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Agencies Clarify Rights of Parents with Disabilities

Responding to complaints, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and HHS jointly issue a parental right guidance, emphasizing that there is no legal reason for children to be taken from their parents just because a parent has a disability.  HHS also noted that people with disabilities should not face...

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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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(HOMELESS) Bank of New York Mellon Foundation Offers Community Support

Private Funder: Bank of New York Mellon Foundation; Opportunity: 2012 Charitable Giving Program; Funding Focus: Community development, the workforce and homelessness; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: Varies;Deadline: Rolling. Summary: The Bank of New York Mellon Foundat...

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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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(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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(PUBLIC SAFETY) DOJ Offers Grants to Prevent Youth Human Trafficking

Agency: Justice Dept. (Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, OJJDP); Program: Program to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE)/Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) (CFDA Number: 16.730) (Funding Opportunity Number: OJJDP-2011-3062); Eligibility: Public and private colleges...

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(FUNDING FORECAST) DoEd To $3.7M to Promote Charter Schools

Agency: Education Dept. (Office of Innovation & Improvement); Program: Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grants to Non-State Educational Agencies for Planning, Program Design, and Implementation and for Dissemination (CFDA Number: 84.282 B&C); Eligibility: Educational agencies in states with a s...

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(REGIONAL FUNDING) Japan Foundation Center Offers Education Grants

Private Funder: Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP); Opportunity: 2011 Education Grants Program; Funding Focus: K-12 education; Geographic Focus: Regional (AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NE, NC, ND, OH, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WV and WI); Eligibility: School...

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(ARTS) Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Provides Visual Arts Grants

Private Funder: Creative Capital Foundation/Warhol Foundation (CCF/WF); Opportunity: Arts Writers Grant Program; Funding Focus: The arts; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Artists and nonprofits; Funding: Up to $50,000 each; Deadline: June 8. Summary: These grants support individual writers ...

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(NUTRITION) Whole Foods Sponsors School Garden Grants

Private Funders: Yes to Seed Fund and Whole Foods Market; Opportunity: Seed Fund Grants and Starter Garden Grants; Funding Focus: Nutrition, education; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: K-12 schools; Funding: Five Seed Fund Grants of $2,000 each to schools in each of five participating Whole ...

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