Featured Opportunity: Non-profit Grant Resource This website offers a wealth of opportunities for grant-seeking nonprofits and individuals. Grant listings are organized by topic. Possible topics of interest for service-learning organizations may include education, children and youth, minorities, and the environment.

Current Funding | Ongoing Funding

Current Funding

Learning & Leadership Grants
The National Education Agency Learning & Leadership grants program provide opportunities for teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to engage in high-quality professional development and lead their colleagues in professional growth.
Eligibility:
Applicants must work in the U.S. and be one of the following: public school teachers in grades K12, public school education support professionals, or faculty and staff at public higher education institutions. Those who have less than seven years experience and/or are education support professionals are especially encouraged to apply.
Maximum Award: $2,000 for individuals and $5,000 for groups engaged in collegial study.
Deadline: Next deadline: June 1.

Student Achievement Grants
The National Education Agency will provide awards to improve the academic achievement of students by engaging in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work should also improve students' habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection.
Eligibility:
Applicants must work in the U.S. and be one of the following: public school teachers in grades K12, public school education support professionals, or faculty and staff at public higher education institutions. Those who have less than seven years experience and/or are education support professionals are especially encouraged to apply.
Maximum Award: $5,000
Deadline: June 1.

State Farm Project Ignition Grants
[from PSLA] Project Ignition is a chance for high school students, teachers, and community-program leaders to implement new, creative service-learning projects promoting teen driver safety. Teams will create awareness campaigns using their choice of media. The possibilities are as far-ranging as the imagination. Up to 25 applicants will be selected by mid-May to move into the next phase of the project. Each applicant selected will receive a grant check at the beginning of the fall semester for $2,000 from State Farm to help put their plan into action. Final projects must be complete and ready for final judging in December 2006. Application deadline is April 30.

Ongoing Funding

Hamburger Helper 'My Hometown Helper' Grants
Calling all hometown helpers! Are you looking for funds to help spruce up your local park? Does your town fire department need funding to train new volunteers? If your hometown cause could use some financial support, Hamburger Helper is looking to lend a "helping hand" to neighborhoods nationwide with its "My Hometown Helper" grant program.

Individuals from communities and organizations across America can submit a written essay of 250 words or less describing how the "My Hometown Helper" grant would help improve their community project.
Maximum Award: $15,000. Applicants can request a one-time award between $500 and $15,000 during any single month.
Eligibility: All requests for funding must be sponsored by a municipal or civic organization or public school.
Deadline: The program will award grants each month from online applications received through May 2007. Projects will be chosen on the 15th of every month. Projects not chosen in the current month are automatically reconsidered for the next month.

Allstate Grants

• Safe and vital communities. Programs should address catastrophe response, youth anti-violence, neighborhood revitalization, or teen safe driving
  
  
• Economic empowerment. Programs should address financial and economic literacy, insurance education, or empowerment for victims of domestic violence
  
  
• Tolerance, inclusion and diversity. Programs should address teaching tolerance to youth, ending hate crimes, or alleviating discrimination

Start Something Awards
Developed by Target Corporation along with the Tiger Woods Foundation, Start Something is a free program for youth ages 8 to 17 that addresses three national education priorities: character education, service-learning, and career exploration. Students who complete the program may apply for scholarships of up to $5,000 to help them continue to develop their talents and pursue a dream or goal.
Eligibility: Young people ages 8-17
Maximum Award: $5,000
Deadline: Ongoing

Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund aims to fill gaps in medium- to longer-term recovery efforts in areas affected by the hurricane. The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund will support projects that:

1. provide missing and critical pieces of integrated community recovery and rebuilding, and
2. adopt an approach that recognizes and reflects the interdependent nature of elements needed to renew and rebuild strong communities such as housing, employment, and religious, educational and recreational institutions.

New Online Resources to Identify Federal Grant Opportunities
USDA's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is offering a new online grants catalog, “Federal Funds for Organizations That Help Those in Need," to find Federal grant opportunities suitable for faith-based and community organizations.

Grant Opportunities Supporting Victims of Hurricane Katrina
GrantStation has developed a clearinghouse for current grant announcements and other related information that will affect those organizations, educational institutions and government agencies helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Fundable.org
Fundable.org is a new service that lets groups of people pool money to make purchases or raise funds. Similar to online auctions, Fundable's pages, called "group actions," are created by people who use this site. Each group action has a description of how much money needs to be collected and what it will do. Once everyone has paid, Fundable disburses the total to the group action's organizer. This resource can be used to organize funding for service-learning projects.

CiviConnections Grants
CiviConnections is a three-year teacher grant program funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the National Council for the Social Studies. The program supports students and teachers nationwide in linking local history inquiry with service-learning activities. A team of three teachers can apply for a $7,500 grant to cover its costs for attending a summer workshop, implementing the program during fall 2006, and attending a 2006 conference in Washington, D.C.

DonorsChoose
At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals choose projects to fund. Any individual can search such proposals by areas of interest, learn about classroom needs, and choose to fund the project(s) they find most compelling. DonorsChoose currently serves schools in Chicago, New York City, North Carolina and the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Allen Foundation
The Allen Foundation supports educational nutrition programs, with priority given to training programs for children and young adults to improve their health and development. Maximum Award: Past grants have ranged from $2,000 to $1 million. Eligibility: Schools and school districts should partner with local nonprofits to form nutrition education programs. Deadline: Ongoing.

K-12 American Stars of Teaching
The U.S. Department of Education will honor K-12 teachers as American Stars of Teaching. The Department's Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative is seeking nominations and information about teachers who are improving student achievement, using innovative strategies, and making a difference in the lives of their students.
Four of last year's honored teachers are profiled from the Department's Feb. 1 issue of The Achiever.

Paying for Youth-Initiated Service Projects
The Pay It Forward Foundation offers grants to fund service-oriented projects designed by youth to support their school, neighborhood, or greater community.
Eligibility: Youth leaders, school staff, and youth-group representatives.
Award: $50-500
Deadlines: October 15, January 15, and April 15

Captain Planet Foundation
The Captain Planet Foundation funds hands-on environmental projects to encourage youth around the world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities. Maximum Award: $2500. Eligibility: Schools and non-profits. Deadlines: June 30, September 30, and December 31.

Submit Your Service-Learning Project
"Teaching Tolerance" is seeking information about projects that promote diversity, community-building, peace and justice. Fees from $100-$800 are offered for each published item.


Grants to Help Underserved Children and Families
The Tiger Woods Foundation will fund nonprofit organizations, projects, and programs supporting underserved children and families in the areas of education, youth development, parenting, and family health and welfare.

John Glenn Scholars in Service-Learning
The John Glenn Institute at Ohio State University is awarding scholarships (25 over the next three years) to advance understanding, or adoption, of service-learning, particularly in K-12 education. The national competition involves scholars submitting a single paper focused on advancing a particular issue or area.

Selected scholars will receive a $1,000 honorarium and be recognized as John Glenn Scholars in Service-Learning. Their work will also help create "advisories" that "convey essential findings in concise form accessible to the public."

Mix it Up Grants
The Southern Poverty Law Center awards grants to support youth-directed programs and projects that address social boundaries in schools or communities.
Eligibility: Ongoing youth-directed projects
Award: $500
Deadline: Ongoing

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.

Southern Poverty Law Center Supports Projects Promoting Tolerance
The Teaching Tolerance Grants Program, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will award grants of up to $2,000 to K-12 educators to support the design and implementation of antibias projects in classrooms, schools, and communities. Applications are accepted all year around.

Innovation Grants and Learning & Leadership Grants
The National Education Association Foundation provides grants for the purpose of engaging in high-quality professional development or implementing service-learning.
Eligibility: Public school and higher education teachers, faculty, or staff
Maximum Award: $2,000 for individuals, $5,000 for groups.
Deadline: Rolling. Applications reviewed three times per year.

More funding and awards

• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Funding.
• Public Education Network (PEN) Weekly Grants Newsblast.
• The Foundation Center's RFP Bulletin
• GrantsAlert
• Humble Independent School District Grant Opportunities
• Pennsylvania Department of Education Pre K-12 Grants and Funding
• National Youth Development Information Center Funding
• National Education Agency Grants and Awards