Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

The goal of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's National Grant Program is to develop and expand family literacy efforts nationwide and to support the development of literacy programs that build families of readers. Approximately 10 grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded. 

Eligible applicants must include all of the following components in their proposals: reading instruction for parents or primary caregivers, literacy or pre-literacy instruction for children, and intergenerational activities where the parents and children learn and read together. 

Applications for each grant cycle are available in early July. To be placed on their mailing list, email your mailing address to plimjap@cfncr.org. The application will also be available to download on the Foundation's Web site in July.

The Braitmayer Foundation

The Braitmayer Foundation supports K-12 education throughout the United States. Of particular interest are:

		Curricular and school reform initiatives;
		Preparation of and professional development opportunities for teachers, particularly those that encourage people of high ability and diverse background to enter and remain in K-12 teaching.

The Foundation is pleased to have its grants used as seed money, challenge grants, or to match other grants to the recipient organizations. The Foundation does not make grants to individuals, multi year grants, nor grants for endowment purposes or building programs. 

Grants up to $35,000 are due to the Foundation's offices by June 30.  Grants of up to $10,000 are due by June 30 or November 15.

Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program

The Jordan Fundamentals Grants are awarded to teachers or paraprofessionals who work with students in grades from six (6) through twelve (12) in a U.S. public school who also demonstrate instructional creativity and exemplify high learning expectations for economically disadvantaged students. At least 40% of the school's student population must be eligible for the free or reduced school lunch program.

Applicants must develop an original lesson plan or thematic unit. Unique teaching methods and projects are encouraged. The grants fund resource materials, supplies, equipment, transportation, or other costs related to field trips.

The National School and Business Partnerships Award

Created by The Council for Corporate & School Partnerships, The National School and Business Partnerships Award will recognize exemplary partnerships between schools and businesses (such as Great Source). Partnerships involving kindergarten through 12th grade public schools and/or school districts and businesses are eligible to apply for the award.

Applicants for the award will be judged on a number of criteria, including:

		The strength of the partnership's foundation, as evidenced by shared values, and the school and business partner's ability to define mutually beneficial goals;
		The success of the partnership's implementation, as evidenced by such factors as the management process and determination of specific, measurable outcomes;
		The partnership's sustainability, based on such factors as support by school and business leaders and by teachers, employees, students and other constituents; and
		The partners' ability to present a clear evaluation of the partnership's impact, as measured by evidence that the partnership was developed with clear definitions of success for all parties, and that it has resulted in improvements of the academic, social or physical well-being of students.
		Judges may also consider the uniqueness of the partnership and the value of third-party support of the partnership.

The Council will present six awards in the inaugural year. Those selected for the award will receive national recognition and the schools or districts will receive $10,000 to support partnership efforts.

American Honda Foundation

The American Honda Foundation supports projects with a focus on math, science, the environment, and technology.  The Foundation also supports youth job training programs. Grants typically range from about $10,000 to $75,000. For grant guidelines, schools should send a self-addressed stamped envelope to:  American Honda Foundation, P. O. Box 2205, Torrance, CA  90509-2205.  Applications should be mailed to meet deadlines of February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1.  Note: If the AHF staff receives preliminary proposals a month before the deadline, they can provide feedback in time for applicants to make changes and still meet the deadline.

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation will dedicate a major part of its grant funds over the next few years to education reform, specifically urban high school redesign, with an emphasis on adolescent literacy and the preparation of teachers who are on the front lines of that reform.  The foundation does not review requests from individual schools or preschools.

Citigroup Foundation

Under its Educating the Next Generation initiative, Citigroup Foundation seeks to improve educational opportunities in low-income communities that will better prepare the next generation for life-long learning and the workforce. In early childhood and primary and secondary education, grants support early literacy development, technology-based curriculum resources, and career and college preparation programs. The Foundation also provides grants for teacher training and innovative teaching strategies that increase student achievement.  The Foundation also provides scholarships to increase access to higher education and to provide more opportunities for women and minorities in the workplace.

Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

The Foundations support secondary education programs, primarily those that address innovative professional development programs that strengthen teachers and their teaching in grades 9-12.  The Foundations are particularly interested in programs that involve sustained partnerships between faculties of colleges and school districts or collaborative efforts involving reform organizations, colleges/ universities and high schools.

Special consideration will be given to projects in their early stages that address the concerns and problems of secondary education on a national level. Therefore, proposals should strive to develop solutions with potential for wide application or replication. 

Proposals under this program will be accepted from institutions endeavoring to improve secondary education and must be signed by the head of the institution or organization. Institutions eligible for funding in this program area include, but are not limited to, public as well as private universities and colleges, graduate schools of education and free-standing educational research institutes. Only in exceptional cases will proposals be accepted directly from individual private or public schools or school districts.

Grants made in this program area will range from $100,000 to $150,000.

NEA Foundation’s Innovation Grant

Innovation Grants provide an opportunity for two or more teachers, education support personnel, and higher education faculty to develop and implement innovations that significantly improve student learning. The grant amount is $2,000 and the NEA Foundation will award up to 200 grants per year. Grant funds may be used for resource materials, supplies, equipment, transportation, software, and professional fees. The funds may also be used for professional development necessary to implement the innovative idea.  Applications may be submitted at any time.