Grant Opportunities Available
Ongoing Opportunities:
Action for Healthy Kids NourishEd District Partnership Grant
School district staff apply for support for district-level policy and professional development, as well as funding and professional development for schools within the district to support curricula/programs, best practices and policy implementation, and family-school partnerships to address food access and nutrition education (NourishEd) and provide a learning environment where students are healthy in body and mind. All grants include monetary and in-kind support from AFHK. More information can be found here.
AdoptAClassroom.org
Spotlight Funds are a grant program for K-12 educators. Each fund supports a specific subject area, or addresses a need facing K-12 educators and students. We currently have five Spotlight Funds: Arts, COVID-19 Relief, Inclusive Classroom, Natural Disaster Relief, Racial Equity in Schools, and STEM. Educators who receive a Spotlight Fund Grant can use the funds to order the tools and materials they need to support their curriculum and meet their students’ needs. See here for more information on each fund, and how to apply.
Arkansas AWARE Mini-Grant Opportunity
All Arkansas public school districts are eligible to apply for grant funding up to $10,000 to provide direct mental health services, mental health awareness, trauma-informed practices and behavior support services. Districts should submit completed applications as an electronic file to Elizabeth.Kindall@ade.arkansas.gov. Applications will be accepted now through Friday, October 28, or until funds are depleted. More information can be found here.
ASTA Teacher Scholarship and Classroom Grants
ASTA Teacher Scholarship and Classroom Grants Teacher scholarships and classroom grants are competitive awards available to all educators in Arkansas. Apply online or by mail to receive up to $500 for professional development or classroom materials. Applications are accepted with a recurring deadline of March 31 and October 31.
Cook Center for Human Connection: Calm Room Grant
The Cook Center for Human Connection, is a non-profit organization that brings together the best organizations, programs and products to provide mental health support, and enhance human connections essential for people to thrive, is offering a matching grant of $5000 per school (for up to 20 schools) to install a Calm Room in their school building. More details of the grant can be viewed here.
COVID-19 Student Support Recovery Grant
Applications are accepted from local education agencies, charter schools, public schools, nonpublic, and private schools to implement SBHSN's evidence-based mental healthcare program. The purpose of this program is to promote a collaborative and integrated approach amongst the education and healthcare community to ensure students succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. The funding will support the placement of licensed mental health professionals on school campuses. These health professionals will provide mental health services and coordinate academic-support activities in collaboration with school district designated program personnel. More information can be found here.
Edthena Innovation Fund
Edthena is introducing a $1.5-million Innovation Fund to support schools and districts with their teacher observation and collaboration initiatives. The Edthena video collaboration platform can help by:
Streamlining feedback to teachers with video observations
Creating opportunities for more teacher-teacher collaboration
Scaling best practices and “what works” examples across the district
Flexible, asynchronous learning that’s still high quality and high impact
Details on how to apply for funding can be found here.
Engage Every Student Initiative
On July 14, USED announced the Engage Every Student Initiative, which focuses on providing access to high-quality summer programming and other out-of-school time (OST) opportunities. USED also announced new resources to support OST, including a $3-4 million dollar contract that will be awarded in FY23 to provide OST best practices, along with a new tool from the Institute of Education Sciences to support states, districts, or programs in building and using evidence to implement after-school and summer learning programs.
ESA Matching Grant Program
Act 217 of 2022 appropriated $5,300,000 for the ESA Matching Grant Program. Districts will receive matching grant funds for Enhanced Student Achievement (ESA) expenditures for evidence-based programs to improve the academic achievement of identified national school lunch students. The program is limited to tutors, before or after-school academic programs, and pre-kindergarten programs. Expenditures incurred from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, with the following codes will be eligible for matching grant funds:
004* ESA, Before and After Academic Program
005* ESA, Pre-K
006* ESA, Tutors
204* ESA/SP ED, Before and After Academic Program
205* ESA/SP ED, Pre-K
206* ESA/SP ED, Tutors
More information can be found here.
Harbor Freight Donation
Harbor Freight Tools is proud to support students and teachers in K-12 public schools across the country. From donating a greenhouse for a middle school garden to providing tools for a high school engineering class, we are committed to supporting excellent teaching and learning in the communities where we live, work and serve. We are consistently impressed by the dedication of teachers, administrators and parents eager to improve their students’ education, and we are honored to help make their vision a reality. More information can be viewed here.
Inventionland Grants for K-12 Schools
We are pleased to announce the expanded Innovation Education Grant program for the 2022/2023 School Year . The program is meant to financially support schools, districts and other local educational agencies who desire to leverage Inventionland Education’s award winning Innovation Labs®, professional development programs, and K-12 Innovation curriculum. It is our goal to offer all educators and students the same opportunities to experience the magical world of innovation, creativity, and STEAM-related learning. More information can be accessed here.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Grants
Apply for NCTM's Mathematics Education Trust grants, scholarships, and awards. Funding ranges from $1,500 to $24,000 and is available to help math teachers, prospective teachers, and other math educators improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. To view the current grant opportunities available, click here.
National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS)
On July 5, the NPSS officially launched. This new initiative is a public/private collaboration between AmeriCorps, USED, and a large coalition of education and service organizations that will together support the expansion, launch, and improvement of "people-powered supports" such as high-impact tutoring, mentoring, student success coaching, and others with a goal of recruiting 250,000 professionals into the recovery effort nationwide.
Project to Support America's Families and Educators
The Project SAFE grant program is intended to improve students’ safety and well-being by providing resources to local educational agencies (LEAs) that adopt and implement strategies to prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) consistent with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Project SAFE grant program provides grants to eligible LEAs to improve student safety and well-being by advancing strategies consistent with CDC guidance to reduce transmission of COVID-19 in schools. Applications are accepted until funding is depleted. More information can be found here.
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