Below is a searchable glossary of grant programs from the federal goverment funding programs and foundations that provide funding for distance learning. Please check the Federal Register for the official notice of the availabiltity of funds for these programs since many continue year to year. Although the deadline may have passed, these dates could help you plan for next year.
| Funding Web Sites | |
| The American Distance Education Consortium provides links to organizations, foundations and governmental agencies categorized by topic areas | |
| COS Funding Opportunities - a database of announcements for grants, fellowships, awards and more from around the world, comprising more than 24,000 records worth over $33 billion. Sponsors include private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations and more. Funding is available for work in the disciplines of physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health and medicine, arts and humanities. | |
| eSchoolNews - a source for K-12 and higher education grants | |
| Federal Register - from the Government Printing Office | |
| Forecast of Funding Opportunities Under the Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs for Fiscal Year 2007 - lists virtually all programs and competitions under which the Department of Education has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards and provides actual or estimated deadline dates for the transmittal of applications under these programs. | |
| The Foundation Center Online - an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse that collects information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects | |
| Fundsnet Online Services - links to online financial resources | |
| Grants.gov - allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies | |
| Grants from the Department of Education - grants and contracts information | |
| Grants Web | |
| The School Funding Center - a database of grants available to U.S. schools. The School Funding Newsletter is a free printed publication mailed monthly to subscribers. Registered Web site users may do a free search of the grants database. Fee based grant writing services is also available. | |
| SRA International Grants Web - compiled by the nonprofit Society of Research Administrators International. Includes private and government funding and resources. |
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Advanced Placement Incentive Program Grants:Advanced Placement Incentive Program Grants support activities to increase the participation of low-income students in both pre-AP and AP courses and tests. Grants support the development, enhancement, or expansion of AP courses, including pre-AP courses aligned with AP courses in mathematics, science, English, and other subject areas. Allowable activities include: (1) professional development for teachers; (2) curriculum development; (3) the purchase of books and supplies; and (4) other activities directly related to expanding access to and participation in AP courses and tests for low-income students.
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Advanced Technological Education (ATE):With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways to two-year colleges from secondary schools and from two-year colleges to four-year institutions; and other activities. A secondary goal is articulation between two-year and four-year programs for K-12 prospective teachers that focus on technological education. The program also invites proposals focusing on applied research relating to technician education. Web site Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date : April 23, 2009 (Preliminary proposals are optional, but strongly recommended, especially for institutions or departments that have not previously submitted to the ATE program.) Full Proposal Deadline Date : October 15, 2009 |
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation:The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Learning Outside the Classroom funds distance learning programs around the country. The foundation has no deadlines or standard application forms. Often a brief letter of inquiry, rather than a fully developed proposal, is an advisable first step for an applicant. Web Site |
America's Media Makers:Grants for America’s Media Makers support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. Grants for America’s Media Makers should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public. NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects: Development Grants and Production Grants. Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production. These grants cover a wide range of activities that include, but are not limited to, meetings and individual consultations with scholars, research, preliminary interviews, preparation of program scripts, designs for interactivity and digital distribution, and the creation of partnerships for outreach activities and public engagement with the humanities. Development grants should culminate in the refinement of a project’s humanities ideas, a script, or a design document for (or a prototype of) digital media components or projects. NEH encourages radio, television, and digital media projects that: -- Combine radio or television programs with complementary projects using emerging technologies, museum exhibitions, reading and discussion programs, and other formats that expand and enhance programs’ humanities content, deepen the audiences’ experience of the content, engage audiences in new ways, and expand the distribution of programs; -- Advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research for public audiences, teachers, students, and scholars; -- Culminate in products such as DVDs, Web sites, games, virtual environments, streaming video, and podcasts, as well as user-generated content; -- Simultaneously produce a broadcast program and interactive companion content in order to extend the educational experience of the program’s audience, use resources efficiently, and keep the humanities ideas at the center of the project as the broadcast program and the interactivity are designed; -- Engage public audiences interactively in exploring humanities ideas and questions by using new ways to contextualize, interpret, and distribute content; -- Result in large-scale, collaborative programs featuring multiple formats; and -- Build new programs around previously funded NEH projects, using complementary formats that will add new dimensions to the original project and take advantage of new formats and technologies to reach audiences that were not served by the original project. Web site Application Deadline: Aug. 13, 2010 |
American Honda Foundation Grants:The American Honda Foundation makes grants of $10,000 to $100,000 to K-12 schools, colleges, universities, trade schools, and others for programs that benefit youth (through 21 years old) and scientific education. The foundation seeks programs that are: dreamful (imaginative), scientific, creative, humanistic, youthful, innovative, and forward thinking. Web Site  Application Deadlines: Nov. 1, Feb. 1, May 1 and Aug. 1 |
Arthur Vining Davis Foundation:The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation provides grants to strengthen private four-year liberal arts institutions with a focus on the humanities, science and math. The foundation also helps fund innovative uses of public television (including computer online efforts) to enhance educational outreach in schools and communities. Web Site |
AT&T Foundation:The AT&T Foundation provides funding to projects that demonstrate effective and innovative uses of technology to support families, schools and communities. Grant proposals are considered as they are received and awarded as long as funds are available. Applicants should contact the AT&T Regional Contributions Office in their area. Web Site |
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to help community organizations and libraries increase their access to and use of communications technologies. Web Site |
Broadband Initiatives Program:Rural Utilities Services is establishing the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) which may extend loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations to facilitate broadband deployment in rural areas. The Recovery Act requires that 75 percent of a BIP-funded area be in a rural area that “lacks sufficient access to high speed broadband service to facilitate rural economic development.”13 Additionally, the Recovery Act mandates that priority be given to projects which: a. give end users a choice of providers; b. serve the highest proportion of rural residents that lack access to broadband service; c. are projects of current or former RUS borrowers (Title II borrowers); and d. are fully funded and ready to start once Recovery Act funding is received. BIP application scoring criteria awards projects that implement these priorities. Amount to be Awarded in this July 2009 NOFA: $2.4 billion – $1.2 billion for Last Mile Projects, $400 million for grants for Remote Area Projects and $800 million for loans or loan/grant combinations for Non-Remote Projects Applications Accepted: July 14 - August 14, 2009 Web site |
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program:NTIA is establishing the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) which makes available grants for deploying broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas in the United States, enhancing broadband capacity at public computer centers, and promoting sustainable broadband adoption projects. In facilitating the expansion of broadband communications services and infrastructure, both programs will advance the objectives of the Recovery Act to spur job creation and stimulate long-term economic growth and opportunity. Priorities: a. To provide access to broadband service to consumers residing in unserved areas of the country; b. To provide improved access to broadband service to consumers residing in underserved areas of the country; c. To provide broadband access, education, awareness, training, equipment, and support to community anchor institutions (e.g., schools, libraries, medical facilities), or organizations and agencies serving vulnerable populations (e.g., low-income, unemployed, aged), or job-creating strategic facilities located in state- or federally-designated economic development areas; d. To improve access to, and use of, broadband service by public safety agencies; and e. To stimulate the demand for broadband, economic growth, and job creation. Of this amount, at least $200 million will be made available for competitive grants for expanding public computer center capacity. In addition, at least $250 million will be available for competitive grants for innovative programs to encourage sustainable adoption of broadband services. Up to $350 million is available from the Recovery Act to fund the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program authorized by the Broadband Data Improvement Act and to support the development and maintenance of a nationwide broadband map for use by policymakers and consumers. A forthcoming NOFA will outline policies and procedures for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. BTOP funds are available through three categories of eligible projects: Broadband Infrastructure, Public Computer Centers, and Sustainable Broadband Adoption. The Broadband Infrastructure category consists of two components Last Mile and Middle Mile - and will fund projects to deliver broadband access to unserved and underserved areas. The Public Computer Center category will fund projects that expand public access to broadband service and enhance broadband capacity at entities, such as community colleges and public libraries, that permit the public to use these computing centers. The Sustainable Broadband Adoption category will fund innovative projects that promote broadband demand, including projects focused on providing broadband education, awareness, training, access, equipment or support, particularly among vulnerable population groups where broadband technology has traditionally been underutilized. Amount to be Awarded in this July 2009 NOFA: $1.6 billion – $1.2 billion for Broadband Infrastructure , $50 million for grants for Public Computer Center, and $150 million for loans or loan/grant combinations for Non-Remote Projects Applications Accepted: July 14 - August 14, 2009 Web site |
Business and International Education (BIE) Program:The BIE Program provides grants to enhance international business education programs and to expand the capacity of the business community to engage in international economic activities. Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education that have entered into agreements with business enterprises, trade organizations, or associations that are engaged in international economic activity -- or a combination or consortium of these enterprises, organizations, or associations -- for the purposes of pursuing the activities authorized under this program. Estimated Range of Awards: $50,000-$95,000 Estimated Average Size of Awards: $86,080 Estimated Number of Awards: 25 Web site Application Deadline: January 8, 2010 |
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Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success:Application Deadline: July 30, 2010 Web site |
Challenge Grants in United States History and Culture:This grant opportunity is designed to help institutions and organizations strengthen their ability to explore significant themes and events in American history, so as to advance our understanding of how -- since the nation’s founding -- these events have shaped and been shaped by American identity and culture. NEH seeks to support a range of approaches to the American experience: for example, approaches might explore significant events in America’s history, its democratic institutions, the political principles on which the nation is founded, or the complicated mix of peoples and cultures that have formed America. Also welcome are proposals that seek support for the study of the history and culture of the United States in international contexts rather than in isolation -- proposals that explore relationships with other nations and cultures that have profoundly affected the course of United States history. NEH also welcomes proposals for programming at America’s historic places (e.g., historic sites, neighborhoods, communities, or larger geographical regions). Web site Application Deadline: Feb. 3, 2010 |
Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals:The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act) establishes a number of incentives to advance the appropriate use of health information technology. These include the provisions of Medicare and Medicaid incentives to eligible professionals (EPs) and hospitals for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), which in turn will assist in achieving the. goal of EHR utilization for all Americans by 2014. To achieve the vision of a transformed health system through the use of health information technology (HIT) can facilitate, there are three critical short-term prerequisites: • Clinicians and hospitals must acquire and implement certified, interoperable EHRs in a way that fully integrates these tools into the care delivery process; • Technical, legal, and financial supports are needed to enable information to flow securely to wherever it is needed to support health care and population health; and, • A skilled workforce needs to support the adoption of EHRs, exchange of health information among health care providers and public health authorities, and the redesign of workflows within health care settings to gain the quality and efficiency benefits of EHRs, while maintaining individual privacy and security. To better understand the workforce needs created by HITECH, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) convened a panel of technical experts, including educators and industry representatives. The experts identified the competencies required by six specific HIT workforce roles, which will be critical as providers begin to implement EHRs in large numbers, and for which training can be completed in six months or less if individuals bring appropriate backgrounds to the training. These roles are: • Practice workflow and information management redesign specialists, • Clinician/practitioner consultants, • Implementation support specialists, • Implementation managers, • Technical/software support staff, and • Trainers. Individuals in all six of the specific HIT workforce roles above will be prepared with the skills necessary to assist the regional extension centers in accelerating the adoption, implement and meaningful use health information technology. Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC). The HITRC will analyze and support national efforts to provide technical assistance and develop or recognize best practices to support and accelerate efforts to adopt, implement, and effectively utilize health IT that allows for the electronic exchange and use of information in compliance with applicable standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria. Individuals trained via the participating community colleges will have the skills needed to translate the findings of the HITRC into the daily operations of providers offices and hospitals. State Health Information Exchange Program. Through this program, States, or their designated entity, will develop plans for coordinating health information exchange (HIE) planning and implementation at the state-level. This will create opportunities in each region for trainees to engage in the implementation of the HIE plans as technical staff working on behalf of the state, or with individual providers and hospitals, to help facilitate exchange at the micro-level. Expected Number of Awards: 5 Estimated Total Program Funding: $70,000,000 Web site Application Deadline: Jan 22, 2010 |