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May 17, 2017 12:10 PM

ISO literacy funding & grants available to public school teachers at all levels.

I am in desperate need of finding a free public resource/repository of funding sources for public school teachers working with literacy curriculums and programs nationwide. Ideally this could be a website, database, spreadsheet etc. that contains grants, funding, assistance and so forth for these teachers involved in working with literacy. These sources can be for specific states, specific school districts etc. The sources can be federal, state, local, private foundations, unions, professional organizations. The primary hope is to find a source that will list these funding origins at a single site with any amount of additional info.

I thank any and everyone in advance.

posted by Heatwole to Education (3 answers total)

Go to your local public or university library and ask if they have access to the Foundation Center databases. It is not a list of open grants, but rather a national directory of all public and private funding sources and grant makers. There are tutorials on how to use the Foundation Center databases to find grant opportunities here.
posted by ananci at 12:46 PM on May 17, 2017

https://maryland.grantwatch.com/cat/22/literacy-grants.html

I have been writing bids and grants for over a decade. I suggest you jump into a grant writing class if you can find one. Nothing will help you find grants better than training to prepare grants.
posted by parmanparman at 3:54 PM on May 18, 2017

The above has a login requirement, I noticed. This is dated but you could contact them to see if they have an updated version: http://hjweinbergfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2015/02/Maryland-Community-Grant-Overview-2015.pdf
posted by parmanparman at 3:58 PM on May 18, 2017