GRANT & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
UnitedHealthcare/YSA: HEROES Service-Learning Grants
UnitedHealthcare and Youth Service America are offering UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning grants for youth-led community education projects in selected states and areas. The program supports teachers, service-learning coordinators, and students in the health professions who lead service-learning projects around childhood obesity, engaging children and youth ages 5 to 25 as volunteers. Maximum award: $1,000. Eligibility: teachers, service-learning coordinators, students in the health professions, and non-profit organizations in selected cities and states. Deadline: January 15, 2009.
http://servenet.org/Toolkit/ContentManagement/ServiceWireNews/tabid/122/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/805/Default.aspx
National Center for Summer Learning: Excellence in Summer Learning Award
The Excellence in Summer Learning Award recognizes an outstanding summer program that demonstrates excellence in accelerating academic achievement and promoting positive development for young people between kindergarten and 12th grade. Award: national recognition, increased press opportunities, conference presentations and complimentary registrations, professional development opportunities for staff, and increased publishing opportunities. Eligibility: public or private organizations or agencies (schools, community-based organizations, libraries, universities, faith-based organizations, etc.) serving young people between the ages of kindergarten and 12th grade over the summer months. Deadline: January 21, 2009.
http://www.summerlearning.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=422
Intel Foundation: Schools of Distinction
The Intel Foundation Schools of Distinction Program honors U.S. schools that have demonstrated excellence in math and science education. In order to be considered as an Intel School of Distinction, schools must develop an environment and curriculum that represents the intersection of benchmarks laid out by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills in their ICT literacy maps for math and science and national content standards for that content area. Maximum award: $25,000 cash grant and $100,000 in products and services from sponsors. Eligibility: K-12 public, private, charter, parochial schools in the United States, Department of Defense Dependents Schools, and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Deadline: February 17, 2009.
http://www.intel.com/education/schoolsofdistinction/application.htm#Categories
NABT/Vernier: Ecology/Environmental Teaching Award
The National Association of Biology Teachers Vernier Software & Technology Ecology/Environmental Teaching Award honors a teacher who has successfully developed and demonstrated an innovative approach in the teaching of ecology/environmental science and has carried his/her commitment to the environment into the community. Maximum award: $1,000 toward travel to the NABT Professional Development Conference, and $500 of Vernier equipment. Eligibility: secondary school teachers. Deadline: March 15, 2009.
http://www.nabt.org/sites/S1/index.php?p=290
Legacy Project: Listen to A Life
The Legacy Project Listen to A Life Contest connects generations through oral history. To enter, a young person must interview an older person about his or her hopes and goals throughout life, how he/she achieved goals and overcame obstacles, or how his/her dreams may have changed along the way. The young person then writes a 300-word essay based on the interview. Maximum award: a Lenovo ThinkCentre, iPod Classic, and $800 worth of Orchard Software; young person's school receives $25,000 worth of Orchard Software. Eligibility: each team must consist of a young person 8-18 years and a grandparent or grandfriend 50 years or over (co-entrant cannot be a parent; he or she can be a grandparent, older friend, mentor, neighbor, nursing home resident, etc.) Deadline: March 30, 2009.
http://www.legacyproject.org/contests/ltal.html