Many NSF programs in these areas are funded through the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. Many other NSF Directorates also support programs that integrate science, mathematics, and engineering research and education. Project funding opportunities are easily searched by topic, target, or beneficiary group or agency. The Foundation Center provides an extensive directory and annotated links to more than 1,000 U.S. private foundations, corporate foundations, public charities, and community foundations. The Kellogg Foundation supports programs that seek to nurture and provide opportunities for youth to develop in a healthy way, within the context of their communities, and in keeping with their stage of development.
Programs emphasize prevention over remediation, and early intervention over later reaction.
Current grant making focus of the Annenberg Foundation is on pre-collegiate education, and specifically on public school restructuring and reform, grades K through 12. Areas of particular interest include Public Education K-12, Early Childhood Education in relation to public education at the primary level, and Child Development and Youth Services. The mission of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is to support efforts that promote a just, equitable, and sustainable society. The Spencer Foundation is a private foundation that grants funds to support research that contributes to the understanding of education and improvement of its practice. The Office of Professional Development offers support to the school and individual program areas in the development of strategies for enhancing student enrollment in identified programs through such vehicles as program marketing, external communications and publications, and student customer relations.