Grants, Awards & Freebies
Grants, awards & freebies - June 7, 2007
Jun 7, 2007 11:19 AM
MetLife Fellowships: Teachers Network offers MetLife Fellowships for New York City public school teachers in their Teachers Network Leadership Institute (TNLI) for the 2007–2008 school year. TNLI MetLife Fellows receive a stipend of $1,000, participate in online dialogues with other fellows, meet once a month on Saturday with influential policy-makers and conduct action research studies in their classroom — addressing the direct link between policy-making and its effect on student achievement. Fellows develop policy recommendations, document their work in major publications and disseminate their findings to policy-makers at all levels. Applications can be downloaded from www.teachernetwork.org/tnli. DEADLINE: June 25. CONTACT: Jennifer Chen, Assistant Director of Programs, Teachers Network, 285 West Broadway, Suite 200, New York, NY 10013; e-mail: jchen@teachersnetwork.org; phone: 1-212-991-2388.
Achievement awards: District Administration, a magazine for K–12 education administrators, has announced its first-ever X-Factor Student Achievement Awards. To enter, applicants must submit a 300-word description of how they would spend $30,000 to improve student performance. The winner must use the award to implement the submitted idea. The grand-prize winner will receive $30,000, to be awarded in 2008, and be featured in the September issue of DA magazine. Applicants must be senior-level school district administrators. Otherwise, entries must be endorsed by any of the following: a superintendent, assistant superintendent, curriculum director/subject area supervisor, library/media center director, or a school principal. DEADLINE: June 15. CONTACT: Apply online at www.districtadministration.com/xfactor.
Classroom grants: Olympus and education software company Tool Factory have teamed up to host a variety of classroom and student contests. One contest, called Classroom Grants, offers awards to schools based on their ideas for a class project that would involve digital cameras and Tool’s educational software. A school representative must go online to one of the companies’ Web sites and submit a description of the intended project, along with a budget. Five winners will receive $3,550 in prizes, including three digital cameras, a Tool software license and $500 cash. Other contests include awards for student photography, a special education project and a grant to start a podcasting program. The Web site offers application details. DEADLINE: June 30. CONTACT: Applicants are asked to submit entries through the Web site: www.toolfactory.com and click on Grants.
Entomological Society of America awards: The Entomological Society of America is accepting nominations for its President’s Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education. The prizes are intended to recognize educators who have gone beyond traditional teaching methods by using insects as educational tools. Two winners will be chosen (a primary and secondary school teacher). Each will receive $400 for teaching materials; $400 for travel to make a peer presentation on using insects in school programs; registration to attend the ESA annual meeting; and $800 for travel expenses to attend the annual meeting. K–12 educators can apply for the award. You must be nominated; applicants can self-nominate. DEADLINE: July 1. CONTACT: Melodie Dziduch at 1-301-731-4535; e-mail: melodie@entfdn.org; Web site: www.entsoc.org and highlight Awards, Honors and Scholarships. Click What’s Available and click on Foundation Professional Awards. Then click on President's Prizes in Outstanding Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education.
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund: The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, founded in 1958 by the editors of The Wall Street Journal to improve the quality of journalism education and pool of applicants for newspaper jobs, is looking to recognize a teacher for his or her exemplary work as a scholastic media adviser and journalism educator. The Teacher of the Year will receive a laptop computer, write a quarterly column for the Adviser Update, and earn a $1,000 college scholarship for a senior at his or her school. Four distinguished advisers will earn $500 scholarships for their students. High school journalism teachers with at least three years’ experience can apply. DEADLINE: July 2. CONTACT: Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Inc., P.O. Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08543-0300; Web site: www.newspaperfund.org and click on HS Programs.
Ezra Jack Keats minigrant program: Ezra Jack Keats was an American picture-book maker known for championing diversity. The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is currently soliciting applications for minigrants that support a broad range of programs in public schools and libraries. Minigrants are for $500. Proposals should not attempt to fund duplicated programs. DEADLINE: Sept. 15. CONTACT: Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant Program, 450 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215; e-mail: foundation@ezra-jack-keats.org; Web site: www.ezra-jack-keats.org and click on Programs, then Minigrant Applications.
Summer Stipends (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities is seeking applications for its Summer Stipends grant awards. The stipends are intended to support research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public’s understanding of humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, translations, editions or other scholarly tools. Eighty awards of $6,000 maximum each will be awarded. Individuals, faculty or staff of colleges, primary or secondary school staff, independent scholars or writers may apply. Summer stipends support full-time work in the humanities for up to two months. Areas include language, linguistics, literature, history, philosophy, comparative religion and others detailed on the NEH Web site. DEADLINE: Oct. 2. CONTACT: Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20506; phone: 1-202-606-8200; e-mail: stipends@neh.gov; Web site: www.neh.gov and click on Grant Guidelines under Grant Information from the menu on the left. Then drag down to Research Projects and click on Summer Stipends.
