The FEC encourages, enhances, and empowers children and youth with disabilities, gifts, and talents, helping them to attain their greatest potential. The foundation looks especially favorably upon programs that are small and well-targeted. Funds also can be applied toward tuition for training that will result in new instructional techniques in the classroom. Public and private school educators serving children of all ages may apply for these grants. Community Action Grants provide seed money to individual women, AAUW branches and AAUW state organizations, as well as local community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or nondegree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls.
Funds also support the teacher's professional development.
This web site lists private, non-private, and charitable grant organizations. Contestants, who must be students in grades three through nine in schools in North America are to describe school life on other planets. The contest takes place in three rounds throughout the 2000-2001 school year. This grant program by FamilyPC magazine supports teachers in K-12 public or private schools in the United States who have a unique idea for integrating technology into their curriculum. Grants may be used for computer-related equipment, ancillary products that help accomplish th egoals of the project, or salaries for personnel involved in the project.