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Adopt-a-Classroom

• Teachers can register their classrooms to be "sponsored" by an individual, business or foundation. Adopted classrooms receive $500 worth of credit to purchase classroom items and technology.
• Deadline: Ongoing

Albertsons

• Albertsons gives grants to nonprofit and school programs that meet the following focus areas: hunger relief, health and nutrition.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Allianz Foundation for North America

• The Allianz Foundation for North America empowers young people to shape a secure future by partnering with programs that support youth in developing the skills and perspectives they need to lead independent lives of leadership and public service.
• Deadline: Ongoing

Allstate Foundation

• The foundation's Teen Safe Driving Program works to develop innovative, teen-engaging approaches to help raise awareness of the issues, reduce injuries, and ultimately to help save lives. The program takes a positive approach to addressing the number one killer of teens and making smart driving socially acceptable among teen themselves.
• Deadline: March 30, 2012 7p.m. CST
• Funds: Average grants range from $5,000 to $20,000.

Amateur Athletic Foundation

• The foundation is awarding grants to those that give special attention to groups and communities underserved by traditional sports program including girls, ethnic minorities, and the physically challenged and developmentally disabled.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

American Honda Foundation

• Grants of $10,000 - $80,000 per year will be given to support youth-oriented programs that address cultural, educational, scientific and social concerns currently facing society.
• Deadline: November 1, February 1, May 1 and August 1 for board review

American Association of Physics Teachers

• The American Association of Physics Teachers offers grants to encourage high school teachers to experiment with and improve their teaching practices. AAPT hopes to increase physics enrollment and excitement about the subject.
• Deadline: December 1, 2012
• Funds: $1,000 to be divided among awardees. Each award ranges between $100 and $500.

Amgen Foundation

The Amgen Foundation provides funding for science eduation in the areas of:

• Teacher quality and professional development in math and science - support is given for comprehensive programs that enhance the quality of math and science teachers entering the classroom and support teachers with meaningful professional development opportunities that have a positive impact on student achievement and
• Pivotal hands-on science experiences - support is given for programs that provide students and teachers with opportunities for hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences that significantly impact students' excitement about science and scientific careers.
• Deadline: Rolling for letters of inquiry
• Funds: Grants vary widely and depend upon the scope of the project. The minimum grant is $10,000.

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Bank of the West

• The Bank of the West provides support for education and job training programs by nonprofit organizations and agencies. Priority is given to programs that benefit low-to moderate-income individuals and communities.
• Deadline: None

Baseball Tomorrow Fund

• Major League Baseball seeks to promote the growth of baseball by funding programs, fields and equipment purchases to encourage and maintain youth participation in the game.
• Deadline: January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1

Biogen Idec

• Provides grants of $500 to $2,500 for community-based organizations dedicated to education, community service, healthcare, culture and the arts.
• Deadline: Proposals are reviewed on a quarterly basis

Bridgepoint Education

• Bridgepoint Education provides support in the areas of education, youth, and the military.
• Deadline: Ongoing

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California Casualty

• California Casualty solicits applications for the School Lounge Makeover grant program. The program seeks to help schools transform their school lounges from ordinary to extraordinary.
• Deadline: Jan. 31, April 30, and July 31.
• Funds: $7,500 grants

California Endowment

• The California Endowment awards grants to organizations which support its mission and whose applications are focused on one of the three goals: Access to Health, Culturally Competent Health Systems, and Community Health and Elimination of Health Disparities.
• Deadline: Applications are accepted for review throughout the year

Captain Planet Foundation

• The Captain Planet Foundation seeks to promote and support high-quality educational programs that enable children and youth to understand and appreciate the world through learning experiences that engage them in active, hands-on projects to improve the environment in their schools and communities.
• Deadline: May 31 and Sept. 30
• Funds: Grants up to $2,500. Funder will give preference to applicants that seeks seed funding of $500 or less, and to applicants who have secured at least 50 percent matching or in-king funding for their projects.

Change Happens Foundation

• The Change Happens Foundation provides funding for the development and implementation of innovative technology and progressive ideas to generate a positive force for change.
• Deadline: Ongoing for online letter of inquiry

Charles Schwab Foundation

• The Charles Schwab Foundation provides support for financial literacy and local cultural and social needs.
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Funds: Grants range from $2,500 to $25,000

Chevron

• Chevron seeks to support programs that encourage creative math and science programs for grade levels K-12, and local environmental conservation and education.
• Deadline: Rolling for concept letters
• Funds: Varies by request

Cigna Foundation Targeted Grants

• Cigna provides funding to organizations working in five core areas including obesity awareness and prevention and women, children and family health. Projects seeking funding should demonstrate creativity, responsiveness, ability to be successfully completed, and positive results.
• Deadline: Rolling

Citigroup Foundation

• The Foundation provides grants for financial education programs in three areas - Personal, Small Business and Institution.
• Deadline: Ongoing

Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation

• The Foundation funds grants to provide environmental and arts education opportunities to youth by supporting programs for educators to improve and apply their teaching skills and supporting efforts to advance these programs. Grants range from $5,000 and up to $600,000.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Coca-Cola Foundation

• Grants awarded in three categories: higher education, classroom teaching and learning and global education.
• Deadline: No deadline

Colgate-Palmolive Company

• The Colgate-Palmolive Company provides support to organizations concerned with young people and education.
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Funds: Varies by Request

Comerica Charitable Foundation

• The Comerica Charitable Foundation provides funding for economic self-sufficiency for low and moderate income individuals and families. Scholarships for students with income needs for studies in business, finance and growth industries; access to healthcare and programs supporting diversity and inclusion.
• Deadline: Please see website for deadline dates

Costco Wholesale

• Costco Wholesale provides support for programs focusing on children, education, and health and human services.
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Funds: Generally, Costco does not grant funds of more than 10 percent of the total program budget.

Countess Moira Charitable Foundation

• The Countess Moira Charitable Foundation seeks to aid the well-being of youth anywhere in the world.
• Deadline: Ongoing

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Dart Foundation

• The Dart Foundation provides grants for education (primarily math, science and enginerring) and youth programs; health; disaster relief; and journalism programs that focus on the accuracy of news reporting on scientific and environmental issues.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Dollar General Literacy Foundation

• The Dollar General Literacy Foundation's Youth Literacy Grants program provides funding to schools, public libraries, and non-profit organizations working to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading. Applicants must provide literacy programs for new readers, below-grade-level readers, or readers with learning disabilities.
• Deadline: May 16, 2012
• Funds: Multiple grants of up to $4,000.

Del Monte

• Del Monte solicits entrants for the Teacher Money Cash for Classrooms contest. The contest encourages K-12 grade school teachers to incorporate health eating and living messages into classroom activities.
• Deadline: Registration is slated to begin at the end of July
• Funds: $1,000 awards for the purchase of school supplies and fresh fruit for students.

Dreyer's Foundation

• Dreyer's Foundation provides monetary and in-kind donations to youth in grades PK-12, so students succeed in core academic subjects and graduate to post secondary education and/or vocational training. They also provide support to nonprofit organizations for events. The Small grants vary from $3,000 or less; and in-kind donations of ice cream products and gift certificates/auction items.
• Deadline: 7th day of each month

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eProfessional Association

• eProfessional Association seeks to help organizations with their technology needs through information and technology grants.
• Funds: $450 - $16,000
• Deadline: Ongoing

Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation

• The foundation supports programs in the areas of education, advocacy and the arts focused on adults with disabilities. Grants of $1,000 to $5,000 available.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

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Finish Line Foundation

• The foundation funds programs that benefit athletics or wellness. The applications are received all year long, reviewed quarterly.
• Deadline: Ongoing

Folger Shakespeare Library

• The Folger Shakespeare Library solicits applications for its Teaching Shakespeare Institute. Participants will attend an intensive four-week institute, held in conjunction with Georgetown University, in the summer of 2012.
• Deadline: Applications available in November.
• Funds: Twenty-five educators will be chosen to attend Folger or an intensive four-week institute, pending funding approval by the National endowment for the Humanities.

Follet Corporation

• The Follett Corporation announces the Follett Challenge, which seeks to find the best innovations in school libraries, and to recognize the role librarians play as champions of school programs that drive student achievement.
• Deadline: Applications will be available Feb. 1. Deadline to apply is June 1.

Free Books from First Book National Book Bank

• The organization distributes large quantities of publisher-donated brand-new books to programs serving children from low-income families. The books are free to organizations that are able to pick them up or just $0.35 per book to have them shipped.
• Deadline: Ongoing

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Good Sports

• Good Sports seeks to increase youth participation in sports, recreation, and fitness activities. The organization provides sports equipment, apparel, and footwear to youth organizations offering sports, fitness, and recreational programs to youth in need.
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Funds: In-kind grants that vary by applicant's need.

Great American Salad Bar Project

• Bringing Fresh Fruits into your local Schools - Whole foods is participating with Chef Ann Copper to provide healthy salad bars to schools across the country.

GTECH After School Advantage Program

• The Company will donate up to $15,000 in computers, online technology, software and volunteer hours to each after-school program. It hopes to set up computer centers that can help inner-city children ages 5 to 15 with meaningful and fun learning experiences during after-school hours.
• Deadline: Ongoing

Guitar Center Music Foundation

• Qualifying applicants are established, ongoing and sustainable music programs in the United States, which provide music instruction for people of any age who would not otherwise have the opportunity to make music. The intent of the program must be music instruction, not music appreciation or entertainment, and the participants/students cannot be professional or career musicians.
• Deadline: Ongoing

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Hagen Family Foundation

• The Foundation provides grants to creative and innovative proposals in the following areas: the arts, education, environment, religion and social services.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Harry Chapin Foundation

• Grants available for community education, arts in education programs and other approaches to educating young people, agricultural programs and environmental programs.
• Deadline: Ongoing

Hearst Foundation

• Funds education, health, social service and culture proposals.
• Deadline: Ongoing

Home Depot

• The Home Depots solicits applications for the Building Health Communities Grant Program from organizations using volunteers to improve physical health of their communities.
• Deadline: September 15 and December 15

Hungry for Music

• Hungry for Music provides support for music education and cultural enrichment by acquiring and distributing quality musical instruments to underserved children with willing instructors and a hunger to play.
• Deadline: Grant period opens Jan. 15

HSBC North America

• HSBC supports projects that make a lasting impact by promoting self-sufficiency in education.
• Deadline: Ongoing

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ING

• ING annual teacher contest helps K-12 teachers implement innovative projects in their classrooms. Awards are given for unique educational programs helping improve student achievement, or an innovative curriculum for program idea that has yet to be implemented.
• Deadline: April 30, 2012
• Funds: 100 finalists receive $2,000 each. At least one award will be granted in each state. Additionally, a first-place winner will receive $25,000; second-place, $10,000; and a third place, $5,000.

Institute of Library and Museum Sciences

• A variety of grants ranging in focus from recruiting and training librarians for the 21st century to leadership opportunities.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

International Paper Foundation

• The International Paper Foundation provides funding in areas of company operations for Environment education, Literacy, and Critical community needs.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

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The J.C. Coleman Foundation Inc.

• The J.C. Coleman Foundation provides support for nonprofit programs that implement various educational platforms to inspire and improve the lives of at-risk youth.
• Deadline: Rolling for letters of inquiry
• Funds: In 2010, the foundation provided more than $250,000 in charitable giving.

J.W. and H.M. Goodman Foundation

• The foundation looks for programs that support community outreach projects, education programs emphasizing equal access, environmental conservation or the arts. Grants generally $5,000 or less.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

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Kaiser Permanente Community Benefits Grant

• Kaiser Permanente will support projects, programs or activities that are in alignment with one or more of the following funding priorities: access to healthcare for vulnerable populations, health eating active living, and policy advocacy.
• Deadline: Rolling

Kids Gardening.com grants

• Check the website regularly for grants. Grant opportunities and award amounts vary.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Kids Need to Read

• Kids Need to Read provides books, periodicals, and literacy resources to schools, libraries, and other organizations that administer literacy programs to children and adolescents.
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Funds: In-kind donations of books, periodicals, and literary resources.

Kobo

• Kobo solicites entries for its Read On initiative, which will make a contribution for every 10 million minutes read.
• Deadline: The initiative will go until one trillion minutes have been read.
• Funds: Recipients will receive Read On kits including eReaders, eBooks, and the materials needed to start digital reading programs in their community. Awards range in value from $1,000 to $20,000.

Kroger Company

• The Organization will support only programs that address a clearly identified need in the community and do so with clearly defined goals and objectives.
• Deadline: Ongoing

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Math Moves U

• Math Hero Award Program, sponsored by Raytheon Company, must be full-time teachers who are currently employed and teaching a mathematics curriculum at a middle school or high school in the United States OR volunteers working with an approved math-related nonprofit organization (i.e. MATHCOUNTS®). Nominations can be made by students, parents, colleagues, principals, or volunteers.
• Deadline: May 16, 2012
• Funds: Up to 32 awards of $2,500 each will be granted. In addition, the recipient's school will receive a matching $2,500 grant to be used for enhancing the school's math program.

Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust

• The Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust makes grants to librarians who "promote the free reading of teenagers."
• Deadline: Rolling
• Funds: In 2009, the trust awarded more than $24,000 in charitable grants.

May and Stanley Smith Trust

• The foundation supports programs that serve the needs of the elderly, the disabled, children and the disadvantaged. The grants may be used for general operating support, capacity building, program support, equipment and/or tuition assistance. Grants up to $6,000 available.
• Deadline: Ongoing

McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation

• The McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation offers Academic Enrichment Grants designed to develop in-class and extra-curricular programs that improve students learning that nurture the intellectual, artistic, and creative abilities of children from low-income households.
• Deadline: April 15, 2012
• Funds: Multiple grants of up to $10,000 per year for a maximum of three years.

The Mocking Bird Foundation

• The Mockingbird Foundation provides support for: Projects that encourage and foster creative expression in any musical form (including composition, instrumentation, vocalization, or improvisation), but also recognizes broader and more basic needs within conventional instruction; Music education, which may include the provision of instruments, texts, and office materials, and the support of learning space, practice space, performance space, and instructors/instruction; and Programs which benefit disenfranchised groups, including those with low skill levels, income, or education, with disabilities or terminal illnesses; and in foster homes, shelters, hospitals, prisons, or other remote or isolate situations.
• Deadline: August 1, for letters of inquiry.
• Funds: Grants range from $100 to $5,000.

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NASA Explorers School Project

• NASA seeks schools to become part of the NASA Explorer Schools project. The project is a classroom-based gateway for middle schools (grades 4-8) and high school (grades 9-12) providing authentic learning experiences inspired by NASA's unique missions.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates
• Funds: The best teachers and schools will be recognized with authentic NASA experiences such as field center training, research opportunities, and flights aboard a reduced-gravity aircraft.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

• The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics seeks applicants for a professional development scholarship emphasizing the history of mathematics. Support is provided for course work, creating classroom activities, or preparing a presentation to colleagues.
• Deadline: May 4, 2012
• Funds: A scholarship with a maximum of $3,000

National Weather Association

• The National Weather Association's Sol Hirsch Education Fund Grants are awarded annually to teachers/educators of grades K-12 to help improve the education of their students, school, and/or community in the science of meteorology.
• Deadline: June 1, 2012
• Funds: Up to seven $750 grants each school year.

NFIE Innovation, Learning and Leadership Grants

• The NEA Foundation offers a number of different grants. Please check website for grant availability.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Nikebiz

• Nikebiz supports nonprofit organizations dedicated to creating social change through sport, and for disaster relief efforts around the world.
• Deadline: Rolling
• Funds: In-kind product donations

NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers (DOC)

• The U.S. Department of Commerce will provide selected teachers hands-on activities, lectures, tours, and visits with National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists and engineers at the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, Md.
• Deadline: March 21, 2012
• Funds: Up to $4,000 per teacher.

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Oriental Trading Company Inc.

• The Oriental Trading Company Inc. provides support to organizations and programs that serve to improve the lives of children and youth, with an emphasis on education and youth programs.
• Deadline: Rolling

Owens Corning Foundation

• The Owens Corning Foundation provides support for education, health and human services, arts and culture, and civic and community initiatives.
• Deadline: Rolling

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RGK Foundation

• The RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health. The Foundation's primary interests within education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Rite Aid Foundation

• The Rite Aid Foundation, Founded in July 2011, is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to helping people in the communities Rite Aid serves lead happier, healthier lives. The Rite Aid Foundation provides funding to support programs that focus on health and wellness in the communities the company services.
• Deadline: April 1, 2012
• Funds: In 2009, the foundation awarded grants totaling more than a $1.3 million.

Roads to Reading

• Roads to Reading seeks applications for its Annual Competitive Book Donation Program. The program donates books to literacy programming in small and rural communities.
• Deadline: March 30, 2012
• Funds: In-kind donations of books suitable for ages 6 months to young adult.

Rob Dyrdek Foundation

• The Rob Dyrdek Foundation solicits applications for its Sk8 4 Life Program. The program seeks to create and maintain healthy and sustainable communities by providing youth with free skateboards to both exercise and stay physically and mentally fit.
• Deadline: Rolling
• Funds: In-kind donations of skateboards

Rockefeller Family Fund

• The Rockefeller Family Funds programs in the areas of: Citizen Participation and Government Accountability, Economic Justice for Women, the Environment, Institutional Responsiveness and Self-Sufficiency. Please see Fund's Frequently Asked Questions page (linked under title) for details on how to write a Letter of Inquiry and other important information.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Rockwell Collins

• Rockwell Collins provides support for: education with an emphasis in science, technology, engineering, and math; and arts and culture with an emphasis in youth development.
• Deadline: September 1, 2012
• Funds: in 2009, the company awarded more than $4.8 million in charitable grants.

Red Robin Foundation

• The Red Robin Foundation requests entrants for it U-ACT Program, in which schools and their students participate in program that promotes kindness.
• Deadline: October 1 for school registration. April 8 is the deadline to submit U-ACT entries.
• Funds: Grants range from $1,200 to $15,000.

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Samsung

• Samsung seeks proposals from teachers who wish to receive a new document camera that operates in low light. The grant program is part of Samsung's mission to upgrade the quality of technology in American schools.
• Deadline: May 1, 2012
• Funds: Fifty SAMCAM860 document cameras

San Diego Teachers' Fund

• The San Diego Foundation has launched its 2012 San Diego Teachers' Fund Program. The mission of the San Diego Teachers' Fund is to increase student achievement by assisting the many outstanding and dedicated teachers in San Diego County. This program will support the development and implementation of multi-disciplinary classroom projects that address student needs and increase teaching effectiveness.
• Deadline: May 4, 2012
• Funds: Grants of up to $1,000 will be awarded.
• Eligibility: San Diego County public school teachers (including publicly funded charter schools) who teach students in grades K-12 are eligible to apply. Projects must be cross-curricular in nature and incorporate at least two subject areas (i.e. art/math, science/literature, etc.). Projects must be implemented in the 2012-2013 academic year with funding for educational purposes only.

Scentsy Family Foundation

• The Scentsy Family Foundation provides charitable contributions or sponsorships for community-based events in which people work together to further a worthwhile cause.
• Deadline: Please see website

Sony Corporation of America

• The Sony Corporation of America provides funding for: arts education; arts and cultural initiatives; health and human services; civic and community outreach; education; and volunteerism. In the area of education, Sony seeks to support organizations that bring commitment and innovation to the task of strengthening education at the primary and secondary school levels, with consideration also given to selected higher education initiatives.
• Deadline: Ongoing
• Funds: Grants vary by requests and project scope

State Farm Companies Foundation

• The State Farm Foundation funds programs that support Service-Learning, Systemic Improvement and Teacher excellence.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Stuart Foundation

• The foundation has ongoing opportunities for teachers to gain new knowledge and skills.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

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Toshiba America Foundation

• The foundation encourages projects with potential for improving classroom teaching and learning in science and mathematics.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

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U.S. Cellular

• U.S. Cellular announced that the Calling All Communities campaign will return in September. The campaign challenges schools to rally community support for the chance to enhance students' learning opportunities any way they see fit.
• Deadline: Official rules for the 2011 campaign are slated to be released in September

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Verizon Foundation

• The Verizon Foundation is accepting grant applications from tax-exempt organization working in the area of education. Literacy, healthcare and accessibility, and others.
• Deadline: Rolling
• Funds: Grants frequently range from $5,000 to $10,000

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Walgreen's Company

• Walgreen funds those organizations with a specific focus on improving: Access to health and wellness, pharmacy education programs and mentoring initiatives.
• Deadline: Please visit website for deadline dates

Walmart Foundation

• The Walmart Foundation supports a number of initiatives, including those that address the educational needs of underserved young people ages 12-25. The foundation supports programs implemented in multiple sites across the country or that are innovative and ready for replication nationally.
• Deadline: None
• Funds: $250,000 and above.

Wells Fargo

• Wells Fargo provides funding to organizations that support community development, education and human services.
• Deadline: Ongong (recommended to apply 3 months prior to need)

Whole Foods Market

• Whole Foods Market provides support to meet the needs of the local community. Each store determines what those needs are.
• Deadline: Varies

Wild Ones Natural Landscapers

• The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program sponsored by Wild Ones Natural Landscapers gives small monetary grants for the purpose of establishing outdoor learning centers. Centers should reflect benefits of using native plants in the landscape and promote biodiversity and environmentally sound practices.
• Deadline: October 15, 2012
• Funds: $100 to $500 per award to purchase seeds and plants.

Worth Ave. Group

• The Worth Ave. Group solicits entrants for its Technology in Education Grant Giveaway Program. The program seeks to advance educational opportunities with technology across K-12 schools nationwide.
• Deadline: March 31, 2012
• Deadline: The grand prize winning school will receive a $25,000 technology grant, and the Best Teacher in America will receive an iPad 2 in addition to 30 iPod Touch devices for their classroom. Runners-up receive $1,000 grants and an iPad2.

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Zane's Foundation

• Zane's Foundation Inc. seeks to help families attain some of those unique things that the special needs child should have to allow for a more productive life. The foundation provides support to special needs children through funds designated for respite care, therapies, or other assistive equipment.
• Deadline: Rolling