Grants and Funding

StoryChasers often need additional technology equipment which is not provided as part of a "standard package" of hardware and software provided by school districts. This page includes suggested links for finding funding sources for your classroom technology needs, as well as organizational grant opportunities.

= For Individual Classroom Teachers =

Seek Funding Online
Educators can now disintermediate the grant funding process for technology equipment with resource sites like these.
 * Digital Wish
 * Donors Choose

Educational Grants with Time Suspenses

 * Tool Factory, Digital Wish and Olympus Grant Program

Educational Grant Portal sites

 * Grant Resources from Digital Wish
 * Grant Wranger - Find Funding Fast for K-12 Schools
 * Wesley Fryer's social bookmarks for grant resources

= For Organizational Applicants =

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
These grant sources may be utilized by the Storychasers organization for grant applications. America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. NEH offers two categories of grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning and Implementation Grants. 20100113-GE (GG 10/8/09) Grants for America’s Media Makers support projects in the humanities that explore stories, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. Grants for America’s Media Makers should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. NEH offers two categories of grants for media projects: Development Grants and Production Grants. Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production. Development grants should culminate in the refinement of a project’s humanities ideas, a script, or a design document for (or a prototype of) digital media components or projects. 20100113-TD (GG 10/15/09) Deadline: 1/13/2010
 * America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning Grants (NEH)
 * America’s Media Makers Development Grants (NEH)

Teaching American History (TEH)

 * Teaching American History Grants Official Website
 * Article 1 Dec 2009: Resource: A Heads-Up on American History Grant Process

Kansas Grant Sources

 * KSU Center for Engagement and Community Development

Other Related Links

 * "Got digital wishes for your classroom? Disintermediate your edtech funding process!" - blog post by Wesley Fryer