Grants for the Week of Jan. 29-Feb. 3 (edit this)
This must be the week of energy grants-PG&E and BP are offering their own grants. Several SFUSD schools (Alvarado, McCoppin, Balboa, R.L. Stevenson and others) have been successful in getting PG&E grants. So let’s spread that success to your school!
1. Pacific Gas and Electric Company - Bright Ideas Grants for Schools-Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Attn: Mary Spruill, 8408 Kao Circle, Manassas, VA 20110, (800) 875-5029, Fax: (800) 847-1820
Application Deadline: March 20, 2007
Award Amount: $2500 to $5000 each
Eligible Applicants: Schools in the Pacific Gas and Electric Company service areas. (SFUSD schools can apply even though they are actually SFPUC electricity customers along with all City buildings.)
Focus of Interest: Grants support schools offering outstanding solar energy education projects. Grants aspire to help teach tomorrow’s leaders about solar energy and the use of renewable energy sources today. Funding supports hands-on solar energy activities, classroom curriculum, teacher training, and more.
More information at
http://www.need.org/pgesolarschools/big.htm
2. Future Fisherman Foundation, Attn: Jesse Graytock, Coordinator, PE Grant Application, 225 Reinekers Lane, Suite 420, Alexandria, VA 22314 , (703) 519-9691, ext. 224,
jgraytock@asafishing.org
Application Deadline: March 2, 2007
Award Amount: $5000 maximum
Eligible Applicants: Certified elementary, middle or high school physical education teachers employed by either a public, private or charter school.
Focus of Interest: Funding aims to enable schools to incorporate new and/or improved fishing and boating programs into physical education curriculum. Programs must be incorporated into mainstream physical education curriculum during school hours. Main overall objectives must emphasize the relationship between fishing/boating and lifetime physical/mental health.
More Information at: http://www.futurefisherman.org/news/detail.php?story=35
3. Women’s Sports Foundation - GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards, Eisenhower Park , East Meadow, NY 11554, (800) 227-3988 , (516) 542-4700, Fax: (516) 542-4716 , info@womenssportsfoundation.org
Application Deadline: February 16, 2007
Award Amount: $50,000 (20 awards)
Eligible Applicants: School amateur, community and/or nonprofit affiliated teams; whose members are female; enrolled in 9th-12th grade; and residents of the United States.
Focus of Interest: Funding supports the GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards. The awards program is designed to inspire teams to help fight the disturbing physical and psychological health risks affecting America’s youth. Having fun with fitness is a key element to getting girls physically active. Teams must lead their own team project that will get girls in their communities physically active and submit a detailed essay or a VHS, DVD or CD-ROM telling us about the project.
More info: http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/funding/featured.html?record=34
4. BP America Inc. - A+ for Energy Grants Program (regional)
BP America Inc., A+ for Energy, 700 West 5th Ave.
Naperville, IL 60563, (877) 243-6760
Application Deadline: March 23, 2007
Award Amount: $5000 to $10,000
Eligible Applicants: PreK-12 teachers at public/state-controlled and private schools in California, Texas, New Mexico, regions of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, and Alberta (Canada).
Focus of Interest: The funding program was developed to recognize teachers for innovation and excellence in teaching energy and/or energy conservation in the classroom. Grants support and recognize innovative classroom, after-school, extra-curricular, or summer projects focused on energy and/or energy conservation.
More info: http://www.aplusforenergy.com/
5. . U.S. Dept. of Education- Early Reading First Program
Application Deadline: February 21, 2007 - pre-application
May 29, 2007 - full application
Award Amount: $102 million (23 to 68 awards)
Eligible Applicants: Local educational agencies; organizations or agencies that serve preschool age children such as: Head Start programs; child-care programs; family literacy programs; higher education institution lab schools; and faith-based and community-based organizations.
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Focus of Interest: Grants support local efforts to enhance the oral language, cognitive, and early reading skills of preschool age children especially those from low-income families, through strategies, materials, and professional development that are grounded in scientifically based reading research.
More information at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-834.htm
and at Federal Register, January 22, 2007, Volume 72, Number 13
Page 2667-2673
6. The Rosenberg Fund for Children - Grant Programs (national)
Attn: Kelly Facto, Grantmaking Coordinator, 116 Pleasant St., Suite 348, Easthampton, MA 01027, (413) 529-0063, Fax: (413) 529-0802, rfc@rfc.org
Application Deadline: March 21, 2007 - spring cycle,
October 13, 2007 - fall cycle
Amount: $600 to $3000 each
Eligible Applicants: Parents, custodians, guardians, professionals and institutions to benefit children in the United States of targeted activists; and young adult children,18 years or older, of targeted activists.
Focus of Interest: Funding supports the educational and emotional needs of children of targeted progressive activists, and youth who are targeted activists themselves. In most instances, professionals and institutions directly receive the grants to provide services at no or reduced cost to beneficiaries. The organization will fund such things as: counseling; school tuition; camp tuition; cultural lessons; after-school programs; prison visits; educational or therapeutic travel; and post high-school books and supplies for college or other educational training.
More info: http://www.rfc.org/basicinformation.htm
March 8th, 2007 at 11:53 am e
To Whom It May Concern: We are seeking planning funds to establish a all-subject environmental contest for the public schools. This would encourage teacher and student creativity in designing environmental projects and lessons in all primary grades and all subjects, such as a The Third Grade tree planting project or an Environmental English project, with significant prizes and gifts for teachers and students. Most environmental education, what there is of it, takes place within the general category of Environmental Science, and therefore leaves out the mass of students who do not take Environmental Science. Perhaps you can help us. Jim LeCuyer, Director, Environmental Futures Contest for Public Schools, a project of Resource Renewal Institute, San Francisco.