Foreign Language & ESOL Technology Integration

Funding Your Innovative Ideas

Money - always the bane of educators!  As we discover sites that may assist you find funding, we will add them here.

Smarter Kids

Corning

Kennesaw State University's Grant Postings

Technology Grant News

US Department of Education Grant Programs

Kathy Schrock's Grant Sources for Educators

Digital Wish Grant opportunities

Tool Factory's Digital Wish grants provide monthly digital and technology awards Tool Factory's Digital Wish is a public charity that helps educators find needed funds for technology. The website listed below is designed to help educators find these funds through a variety of means. In addition, Digital Wish offers grants in the form of a mobile digital camera lab or other technology hardware and software awards for classrooms. By registering your classroom online, you will be entered automatically to win any of a number of different technology prizes. Your class profile also will be posted so possible donors can make a contribution to your classroom. Most Digital Wish awards are made on the 28th of each month. The Mobile Digital Camera Lab is awarded only in October, January, and April, and the value is over $3,600 for the lab. Awards for other hardware and software technology from Tool Factory, including digital cameras, are listed at the website. For more information, visit http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/grant_awards.

 

Websites with Grant Info

The following websites contain information on grants, scholarships, and other types of financial support.

eSchool News online. 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. The focus on this site is on creating the 21st Century classroom! You may find a way to fund your tech needs!
 Email: info@eschoolnews.com 
 Phone: (800) 394-0115
 eSchool News, 7920 Norfolk Avenue, Suite 900, Bethesda, MD 20814
FastWEB. 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.
 Email: webmaster@fastweb.com 
 Phone: (847) 785-8000
 FastWEB, 2550 Commonwealth Avenue, North Chicago, IL 60064
The Foundation Center. 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.
 Email: library@fdncenter.org 
 Phone: (800) 424-9836 or (212) 620-4230
 The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003-3076
GrantsAlert.com. This Web site's goal is to "make life a little easier for those who devote their time to searching for education grants and identifying new funding opportunities for their organizations, schools, districts, consortia, and state education agencies."
 Email: jmizereck@grantsalert.com
 Phone: (850)-385-0488
 GrantsAlert.com, PO Box 38051, Tallahassee, FL 32315-8051
Grants.gov. 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.
 Email: support@grants.gov 
 Phone: (800) 518-4726
 200 Independence Avenue, SW, HHH Building, Room 739F, Washington, DC 20201
Grantsandfunding.com. 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.
 Email: service@thompson.com 
 Phone: (800) 964-5815 or (813) 282-8807
 Thompson Publishing Group, Inc., 1725 K Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006
SchoolGrants. 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.
 Email: help@schoolgrants.org 

Document Camera

AverMedia has a provides a monthly chance for an educator to win a Docucam.

Post your Thoughts for a Chance to WIN a NEW AVerVision Document Camera Every Month!

Posting to the AVerMedia Forum not only provides information and resources to other teachers, but now can really pay off with a monthly raffle for active posters! One new AVerVision Document Camera will be raffled off every month to one lucky AVerMedia Forum poster!

Simply post information on our forum to win. The more you post, the better your chances are at winning an AVerMedia document camera! Participation is open to the public. No entry fee or purchase necessary to participate.

Adopt-A-Classroom

Adopt-A-Classroom invites the community into the classroom in support of teachers and their students.   By adopting a classroom, donors form partnerships with specific classrooms providing financial and moral  support. The result is a meaningful contribution to education in which donors experience the impact of their efforts and celebrate in a classroom's success.