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After School Alliance Foundations

Seeds for Education Grant Program

The program gives small monetary grants to schools, nature centers, and other nonprofit and not-for-profit places of learning in the United States with a site available for a stewardship project.

Who’s eligible: Teachers who have developed projects to enrich the learning environment and provide aesthetic and environmental benefits for their students.

What it funds: The program encourages teachers using the funding to create learning opportunities by enhancing their schoolyards with nature trails, butterfly gardens, prairies, woodland wildflower preserves, and other similar projects to inspire valuable life skills like patience and teamwork.

How to applySFE Application

 

STEM Connector

STEMconnector® is both a resource and a service, designed to link “all things STEM” through a comprehensive website that connects national, state and local STEM entities. The STEM Directory contains profiles of over 3,700 STEM-related organizations, including foundations and philanthropic organizations.  Profiles contain a general overview of the foundation and a description of its STEM education initiatives. For example, afterschool and summer and extended learning time are two of The Wallace Foundation’s key areas for which their organization provides funding.

[source: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org]

 

Tom Shaw

Technical Education Post, Online Publisher

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