PROFESSIONAL
Perkins & Funding
The ABCs of the ARRA
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides for approximately $100 billion in funds appropriated to the U.S. Department of Education. The priorities outlined in the ARRA include the adoption of rigorous college- and career-ready standards for students. To help you learn more about how the ARRA may impact your school district's needs, McGraw-Hill Education has created an online resource at www.educationstimulus09.com. The site is designed to help you become familiar with the principles and strategies guiding the distribution and implementation of ARRA funds, and includes links to valuable funding information.
Online Funding Info
Gathering the information and resources you need to apply for funding can be a daunting task. To help simplify the process, Glencoe has created the Grant Resource Center, a free online source that is available through our Web site's eSolutions program. The Grant Resource Center gives you the tools you need to submit effective requests for grants. Highlights include:
- Information on the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT or Ed Tech) program, including information on how to use the funds
- An extensive list of hot links to the different types of grants available
- An explanation of what information most grant funding agencies require, broken down into easy-to-use sections
- Advice on grant writing dos and don'ts, along with hot links for more grant writing resources
- Tips for managing grant funds
You can access the Grant Resource Center at www.glencoe.com/esolutions/educator/grant_resource_center.html.
Use Perkins Funding for Glencoe Materials
Your school may qualify for federal money under the recently reauthorized Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act. Among other things, the Perkins Act allows grant funds to be spent on supplemental materials for career and technical education programs, such as videos and DVDs, computer simulations, online tutorials, and workbooks. Such materials help you provide rigorous and challenging academic and career instruction for your students. They also help you plan and present varied, motivating activities (such as self-guided and team projects) and accommodate different learning styles.
Glencoe provides a wide range of supplemental materials eligible for purchase with Perkins funds. To see what is available to you, browse Glencoe's "one-stop shopping" catalog of instructional materials. Click the link below to download the catalog, which presents high-quality, innovative products for Family and Consumer Sciences; Business, Careers and Marketing; and Trade and Technical Education.
Funding Resources
www.adoptaclassroom.com
Adopt-A-Classroom helps build partnerships between community donors and specific classrooms to provide financial and moral support.
www.benjerry.com/foundation
Employees of Ben & Jerry's work within the company's philanthropic Foundation to support environmental and social causes.
www.donorschoose.org
Pioneered by a group of Bronx, New York, high school teachers in 2000, DonorsChoose enables teachers to solicit small, directed contributions. Go to the "About" page for information on how teachers can post class projects and request donations.
www.dreyersinc.com/dreyersfoundation
The Dreyer's Foundation supports programs and projects dedicated to building young people's skills and talents within their family, school, and community lives.
www.fundforteachers.org
Fund for Teachers awards grants directly to pre-K-12 teachers to help support professional development.
www.grants.gov
This central federal government portal provides access to more than $400 billion in federal grants.
www.staplesfoundation.org/foundapplication.html
The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth.
www.seaworld.org/conservation-matters/eea
SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards reward money to K-12 students and teachers across the country who are working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve the environment.
www.Target.com/tcoe
Target donates undesignated funds to K-12 schools nationwide twice a year through its Take Charge of Education program. Funds have been used for everything from books and supplies to extracurricular activities.
www.tolerance.org/teach/grants/guide.jsp
Teaching Tolerance offers grants to pre-K-12 teacher for efforts to help improve intergroup relations among students and support professional development for teachers.
www.wkkf.org
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation seeks to support programs that help vulnerable children reach their potential as individuals and society members.
www.wsjf.org
The Walter S. Johnson Foundation Education program provides funding to undeserved youth, ages 14-24, to help them complete their schooling.
