Grant Resources
Grants can bring money to your teaching aquarium project. Grant seekers must investigate many resources and consider using a grant-writing professional.
Contact local community foundations, service organizations, businesses, and state agencies that provide school site-based grants in support of educational technology.
Grant Seekers’ Resources
This online version of a monthly magazine contains a grants section with regularly updated grant, scholarship, professional development, and other funding opportunities for both educators and students.
Website: http://www.eschoolnews.com/
Phone: (800) 394-0115
eSchool News
7920 Norfolk Avenue, Suite 900
Bethesda, MD 20814
The largest online scholarship search available, with 400,000 scholarships representing over one billion in scholarship dollars. Provides students with accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants, and fellowships suited to their goals and qualifications at no cost.
Website: http://www.fastweb.com/
Phone: (847) 785-8000
FastWEB
2550 Commonwealth Avenue
North Chicago, IL 60064
An independent nonprofit information clearinghouse on grants available throughout the United States with headquarters in New York, and additional libraries in Washington, DC, Atlanta, Cleveland, and San Francisco. The center offers publications, including directories of foundation and corporate grantmakers, research advice, custom research, and database searching. The Web site includes online training in grantseeking, proposal writing, and funding research, as well as an online librarian.
Website: http://foundationcenter.org/
Phone: (800) 424-9836 or (212) 620-4230
The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003-3076
Allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies, and encompasses over 900 grant programs offered by the twenty six Federal grant-making agencies. It streamlines the process of awarding over $350 billion annually to state and local governments, academia, not-for-profits, and other organizations.
Website:http://www.grants.gov/
Phone: (800) 518-4726
200 Independence Avenue
SW, HHH Building, Room 739F
Washington, DC 20201
Offers a complete listing of all Thompson Publishing Group publications that focus on grant and funding issues. Subscribers of the group’s publications have access to a special section that provides resources such as grant deadlines, highlights of funding issues, and links to related Web sites.
Website: http://www.thompson.com/
Phone: (800) 964-5815 or (813) 282-8807
Thompson Publishing Group, Inc.
1725 K Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20006
A collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and obtain special grants for a variety of projects. The site offers fundraising ideas, sample proposals, grant writing tips, and scholarship information.
Website: http://k12grants.org/
Periodicals with Grant Information
This magazine addresses multiple technologies used in K-12 schools today. Selected full-text content is now available online. Includes a NewsWatch section, which posts technology-related funding news and links.
Website: http://www.mmischools.com/
Publisher: Information Today
Phone: (609) 654-6266
The online version of this magazine contains a Grants and Contests section with a searchable database of regularly updated grant, scholarship, professional development, and other funding opportunities for both educators and students. The site integrated with Gwen Solomon’s Well Connected Educator, producing a more extensive site that includes an interactive forum, software reviews, and other resources. Published eight times a year.
Website: http://www.techlearning.com/Default
Publisher: Miller Freeman
Phone: (800) 607-4410
Miller Freeman
600 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
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