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Grant Writing: Funding Ideas and Resources

 

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.
 

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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

 

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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/

 

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"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

 

Fund Raising Ideas

 

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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