Technology Integration

Part 2: Resources (Page 4 of 4)

Grants, Other Funding, Grant Writing, and Free Resources

Technology Integration is a four part series on essential questions, technology integration resources, web page design, and multimedia in projects.  Sections contain relevant opening essays and resources.

• Part 1: Essential Questions

• Part 2: Technology Integration Resources

  Tech Resources (Page 1): General Resources

  Tech Resources (Page 2) : Building Internet, Search and Citation Skills has subsections:

  • Build your Internet Skills

  • Locating, Evaluating, and Citing Information

  Tech Resources (Page 3): Online Student and Computer Safety (with software suggestions)

  Tech Resources (Page 4): Grants, Other Funding, Grant Writing, and Free Resources

• Part 3: Web Page Design 

• Part 4: Multimedia in Projects

Grants, Other Funding, Grant Writing, and Free Resources

American Association of School Administrators Use the search tool for resources for grants and funding.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Basic Elements for Grant Writing

eSchool News K-20 Technology Solutions Center contains a section on Grants and Funding.  You can also subscribe to their Grants and Funding ALERT, which will include an e-mail newsletter twice a month.  You'll get:

• all the new grant opportunities just announced from federal, state and local agencies, community and corporate foundations
• up-to-the minute overviews of federal funding resources with deadlines and amounts
• grant-giver profiles complete with names, titles, and contact links.

Edutopia.org from the George Lucas Foundation maintains a list of corporate, nonprofit, and government grant-making institutions, periodicals with grant information, and more.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence offers free online educational resources supported by agencies of the U.S. federal government. Subjects include arts, educational technology, languages, health and safety, language arts, mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education.  The site also offers an extensive list of sites for students and is an additional source for content to integrate into the curriculum.

Finance Project's mission is to develop and disseminate information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs and financing strategies.  Districts might benefit from resources included among its Information Resource Center.  From its Financing Professional Development in Education, consider the document, Excerpts from Inside the Black Box of School District Spending on Professional Development in Education: Lessons From Five Urban Districts, 2005.

Foundation Center "is the most authoritative source of information on private philanthropy in the United States. [They] help grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public better understand the field of philanthropy. [Their] web site is designed to guide you quickly to the information you are looking for—instruction on funding research, help with proposal writing, tools for locating prospective funders, news and research on the field, or a library or training class near you" (sec: New Visitors).

Funds for Learning is an educational technology consulting firm specializing in the federal E-rate program. FFL helps K-12 schools, libraries and businesses benefit from this and other ed-tech funding opportunities designed to get them connected to the Internet.

GrantsAlert.com helps educational organizations to identify funding opportunities.

Grants.gov helps to find and apply for Federal government grants.

Grant Wrangler

ISTE's Funding Resources Page includes a listing of grant sources and how to's for writing and obtaining grants.

Microsoft K-12 Funding Website for technology initiatives. Download the document: Get Your School's Share of the E-Rate, A How-to Guide

Nonprofit Guides  contains "free Web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups. [The] guides are designed to assist established US-based non-profits through the grant-writing process."

Public Education Network Weekly Newsblast: Grant and Funding Information

SchoolGrants.org is now http://www.k12grants.org/ Site contains preK-12 grant opportunities, grant writing tips with sample proposals, newsletters, and links to other online related resources.

Technology Grant News

Techlearning.com Grant and Funding Directories. In the database, you will also find resources for writing grants.

Toshiba America Foundation offers grants for use in projects designed by classroom teachers to improve science and mathematics education for students in grades K-12. 

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology has a listing of technology grant programs, and includes resources on the digital divide, distance learning, evaluation and assessment, internet safety, and more.

Does your school need computers?   Computers for Learning transfers excess Federal computers to nonprofit educational organizations and public, private, parochial, or home schools serving pre-kindergarten through grade 12 students within the U.S. or its territories. Special consideration is given to those with greatest need. Computer for Schools offers certified refurbished computers to schools and non-profits at about 1/3 of the cost of new.

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Part 1: Essential Questions  |  Part 3: Web Page Design  |  Part 4: Multimedia in Projects.