Current Grant Opportunities

Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program FY 2009 Competitive Grant Announcement

Websites with Grant Information

The following websites contain information on grants, scholarships, and other types of financial support:

• eSchool News online: This online version of a monthly magazine contains a grants section with regularly updated grant, scholarship, professional development, and other funding opportunities for both educators and students.
  
  
  • Email: info@eschoolnews.com
  • Phone: (800) 394-0115
  • News, 7920 Norfolk Avenue, Suite 900, Bethesda, MD 20814



• FastWEB: The largest online scholarship search available, with 400,000 scholarships representing over one billion in scholarship dollars. Provides students with accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants, and fellowships suited to their goals and qualifications at no cost.
  
  
  • Email: webmaster@fastweb.com
  • Phone: (847) 785-8000
  • FastWEB, 2550 Commonwealth Avenue, North Chicago, IL 60064



• The Foundation Center: An independent nonprofit information clearinghouse on grants available throughout the United States with headquarters in New York, and additional libraries in Washington, DC, Atlanta, Cleveland, and San Francisco. The center offers publications, including directories of foundation and corporate grant makers, research advice, custom research, and database searching. The Web site includes online training in grant seeking, proposal writing, and funding research, as well as an online librarian.
  
  
  • Email: library@fdncenter.org
  • Phone: (800) 424-9836 or (212) 620-4230
  • The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003-3076



• GrantsAlert.com: This Web site's goal is to "make life a little easier for those who devote their time to searching for education grants and identifying new funding opportunities for their organizations, schools, districts, consortia, and state education agencies."
  
  
  • Email: jmizereck@grantsalert.com
  • Phone: (850)-385-0488
  • PO Box 38051, Tallahassee, FL 32315-8051



• Grants.gov: Allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies, and encompasses over 900 grant programs offered by the twenty six Federal grant-making agencies. It streamlines the process of awarding over $350 billion annually to state and local governments, academia, not-for-profits, and other organizations.
  
  
  • Email: support@grants.gov
  • Phone: (800) 518-4726
  • 200 Independence Avenue, SW, HHH Building, Room 739F, Washington, DC 20201



• Grantsandfunding.com: Offers a complete listing of all Thompson Publishing Group publications that focus on grant and funding issues. Subscribers of the group's publications have access to a special section that provides resources such as grant deadlines, highlights of funding issues, and links to related Web sites.
  
  
  • Email: service@thompson.com
  • Phone: (800) 964-5815 or (813) 282-8807
  • Thompson Publishing Group, Inc., 1725 K Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006



• SchoolGrants: A collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and obtain special grants for a variety of projects. The site offers fundraising ideas, sample proposals, grant writing tips, and scholarship information.
  
  
  • Email: help@schoolgrants.org

SOURCE: U.S. ED's Migrant Education News Digest--08/25/08