Grants For Schools
Are You Looking for Grants?
You’ve got great project ideas, but you need funding!
As great teachers who work resolutely to provide the best education for our students, we’re really busy. A mammoth hurdle to procuring grant funding is finding the time to research and prepare the applications. Here we provide some ideas to help with the research phase.
Grants of a General Nature
Find and apply for federal funding opportunities from 26 grant awarding agencies. Browse categories and use keywords to search. “How to” and grant writing basics are also found at this site.
STEM Supplies has a useful “STEM Funding Finder” where you can search for opportunities to obtain funds, by state.
STEM focused projects. Proposal requirements, timeline information, application process.
Targeting Project Based Learning in math or science instruction with measurable outcomes. $1000 grants are available with applications due Oct 1st each year.
Targeting Project Based Learning in math or science. Applications for less than $5000 are accepted year round, greater than $5000 deadlines Feb 1st and Aug 1st of each year.
STEM education kits-which we are not endorsing-but they also have information for educators. You will find Free STEM Resources and STEM Grants.
Public K-12 schools are encouraged to apply. A focus area is STEM education. Applications are accepted year-round.
Award winning, non-profit, PLTW is an engineering curriculum. PLTW provides grants for elementary, middle, and high schools to implement computer science, engineering, and biomedical science curriculum. Also professional development.
Teachers request funds, donors choose. Once fully funded, DonorsChoose ships the materials to the school. The donors receive photos of the project, a letter from you and your students, and accounting of how monies were spent.
Here is interesting reading if you are interested in this funding source.
$500 for Professional Development or classroom materials. Funds must be used within one year of the application. Deadlines October 1st and March 1st.
Each fall, a funding cycle with specified award categories opens. Preference is to requests in areas where their operations are located.
This company sells robots, accessories and related software. They are included here for their STEM Grants Opportunities page, which is updated often.
A listing of K-12 STEM grants, with Funding News, as well as STEM Resources and Tools. You can hire them to help you obtain grants, but we have no experience with them and cannot endorse them, in any case.
Grants for NEA members – individuals and teams of educators – to support professional development, instruction, purchase supplies. Rolling applications. A guide for writing proposals, and a list of other grantors.
Search for grants and other educator resources.
Grants to Support Technology Purchases
Select computer equipment that federal agencies have reported as excess.
Grants specifically for probeware.
The International Society for Technology in Education, search “grants” for information on their site.
Apply for grants listed, and browse for others. There are also Lesson Plans and opportunities to fund raise.
BB recognizes the need for our youth to be tech-savvy and develop 21st-century skills. They offer grants and programming for kids. Check out their Foundation.