Who doesn't need more money to fund their classroom wish list? Well, I want to share some info with you I learned about at the GaSTEM conference from a 1st grade teacher in Rome City Schools at their STEM certified Elm Street Elementary School. Mrs. Greenway is a 1st grade teacher and her students are entrepeneurs who run their own business from her classroom (along with the other 1st grade classes). You can check them out on the web! Sugar Kids Beauty sells sugar scrubs and bath salts online, at various events, & at local businesses in Rome. To fund many of the start up costs (and tons of other projects that Mrs. Greenway has going on in her classroom), she has found lots of information on grants that she shared. Listed below are some of her favorite ways to get funding for her class.
$200 Right now - before Christmas Break even!! DEADLINE 11/11
www.rootsandshoots.org/minigrant
There is only one prerequisite for this grant and that is to use the link provided to create a map of our community with your students. Fill out the application with a focus on that community map relating to the project you'd like to fund & Mrs. Greenway says they fund all who apply. Easy $200 for your class and have it before Christmas break! You can apply for this grant once each year!
Dollar General Literacy Grant
http://www2.dollargeneral.com/dgliteracy/Pages/grant_programs.aspx
Awards grants up to $4000 for literacy projects. Lots of winners! Grant application begins January 2017!
Kids In Need
http://www.kinf.org/programs/grants/
Similar mini-grant to what is listed above! Fall dedaline has passed but keep this in mind!
GetEdFunding
www.getedfunding.com
Find info on TONS of grants & save your application so that you can copy and paste for other grants. Think outside the box and how to tie in what you want for your classroom to different subjects and standards.
DonorsChoose
www.donorschoose.org
GREAT resource for getting projects under $400 funded. The website boasts that 90% of all projects under $400 are fully funded. Will require an account & when funded, may involve sending student thank you notes (w prepaid postage from the website). Often have donors that will match donations received to help fund your projects faster.
STEMGeorgia
www.stemgeorgia.org
Shows a running list of contests and grants that are available.
$200 Right now - before Christmas Break even!! DEADLINE 11/11
www.rootsandshoots.org/minigrant
There is only one prerequisite for this grant and that is to use the link provided to create a map of our community with your students. Fill out the application with a focus on that community map relating to the project you'd like to fund & Mrs. Greenway says they fund all who apply. Easy $200 for your class and have it before Christmas break! You can apply for this grant once each year!
Dollar General Literacy Grant
http://www2.dollargeneral.com/dgliteracy/Pages/grant_programs.aspx
Awards grants up to $4000 for literacy projects. Lots of winners! Grant application begins January 2017!
Kids In Need
http://www.kinf.org/programs/grants/
Similar mini-grant to what is listed above! Fall dedaline has passed but keep this in mind!
GetEdFunding
www.getedfunding.com
Find info on TONS of grants & save your application so that you can copy and paste for other grants. Think outside the box and how to tie in what you want for your classroom to different subjects and standards.
DonorsChoose
www.donorschoose.org
GREAT resource for getting projects under $400 funded. The website boasts that 90% of all projects under $400 are fully funded. Will require an account & when funded, may involve sending student thank you notes (w prepaid postage from the website). Often have donors that will match donations received to help fund your projects faster.
STEMGeorgia
www.stemgeorgia.org
Shows a running list of contests and grants that are available.