Grants and Funding Opportunities

To help educators find grants and funding opportunities, Schoolcraft Publishing has complied a list of some currently available grants that your school may be eligible to apply for. To search for additional funding use the resources listed below or check your state's website for local funding opportunities.

Additional Resources / Websites for funding opportunites:

Career and Technical Education Trust (Rhode Island Department of Education)

Application Deadline: Rolling application submission process
Expected Number of Awards: Not Provided
Award Ceiling: $50,000
Award Floor: Not Provided
Background Info: The Career and Technical Education Trust is soliciting applications to provide funding to schools for up to $50,000 in order to meet the employer developed standards adopted by the Career and Technical Education Board of Trustees. To ensure that funding has the greatest impact, grants awarded will support one-time expenses related to teacher training, infrastructure expenses tied to creating or expanding a program that prepares students to meet the employer developed standards.
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American Honda Foundation

Application Deadline: Yearly on: February 1^st, May 1^st, August 1^st
Expected Number of Awards: 27 annually
Award Ceiling: $75,000
Award Floor: $20,000
Background Info: The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies. This grant is to help meet the needs of American society in the areas of education, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the environment, job training and literacy.
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National Science Foundation

Application Deadline:
August 8^th, 2018
Second Wednesday in August, Annually Thereafter
Expected Number of Awards:
Exploratory Awards: 2-4
Strategiess Awards: 6-12
SPrEaD (Successful Project Expansion and Dissemination) Awards: 1-2
Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
Award Floor: $400,000
Background Info: The Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program supports projects that advance the knowledge base and increase capacity within the professional communities of researchers, scientists, and educators who support STEM learning and education pathways to occupations in science, technology, engineering, an dmathematics (STEM), and information and communications technologies (ICT).
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The Meemic Foundation Grants (Michigan, Wisconsin, & Illinois)

Application Deadline:
Jan. 1^st - Mar. 31^st
Jul. 1^st - Sept. 30^th
Apr. 1^st - Jun. 30^th
Oct. 1^st - Dec. 31^st
Expected Number of Awards: Not Provided
Award Ceiling: $500
Award Floor: Not Provided
Background Info: Grants are available for a variety of programs including STEM and Technology.
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Gene Haas Foundation

Application Deadline: Not Provided
Expected Number of Awards: Not Provided
Award Ceiling: Not Provided
Award Floor: Not Provided
Background Info: Gene's commitment to the importance of US manufacturing has incited him to grow his personal foundation and direct his foundation board to focus on manufacturing education in the form of scholarships for CNC machinist training.
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Advanced Technological Education (ATE)

Application Deadline: Not Provided
Expected Number of Awards: Not Provided
Award Ceiling: Not Provided
Award Floor: Not Provided
Background Info: 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 industry to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels.
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Motorola Solutions Foundation

Application Deadline: Friday, early 2018. Official deadline to follow.
Expected Number of Awards: Not Provided
Award Ceiling: Not Provided
Award Floor: Not Provided
Background Info: The foundation focuses on supporting programs that advance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and preparing our next generation of innovators.
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