“eSchool News School Funding Center”
This site lists Information on up-to-the-minute grant programs, funding sources, and technology funding. http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/funding/

“Department of Education Forecast of Funding”
This site lists virtually all programs and competitions under which the Department of Education has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards for FY 2004 and provides actual or estimated deadline dates for the transmittal of applications under these programs. The lists are in the form of charts -- organized according to the Department's principal program offices -- and include programs and competitions previously announced, as well as those they plan to announce at a later date. The Department provides regular updates to this site. http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html

Grantmaking at the Department of Education
To aid parties interested in discretionary monies, the Department released an updated "Grantmaking at ED: Answers to Your Questions About the Discretionary Grant Process" (http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/about/grantmaking/), which provides a non-technical summary of the types of grants offered by the agency and how grants are competed and awarded. Indeed, the booklet goes through application, review, award, administration, grant closeout, and audit

AFT’s publication,”How to Get Foundation Funds” is just a click away!
This publication provides information on how to obtain grants your local can use to help implement or enhance school improvement or professional development programs. The Learning Lab - Virtual Classroom section of this program offers tutorials on Establishing a Non Profit Organization, which several of our locals have successfully done in order to receive foundation funding for their educational initiatives.

<<How to Get Foundation Funds.pdf>>
NEA’s Learning and Leadership Grants
This NEA website (http://www.nea foundation.org) provides information, guidelines and application forms for Learning and Leadership Grants funded by Staples. These grants of $5,000.00 are available to groups who organize collegial study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. These grants provide an opportunity for district/university/union collaboration using ER&D research and training, and/or lesson study start up activities. Deadline is February 1^st.

Contact Kathy Buzad at AFT 202-393-6346 or kbuzad@aft.org for any technical assistance and support on grant initiatives supporting educational reform and professional development training.