Grants & Professional Development Information
As a service to our dedicated educators and providers, PASA compiles some of the latest after-school grant and professional development opportunities available both nationally and locally.
Professional Development Opportunities
Winter/Spring 2012 Professional Development Calendar
March 16, 2012, 8:30am-12:30pm
Rhode Island College
Due to the overwhelming response to the December mini-conferences, RIASPA and PASA have teamed up to offer an additional opportunity with a specific focus on STEM program content and inquiry-based learning practice. This no-frills, half-day conference will feature workshops centered around hands-on STEM learning, inquiry exploration, and training and youth development practice for effective hands-on programming.
Grant Opportunities
Mystic Seaport: Educational Outreach Programs
Mystic Seaport, located right over the Rhode Island border in Connecticut, offers outreach programs where they come to you! And there even have grant money available for such programs. In addition, funds are also available for guided educational tours at the Seaport. If you are interested, email Director of Education Sarah Cahill explaining the percentage of students at your school/program who receive free/reduced price lunch, and that percentage will be taken off of your price. To learn more about all of the Seaport's educational programs, download the full Education Brochure.
Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation
Brown Rudnick's Community Grants Program subsidizes small projects designed to improve inner-city education in Boston, Hartford, Providence, New York, or Washington, D.C., within the coming year. In keeping with the foundation's 2008 focus, proposals aimed at helping to reduce public school absenteeism and dropout rates are of particular interest. The applicant must be a "frontline educational worker" who is involved in the education field or a related field in one of the communities eligible for foundation grants. The proposed recipient must be a nonprofit organization or tax-exempt organization (e.g., a public school) that is willing to accept the grant and use it in the required manner. Maximum award: $2000. Open Deadline.
The Coca-Cola Foundation
The Coca-Cola Foundation aims to make a greater impact on the communities around the world by being responsive to the citizenship priorities of the communities in which we live and work. The Coca-Cola Company’s renewed strategy focuses on global pillars where we can make a unique and sustainable difference: water stewardship, healthy active lifestyles, community recycling, and education. Open Deadline.
Fender Music Foundation Grants
The Fender Music Foundation accepts electronic grant applications throughout the year. Qualifying applicants are established, ongoing and sustainable music programs in the United States, which provide music instruction for people of any age who would not otherwise have the opportunity to make music. Almost all of the awarded grants are for in-school music classes, in which the students make music, after school music programs that are not run by the school, and music therapy programs, in which the participants make the music. Grants awarded nationally. Maximum award: $5,000. Open Deadline.
GTECH After School Advantage
The GTECH After School Advantage Program is a national community investment program, which provides non-profit community agencies and public schools with state-of-the-art computer labs. These computer centers are designed to provide inner-city children aged five to 15 with a meaningful, yet fun, learning experience during the critical after-school hours, in a safe environment. This initiative is meant to provide an otherwise unavailable educational experience and bridge the digital divide among at-risk children. It is currently estimated that there will be over 115 After School Advantage computer centers established throughout the United States by the end of 2008. GTECH will contribute, on average, $15,000 to each site. Open Deadline.
Jenny’s Heroes
Jenny's Heroes provides grants to fund projects that promise long-term community benefits. Through the fifty grant recipients so far, funds have been used to provide items and services such as library books, school computers, firefighting gear, nursing home upgrades, sports equipment, free dental services, wheelchairs, coats for children in domestic violence shelters, and a running track at a women's prison. Grants awarded nationally. Maximum award: $25,000. Open Deadline.
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities: Monthly Mini Grants
Mini grants are awarded on a monthly basis to individual researchers to support research in the humanities. Applications are to be completed online and submitted by or on the 1st of each month. The council asks that applicants contact grants staff prior to submitting an application to discuss availability of funds. The council’s grants support various phases of public humanities projects (from research and development to production) and many kinds of public humanities projects (from live discussion and presentation programs to broadcast media programs). As a rule, programs should be geared to a broad and diverse general audience. Maximum award: $2,000. Application deadlines are on the first of each month.
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance offers grants of $500 to $2500 to preK-12 classroom teachers for projects designed to reduce prejudice among youth, improve intergroup relations in schools and/or support educator professional development in these areas. Proposals from other community organizations and houses of worship will be considered on the basis of direct student impact. Open Deadline.
