Jordan Fundamentals Public School Grant Program
Founded by Michael Jordan, the Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program recognizes outstanding teaching and instructional creativity in public schools that serve economically disadvantaged students. The program is presented by the Jordan Brand, a division of Nike, Inc., and administered by Scholarship America (www.scholarshipamerica.org).
Applicants to the program must be public school teachers or paraprofessionals working with students in grades one through twelve and be employed by an accredited public school where at least 50 percent of the school's student population is eligible for the free or reduced school lunch program.
Applicants must develop an original lesson plan or thematic unit (a series of lessons with related learning objectives united by a common theme) that demonstrates high expectations for students. Applicants are encouraged to involve students in the development of this plan or unit. The plan or unit should not be derived from any commercial package.
A minimum of 200 small grants, averaging $2500 will be awarded to individual teachers, to support the development of more effective approaches or more effective implementation of traditional strategies to engage students and foster improved outcomes.
Medium-sized grants, averaging $10,000 may be awarded to teams of teachers to support scaling-up the implementation of approaches developed with Innovation Grants that hold promise for scalability and being replicated. Multi-year funding for Inspiration Grants will require evidence of sustainability.
> www.nike.com/jumpman23/features/fundamentals/guidelines.html
MetLife Foundation Bridge Builders Grant
MetLife Foundation Bridge Builders Grant Program and The National Association of Secondary School Principals is inviting proposals from public middle level and high schools serving large numbers of low-income students and/or underrepresented minorities (40% or more of the student body) to apply for a grant to implement a special initiative aimed at building better relationships among adults and students. Maximum Award: $5,000. Eligibility: Middle level and high school principals in public schools serving large numbers of low income and/or large numbers of minority students (more than 40% of the student body) in the United States.
> www.principals.org/s_nassp/sec.asp?CID=568&DID=48228
NCUST Award Excellent Urban Schools
National Center for Urban School Transformation Excellence in Education Award Criteria
The NCUST Excellence in Education Award was established exclusively to recognize public schools or public charter schools serving urban communities. To help urban school districts and their partners transform urban schools into places where all students achieve academic proficiency, evidence a love of learning, and graduate well prepared to succeed in post-secondary education, the workplace, and their communities.
Eligibility Criteria: The district where the school is located must serve a city with a population of at least 50,000. At least 50 percent of the school's students must meet the eligibility criteria for the federal free- or reduced-price lunch program. Secondary schools, however, may be considered if at least 50 percent of the students meet the federal criteria in two-thirds of the elementary schools that feed into the secondary school. To be considered for an Excellence in Education Award, a school may not have any selective admissions criteria. A school must have met AYP performance goals for all student subgroups for the previous two academic years.
> edweb.sdsu.edu/ncust/awards/criteria.html
Staples Foundation for Learning
The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth.
> www.staplesfoundation.org/foundapplication.html
Casey Foundation (Annie E.) Support For Public Education
With a mission and history rooted in an ambitious vision of building better futures for disadvantaged children, the Casey Foundation’s approach to philanthropy has always embraced more than giving grants to achieve our goals.
We use our resources to partner with and forge collaborations among institutions, agencies, decision makers, and community leaders so they can work together to transform tough places to raise families. We fund research, technical assistance, and multi-site demonstrations that help service and support systems like public schools, juvenile justice agencies, and child welfare systems get better results for kids and families. We directly deliver exemplary services, identify and measure what works, and share lessons learned to demonstrate the potential of reforming public policies and services on behalf of children and their families.
No one single investment approach can fully meet the needs nor truly make a lasting difference in the lives of the significant numbers of vulnerable children and families encompassed by Casey's mission.
However, taken as a whole, these approaches to philanthropy and "change-making" help increase our positive impact on the populations we care about most; expand our influence with key audiences; and maximize our ability to leverage even more resources for the kids, families, and communities at the heart of our mission.
> www.aecf.org/AboutUs/GrantInformation.aspx
The Janus Foundation
The Janus Foundation accepts grant applications from nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. for the first two giving categories:
- At-risk youth through education
- Community service and volunteerism
Grants will be made to organizations and programs that are considered innovative and visionary, and that have a long lasting impact, ultimately leading their constituents to self-sufficiency. The foundation prefers to support specific programs rather than general operating funds and capital campaigns. Applicants should have clearly defined goals and anticipated outcomes and be able to demonstrate the success of their programs through quantitative and qualitative evaluations. An organization may submit only one grant proposal per calendar year.
All grant proposals must be submitted to: The Janus Foundation, 151 Detroit Street, Denver, CO 80206
Contact Person: Tracy Contact
Phone: 303-333-3863
Contact Email: janusfoundation@janus.com
Jack Kent Cooke Founcation Grant for Enrichment Programs
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation seeks nonprofit providers of accelerated learning or academic enrichment programs for grants of between $100,000 and $600,000 total over a three-year period. The objective of the grants is to increase access to accelerated learning and enrichment programs for low- to moderate-income students ages 5 through 12 who have exceptional academic promise.
Proposals for these grants are being solicited by invitation only. If you have not received an invitation and you wish to apply for this grant, the Foundation requires that you first submit a letter of interest and receive an invitation. Unsolicited applications will not be accepted.
Your letter of interest should be 1-3 pages in length in standard business letter format, and should include the following:
- A brief overview and history of your organization
- A description of the design and results of the program for which you seek funding
- Evidence that your program explicitly benefits low- to moderate-income students with exceptional academic promise.
> www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/content.aspx?page=9861879
Read Across America Library Books Awards
The NEA Foundation Award Helps Libraries Purchase Books. The NEA Foundation is providing a new award to help public schools serving economically disadvantaged students purchase books for school libraries.
The Foundation makes these $5,000 awards to practicing pre K-12 teachers and education support professionals who are NEA members on behalf of NEA, with support from Warner Brothers, Inc.
Visit www.neafoundation.org for more information and an application. Applications will be accepted only as e-mail attachments.
Improving Literacy Through School Libraries
This program helps LEAs improve reading achievement by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped, technologically advanced school library media centers; and professionally certified school library media specialists.
Who May Apply: (specifically) Local education agencies (LEAs) in which at least 20 percent of students served are from families with incomes below the poverty line may apply. Outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are eligible for funds under a set-aside.
> www.ed.gov/programs/lsl/index.html
Striving Readers Program
U.S. Department of Education Local education agencies with one or more schools that are eligible to receive Title I funds and serve students in grades 6-12
Striving Readers is a new grant program from the U.S. Department of Education that will support the implementation and evaluation of research-based reading interventions for struggling middle and high school readers in Title I eligible schools that have significant percentages or numbers of students reading below grade level. The Striving Readers Program aims to enhance the overall level of reading achievement in middle and high schools through improvements to the quality of literacy instruction across the curriculum; improve the literacy skills of struggling adolescent readers; and help build a strong, scientific research base around specific strategies that improve adolescent literacy skills.
The goals of this program are to:
- Raise student achievement in middle and high schools by improving the literacy skills of struggling adolescent readers
- Help build a strong, scientific research base around specific strategies that improve adolescent literacy skills.
TYPES OF PROJECTS
Striving Reader programs include each of three key components:
- supplemental literacy interventions targeted to students who are reading significantly below grade level;
- cross-disciplinary strategies for improving student literacy, which may include professional development for subject matter teachers and use of research-based reading and comprehension strategies in classrooms across subject areas; and
- a strong experimental evaluation component.
> www.ed.gov/programs/strivingreaders/index.html
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