• LRE Grants

• Hasbro Children’s Foundation

• Horace Mann Offers Scholarships for Teachers

• April’s Showers Should Bring Flowers

• Nike and Mike extend the Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program

• Upcoming Deadlines!

Federal Opportunities

June 1

• Linking Adolescents at Risk to Mental Health Services

• Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants

• Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award

June 7

• Smaller Learning Communities Program

June 8

• Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Program & Asthma Management Training Funds

June 13

• In-School Environmental Asthma Education

• Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth

June 14

• Teaching American History

June 15

• Assets for Independence Demonstration Program

• Nature of Learning

June 20

• Foundations for Learning

June 21

• YouthBuild

June 30

• Grants To Support Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (States only)

Foundation
and Corporation
Opportunities

June 1

• NEA Innovation Grants and Learning & Leadership Grants

• Garden Crusader Awards

June 5

• Dollar General Community Grant

June 7

• JOIN HANDS DAY Excellence Awards

June 13

• Youth Venture Awards

June 15

• Jordan Fundamentals

• The Nature of Learning Grants Program

• CVS Pharmacy Charitable Trust

June 17

• American Academy of Dermatology’s Shade Structure Grants

June 24

• Schools as Centers of Community: A National Search for Excellence

June 30

• Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Program

July 1

• Samsung’s Hope for Education

• American Legacy Foundation’s Small Innovative Grants Program

• Presidential Freedom Scholarships

July 8

• Samuel Harris Fund For Children’s Dental Health Dentistry Grant Program

The Hasbro Children’s Foundation values programs that directly serve children, from birth to age 12.  The foundation funds programs within three major areas:

1. Innovative programs with local impact -
   The foundation will provide small grants to expand local direct service programs for children in need.
    

2. National replication / adaptation / expansion of innovations -
   The foundation can make larger-sometimes multi-year-grants for innovative direct service programs that can replicate working programs to more communities.
    

3. Innovative programs with national impact -
   The foundation provides seed grants to innovative new programs that propose to support vulnerable children and their families and improve children’s lives in communities nationwide.

The foundation accepts letters of inquiry on an outgoing basis.  Letters should contain pertinent information on the proposal, including, among other items:

• your organization’s name, address, telephone, fax, and contact person with title;

• your organization’s mission statement;

• the name and location(s) for the actual project;

• the need your project expects to meet and what makes your project innovative; and

• a description of the project under consideration.

It may take three months before you hear whether your project will be funded.  Most grant awards range between $500 and $35,000.  Consideration for 2005 funding began Oct. 15, 2004, and continues through Oct. 14, 2005.

More info online…..

For more information, visit http://www.hasbro.org/hcf/

Horace Mann Offers Scholarships for Teachers to Take College Courses

The Horace Mann Scholarship Program for Educators awards teachers in public or private schools with funds to pay for college tuition and costs.  One applicant will receive $5,000 to pay for college courses payable over four years.  Fifteen others will receive $1,000 in awards payable over two years; and 20 grant recipients will receive one-time awards of $500 each.

Apply for the scholarship opportunity online.  Applications will be judged on a written essay, school and community activities, and letters of recommendation.  Award money will be paid directly to the chosen college or university for tuition, fees, and other educational costs.  The winners will be announced by the Horace Mann Companies on or about July 1, 2005.

More info online……

For more information, and to access the online application, visit http://www.horacemann.com/edscholarship

Instead of sending students out to raise money for school programs with a box of grade B candy bars, or a catalogue offering overpriced knick-knacks and scented candles, try involving them selling bulbs that will produce beautiful tulips, daffodils, or hyacinths.  The National Garden Association endorses the Dutch Bulb fundraiser, which enables participants to earn 50 percent of the profits.  And, for contributors, each bulb order comes with instructions for planting and care.

A free fundraising kit is available with brochures, collection envelopes, a chairperson checklist, and a master order sheet.  To find out more, call (888) 838-1093, or visit http://www.dutchgardens.com/CustomerService/fundraising.asp .

Michael Jordan and Nike started the Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program in 1999 to recognize excellent teaching in public secondary schools that served economically disadvantaged students.

The program, administered by Scholarship America, has recently expanded to include grades 1 through 6.

Applicants must be public school teachers of grades 1 through 12 in an accredited school where at least 50 percent of the student population receives free or reduced price lunches.  Applicants must develop an original lesson or thematic unit with high expectations for students.  Students may be involved in this plan or unit, which may not come from a commercial package.

Up to 400 grants of $2,500 each will be awarded each year:

200 grants in grades 1 through 6; and 200 grants in grades 7 through 12.  Awards may be used for materials, supplies, equipment, transportation, software, or other items necessary to the implementation of the proposal.  The deadline of applications is June 15, 2005.  Responses should be limited to three pages with 12-point font size, one-inch margins, and double spacing.  Scholarship America will select the finalists, and a committee of teachers will select the Jordan Fundamentals grant recipients from the finalists.

More info online….

For more information, visit http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=26&item=jordan