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Toyota Offers Classroom Kits for Dream Car Art Contest

Teachers can obtain free classroom art kids from Toyota Financial Services (TFS) to help their students design entries for the 2016 worldwide Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, designed to inspire creativity in youth and encourage an interest in the automotive industry. Contest Deadline: Feb. 1. Judgin...

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(SPECIAL EDUCATION) Advocates Rise in Support of Bill Increasing IDEA Funding

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is staunchly supporting a new Senate bill aimed at increasing the federal share of special education funding up to 40% by 2021. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced S 1403, the proposed Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Full Fund...

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(EDUCATION) Walmart Entities Launch New Classroom Grants

Walmart, Sam's Club, and the Walmart Foundation launch a new program called Teacher Rewards, which will provide more than $4 million to 40,000 teachers across the United States. The Teacher Rewards program focuses on schools with the greatest needs. Local participating stores will choose one K-8 s...

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(SPECIAL EDUCATION) DoEd Sets Aside $11M for Regional Centers

Agency: Education Dept. (DoEd) (Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services) (Nat'l Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research, NIDRR); Program: Disability Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP): Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Nat'l Network Regional Centers (CFDA Num...

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(COMMUNITY SERVICE) Kirby Foundation Supports Youth, Education Efforts

Private Funder: F.M. Kirby Foundation; Opportunity: 2011 grants; Funding Focus: Education, health and medicine, the arts and humanities, civic and public affairs, welfare and youth; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: The foundation distributed $18.1 million in grants last ...

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(EDUCATION) Lorrie Otto Provides Seeds Money for Education

Private Funder: Wild Ones andLorrie Otto; Opportunity: 2011-2012 Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grants; Funding Focus: Education and the environment; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Schools, nature centers or other nonprofit educational organizations; Funding: Awards up to $500 each;Deadli...

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(CHILDRENS WELFARE) Half-Million Could Lose Food Assistance under House 2012 Budget

The National Anti-Hunger Organizations, a nutrition advocacy group, worries that proposed cuts in the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program (WIC) for FY 2012 could cause between 325,000-475,000 low-income young children and pregnant women to be denied WIC's food packages. Appropriators in ...

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(PUBLIC SAFETY) DOJ Offers Awards for DV Initiatives

Agency: Justice Dept. (Office of Violence Against Women, OVW); Program: Engaging Men in Preventing Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Program (CFDA Number: 16.014) (Funding Opportunity Number: OVW-2011-2902); Eligibility: Governments, tribes and nonprofits with or witho...

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(CHILDRENS HEALTH) HHS Provides $2.2M in 'Circle of Care' Grants

Agency: Health & Human Services Dept. (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Admin.); Program: Circles of Care V: Infrastructure Development for Children's Mental Health Systems in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Communities (CFDA Number: 93.243) (Funding Opportunity Number: SM-11-007); Elig...

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(FY 2011) Details Emerging in Stopgap Budget Bill

Details are beginning to emerge for the stopgap budget bill brokered over the weekend that will cut about $38 billion in spending for FY 2011. The White House says the budget deal, which still has to be ratified by both chambers of Congress this week, makes deep cuts across a series of federal prog...

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