day of the year. Sometimes in direct ways, sometimes in not so direct ways. If it's important to you to serve your community and those less fortunate, this attitude will be picked up by many of your students. And often, it lasts a lifetime.

You don't just teach your subject areas. You teach students, children. Help them to love and be responsible for their fellow human beings.

Don Peek
dpeek@schoolfundingcenter.com

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Feature Article
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Focusing on Foundation Grants

Thousands of foundations give billions of dollars to education each year. Sometimes this foundation money is not distributed simply because foundations don't get enough quality grant applications to give all the money away.

That's not usually the case with many well-known foundations, but it is true with foundations that are not in the public eye as much.

How does that impact you and your school? Instead of everyone trying to get Bill & Melinda Gates to give them money, they should be concentrating on the foundations that are not as popular and more closely match up with their schools' needs. It is extremely important to find a foundation with a strong emphasis that just happens to be the same emphasis you have at your school. That may be bringing up test scores for at-risk students, or it may be building a reading program that works equally well with all students, not just good students.

Even though more money is given to schools with high at-risk populations or more economically depressed populations, that is less true generally of foundation grants than federal or state grants.

Here's the problem. How do you find all these foundations and find out what their main mission is? If you search the Internet, you will find some of them. Newsletters often list a few foundation grants.

If you want all of the foundation grants that are significant, just subscribe to our database. We have them all.

However you happen to find the foundations, please consider applying to a few of them for grant funds. Find those that are less competitive. Give them a call and tell them what you are trying to accomplish and see if you can get them interested even before you submit your application.

Foundations give schools billions of dollars each year. Why shouldn't you get some of that money for your school?

Don Peek
dpeek@schoolfundingcenter.com

The School Funding Center's database at http://www.getresponse.com/t/7030983/370960/129343344/
will help you match your needs to the grants that are available. We include live links to e-mail and Web sites of
granting organizations whenever available.
Usually address, phone, and/or fax is included.

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Tips
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1. Apply for less popular grants worth less money. The
   competition for them is usually not as great.
2. Call foundations and talk to the people in charge. Often
   this can help when you apply for a grant.
3. Don't artificially match your needs to foundations. Find
   foundations that focus on the needs and problems you have.

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Q & A
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Q. Isn't this a bad time to be applying for grants?

A: Actually it's a good time. You may want money for a spring program or a summer school program. Many foundations have mid- to late-December filing deadlines that would allow you to write a couple of quick grants and get them in before the extended holiday season at your school.

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Grant Announcements
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Grant name: Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)

Funded by: National Science Foundation

Description: ITEST is designed to increase the opportunities for students and teachers to learn about, experience, and use information technologies within the context of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including Information Technology
(IT) courses. Supported projects are intended to provide opportunities for middle and high school children and teachers to build the skills and knowledge needed to advance their study, and to function and to contribute in a technologically rich society.

Program areas: After-school, math, science/environmental, technology

Recipients: Public school, higher education, other

Proposal deadline: 1/5/2007

Total amount: $20 million

Contact person: Sylvia James

Telephone: 703-292-5333

E-mail: sjames@nsf.gov

Website: http://www.getresponse.com/t/7030999/370960/129343344/

Availability: All states

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Our database is filled with every state, federal, and foundation grant available to your school. You have absolutely no need to buy any other product. We already monitor over 4,000 sources to compile our grant information.

We have grants for universities, colleges, K-12, and pre-K.

We have grants for public, charter, private, and faith- based schools.

Our database contains over 110,000 grants worth over
$6.5 billion.

To order, go to: http://www.getresponse.com/t/7030998/370960/129343344/

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Grant name: Classroom Grants

Funded by: Olympus America Inc. and Tool Factory Inc.

Description: Olympus America, Inc., in partnership with Tool Factory, Inc., is sponsoring a classroom grants program designed to strengthen education through digital imaging and the power of visual learning. Complete a one-page online application to win one of the ten classroom grants to be awarded. The application requires only basic information from the teacher, a description of the proposed project for which the grant will be used, and a budget for up to $500. Submitted entries can be edited online any time up until the deadlines. Winners will receive three (3) Olympus 5.0 megapixel digital cameras worth $600; a $500 cash award; Tool Factory software worth $2,000; and thirty (30) "Digital Camera Basics" workbooks worth $600. Total grant award is $3,700.

Program areas: Technology, all other

Recipients: Public school, private/charter school

Deadline: 1/5/2007

Total amount: $3,700

Telephone: 802-375-6549

E-mail: info@toolfactory.com

Website: http://www.getresponse.com/t/7031000/370960/129343344/

Availability: All states

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Grant name: Teacher Incentive Fund

Funded by: U.S. Department of Education

Description: The purpose of the Teacher Incentive Fund is to support programs that develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools.
The specific goals of the Teacher Incentive Fund include:
Improving student achievement by increasing teacher and principal effectiveness; reforming teacher and principal compensation systems so that teachers and principals are rewarded for increases in student achievement; increasing the number of effective teachers teaching poor, minority, and disadvantaged students in hard-to-staff subjects; and creating sustainable performance-based compensation systems

Program areas: At-risk/character, math, professional development,
reading, science/environmental, social studies, technology

Recipients: Public school, private/charter school, other

Deadline: Letter of intent must be received by 12/19/2006; final proposal is due 2/12/2007

Total amount: $43 million

Contact person: April Lee

Telephone: 202-205-5224

E-mail: tif@ed.gov

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Grant name: Classroom Grants

Funded by: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauts (AIAA)

Foundation

Description: These grants are available to supplement the math, science or technology curriculum for K-12 teachers nationwide.
Up to $200 per individual request is awarded, and each school is limited to up to $1,000 per calendar year.

Program areas: Math, science/environmental, technology

Recipients: Public school

Deadline: 12/30/3007

Average amount: Up to $1,000

Website: http://www.getresponse.com/t/7031002/370960/129343344/

Availability: All states

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dpeek@schoolfundingcenter.com

I look forward to hearing from you.

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