Grant & Funding Opportunities Winter 2006
Show Me the Money:
Tips & Resources for Successful Grant Writing - Many educators
have found that outside funding, in the form of grants, allows them to
provide their students with educational experiences and materials
their own districts can't afford. Learn how they get those grants --
and how you can get one too. Included: Practical tips to help
first-time grant writers get the grants they need.
Resource:
GrantsAlert
is a website that helps nonprofits, especially those involved
in education, secure the funds they need to continue their
important work.
Resource:
Grantionary - The Grantionary is a list of grant-related terms
and their definitions.
Would you like to share funding ideas and resources with
others? Subscribe
to our
MichiganGrantWriters group by sending
a blank email to:
MichiganGrantWriters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
 Fundraising
Ideas - Sales
Mott
Foundation Continues Support for Afterschool Programming
The Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan, has awarded a four-year, $3.6 million grant
to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the impacts and best practices
of afterschool programs, particularly those that focus on underserved
populations.
Proposal
Writing 101: The subject of this
short course is proposal writing. But the proposal does not stand
alone. It must be part of a process of planning and of research on,
outreach to, and cultivation of potential foundation and corporate
donors.
Establishing a Nonprofit Organization
Information on Grant Writing, Grant Seeking and Fundraising
Grant Writing Tips - SchoolGrants has compiled an
excellent set of grant writing tips for those
that need help in developing grant proposals.
Visit
the Foundation
Center Online -
http://fdncenter.org/
GRANT
AND FUNDING INFORMATION from
www.PublicEducation.org
"Women's Sports
Foundation" - The Women's Sports Foundation is
accepting applications for its grant programs
helping girls and women. The Community Action Programs are
grassroots organizations that encourage
local communities to support and celebrate
participation of girls and women in sports and fitness.
"CAPs" recognize female athletes,
coaches, businesses, and volunteers who support
girls' and women's opportunities, and undertake
other activities in support of women's sports
and athletics. Application deadline: ongoing.
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/comm/index.html
"FastWEB"
- FastWEB is the largest online scholarship search available, with
600,000 scholarships
representing over one billion in scholarship dollars. It
provides students with accurate, regularly updated
information on scholarships, grants, and
fellowships suited to their goals and
qualifications, all at no cost to the student.
Students should be advised that FastWEB collects
and sells student information (such as name,
address, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, and country of
citizenship) collected through their site.
http://www.fastweb.com/
"Federal Resources
for Educational Excellence (FREE)" - More than
30 Federal agencies formed a working group in
1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported
teaching and learning resources easier to find.
The result of that work is the FREE website.
http://www.ed.gov/free/
"Fundsnet Online
Services" - A comprehensive website dedicated to
providing nonprofit organizations, colleges, and
Universities with information on financial resources
available on the Internet.
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/
"Department of Education Forecast of Funding"
- This document lists virtually all programs and competitions
under which the Department of Education
has invited or expects to invite applications
for new awards for FY 2002 and provides actual
or estimated deadline dates for the transmittal
of applications under these programs. The lists
are in the form of charts -- organized according
to the Department's principal program
offices -- and include programs and competitions the Department
has previously announced, as well as those
it plans to announce at a later date.
Note: This document is advisory only and is not an official
application notice of the Department of
Education.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCFO/grants/forecast.html
"eSchool News
School Funding Center" - Information on
up-to-the-minute grant programs, funding sources, and
technology funding.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/funding/
"Philanthropy News Digest-K-12 Funding
Opportunities" - K-12 Funding
opportunities with links to grantseeking for teachers,
learning technology, and more.
http://fdncenter.org/funders/
"School Grants" - A
collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and
obtain special grants for a variety of
projects.
http://www.schoolgrants.org
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Free Fundraising Ideas - Visit
FundraisingDeals.com for some great free fundraising ideas that will help
you raise money for your group or organization.
School-Fundraisers is
a central fundraising source for all types of school groups. No matter
what your fundraising goals and objectives are, we have a fundraising
program that will work for you. We work with elementary schools, middle
schools, high schools and even colleges. From school bands to sports teams
to academic clubs!
Call4aCure
would like to offer parents of autistic children a way to help them pay
for the DAN protocol treatments for detoxifications, lab test, physical
therapy, speech therapy, bubbles, etc....Call4aCure thinks this is a great
fund raising idea that would generate a constant flow of contributions
each month.
Organizations are getting creative in their fundraising methods
(trading donated old cars for funds). Why not use phone service?
Click here to download the pdf flyer
on this program.
Cooking Made Easy
- Until now, there has been a gap in the cooking resources available for
people with developmental disabilities. Picture cookbooks have
assisted people who cannot read. Standard recipes are understood by
few. But there has been no resource available for the many people
who can read, but cannot understand standard recipe formats. (Terms
are confusing, steps are abbreviated or blended, instructions are not
detailed enough, etc.) Now, Cooking Made Easy fills that gap!
Using this cookbook, people who needed assistance cooking in the past can
now cook independently. Individual copies are $19.95 + S/H.
Discounts given for larger orders.
I was sent a copy of this cookbook for review and I absolutely loved it!
It was so nice to see just how simple it all was - step 1 is always "Wash
Hands." It is all in this book! JDI
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