North Dakota Stories | Children and Youth Funding Report

Violence Prevention Program Grants Now Open

Funder: Mary Kay Foundation; Opportunity: 2016 Domestic Violence Shelter Grant Program; Funding Focus: Women, children, crime, domestic violence, housing; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Domestic violence shelters with 501(c)(3) status offering emergency shelter; Funding: Approximately $3 m...

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DoEd Approves States' Plans for Equal Access to Good Educators

The Education Dept. (DoEd) approves the District of Columbia and 17 states' plans to ensure that poor and minority student classrooms are not staffed by inexperienced, unqualified, underperforming or out-of-field teachers. The 17 states and the District of Columbia receiving approval of their plans...

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Final Chance for Arts Midwest Competition

Organizers are reminding potential applicants that the 2015 Big Read grants competition, sponsored by the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest, will be closing soon. Interested parties should send in their applications right away. Deadline: Jan. 27. Middle and high schools can participate...

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Students Can Win Scholarships from Restaurant Chain

Funder: Ronald McDonald House Charities; Opportunity: 2016 U.S. Scholarships; Funding Focus: Disadvantaged youth, education; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Students in need; Funding: Varies, since 1985, more than $48 million in scholarships have been awarded; Deadline: TBA, the competition...

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(EDUCATION) Advocates Express Alarm Over Move to Eliminate Fed Funding Exceptions

Education advocates, such as the Education Trust,express alarm over a proposal by House Republican lawmakers to eliminate regulations on how federal education money is spent. The bill would tear down funding firewalls and instead allow local schools to shift money around as they see fit. The bill,...

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(EDUCATION) Gilder Lehrman Offers Grants/Fellowships

Private Funder: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI); Opportunity: 2011 Affiliate School Program; Funding Focus: Education and American history; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Schools; Funding: Varies (the program is funded by a "We the People" Challenge Grant from the Nation...

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(EDUCATION) DoEd Checking Effectiveness of $64M Homeless Ed Program

Education Dept. officials are reviewing the efficacy of the popular $64 million McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program, which helps ensure that homeless children get a good education. The McKinney-Vento grants are distributed to the states based on their share of DoEd Tit...

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(CHILDRENS HEALTH) Bill Would Fund Anti-Diabetes Demo Grants

Two congressmen reintroduce a bipartisan bill that would provide new discretionary demonstration grants to lower the incidence of gestational diabetes and prevent affected women and their children from later developing Type 2 diabetes. Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Michael Burgess (R-TX) re-introduc...

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(YOUTH) World of Children Offers Humanitarian Awards

Private Funder: World of Children; Opportunity: 2012 annual grants; Funding Focus: Children, youth, health and education; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits which have a sustainable track record; Funding: Up to $50,000 each; Deadline: April 1, 2012 (tentative). Summary: Each year, ...

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(EDUCATION) DoEd's Title I Distribution Formula Highly Flawed

The distribution formula for the $14 billion Title I school improvement grants program is so badly flawed that many smaller schools would have been better off if the Title I poverty formulas never existed, rural school advocates says. Nearly one in four of the schools districts with the highest stu...

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