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The funding opportunities listed below have been reviewed by the Office of Grants and External Funding and have been found appropriate for Horry County Schools. Should you pursue a grant for your school, please notify our office of your intent.
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Ongoing Grant Opportunities
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Grant Name/
Funding Agency
Click link for more info.
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Purpose
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Due Date(s)
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Amount
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Keywords
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| TEACH Grant Program / US Department of Education |
To provide grants to education majors who agree to teach for four years at an elementary school, secondary school, or educational service agency that serves students from low-income families and to meet other requirements. |
ongoing |
Up to $4,000 yearly |
Teachers |
| LEGO Education Workshop Grants / Education Blueprints Association |
To help fund teachers using LEGO Education products to facilitate hands-on workshops at national, state, or regional conferences or events by reimbursing qualified facilitators' expenses. |
ongoing |
Travel expenses |
Teachers |
| Improving Community Education Grants / Charles Stewart Mott Foundation |
To support initiatives that strengthen the capacity of youth-serving organizations to advocate for the needs of vulnerable youth and develop, identify and disseminate promising practices that support this population. |
ongoing |
$15,000-$250,000 |
At-risk youth |
| GenerationOn / Hasbro Children's Fund |
To help young people develop into healthy, empowered, creative problem-solvers and global leaders by experiencing their power and potential through service, service learning and giving back. |
ongoing |
varies |
Service learning |
| Community Relations Grants / Blockbuster Corporation |
To support organizations that impact children and families through cash contributions incorporating employee volunteerism and in-kind donations. |
monthly |
varies |
Community |
| DigiGirlz High Tech Camp / Microsoft Corp. |
To fund High Tech camp for girls in grades 9-11 to participate in four-day technology camps including executive speakers, technology tours and demonstrations, networking with peers, and learning through hands-on experience in workshops. |
varies |
Camp only; lodging and travel not included |
Technology for girls |
| Emerging & Promising Practices Grant / Kresge Foundation |
To support innovative methods that address social and environmental factors affecting health in at-risk communities. |
ongoing |
Up to $250,000 |
Health |
| Butterflies in the Classroom / Live Monarch Foundation |
To enlist the help of school children nationwide in the battle to strengthen the Monarch Butterfly's 3,000 mile migratory route from Mexico to Canada. |
ongoing |
Kit with educational materials and seeds to create a butterfly garden |
Wildlife conservation |
| Dorothy F. Thorne Foundation Grants |
To support innovative non-profit enterprises that are responsive to emerging needs and opportunities in their communities. |
ongoing |
Up to $35,000 |
Community |
| Education Grants / Texas Instruments |
To assist school districts to incorporate state-of-the art engineering and advanced technology into the high school classroom and to promote "teachers teaching other teachers" through both face-to-face and online professional development institutes to train on the latest methods in teaching math and science. |
ongoing |
varies |
STEM education |
| National Writing Contest for High School Students / Stage of Life / KodakGallery.com |
To encourage teens to express their authentic voice by submitting non-fictional essays about the monthly contest topic. |
Last day of each month |
$25 gift card, t-shirt, pen & certificate |
Student essays |
| Deeper Learning Grants / William & Flora Hewlett Foundation |
To promote policies or strategies that create incentives for K-12 schools who focus on deeper learning--particularly improved assessments used to measure a student's academic growth, and new & innovative models to increase access for all students. |
ongoing |
varies |
Education |
| Vulnerable Children Grants / Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation |
To support organizations that offer direct aid to children in need. |
ongoing |
$1,000-$15,000 |
Disadvantaged children |
| Goods for the Greater Good / Good360 |
To supply a wide range of product donations to non-profits through free membership. |
ongoing |
Product donations |
Donations |
| Program Exploration Grants / Ford Foundation |
To focus on reducing poverty and injustice; promoting democratic values; and advancing human knowledge, creativity and achievement. |
ongoing |
varies |
Education |
| Playful City USA / KaBOOM! |
To recognize and honor cities and towns across the nation committed to taking action for play with priority status for playground builds and grants. |
ongoing |
varies |
Playgrounds |
| Grants for Education / Halliburton Foundation |
To support education through direct donations to US-based elementary and secondary schools. |
quarterly |
varies |
K-12 education |
| Dreyer's Foundation Grants |
To promote family, school and community environments that build skills and foster talents in young people. |
monthly |
Up to $1,000 and donations |
Education |
| Electronics Recycling Grant Program / Best Buy |
To support an environmentally responsible consumer electronics recycling event. |
ongoing |
$500-$1,500 |
Recycling |
| Harry Chapin Foundation Grants |
To support programs that promote or preserve community education, Arts-in-Education, agriculture and the environment in 501(c)3 organizations. |
ongoing |
Up to $10,000 |
Education |
| Sony Corporation of America Grants |
To support education, especially arts education and engineering, math and science education with an emphasis on minorities. |
ongoing |
varies |
Arts education/STEM education |
| Shell Oil Education Grants |
To support K-12 programs that boost math, science and technology skills, with special consideration given to projects involving women and/or minorities. |
ongoing |
varies |
STEM education |
| Help Kids Play / The Finish Line Foundation |
To support organizations that provide community-based access to athletics especially disadvantaged or disabled youth. |
quarterly |
Up to $5,000 |
Athletics |
| Classroom Grants / American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Foundation |
To encourage excellence in educating students about science, technology, engineering, and math. |
ongoing |
$200 per teacher/$1,000 per school |
STEM education |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
To support programs that ensure high school students graduate ready for success and prepared to earn post-secondary degrees. |
ongoing |
varies |
Education |
| Community Involvement Program Grants / Assurant Employee Benefits Co. |
To support education with an emphasis on alternative education, retraining and mentoring/tutoring programs. |
monthly |
varies |
Community involvement, mentoring |
| Community Outreach / DuPont |
To support programs with the potential to demonstrate improved and sustainable outcomes, primarily in science, math and technology education. |
ongoing |
varies |
STEM education |
| Singing for Change / Jimmy Buffett's SFC Charitable Foundation |
To support programs that are concerned with the health, education and protection of children and their families, fostering self-esteem and self-sufficiency, nonviolence and creative problem solving. |
ongoing |
$500-$10,000 |
Health, education, environment |
| Fender Music Foundation Grants |
To provide music instruction for people of any age who would not otherwise have the opportunity to make music. |
ongoing |
$500-$5,000 |
Music education |
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Charles Lafitte Education Grants
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To provide support for innovative programs aimed at assisting students with learning disabilities, providing technology and computer based education, creating access to education of the arts, supporting at-risk children from pre-school to college, and providing learning enhancement including the development of leadership skills.
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ongoing
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varies
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Education
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Horry County Environmental Grants / Horry County Solid Waste Authority
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To fund environmental education projects to schools in the Horry County School system.
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ongoing
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$250
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Environment
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US Tennis Association Grants
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To support, monitor and promote not-for-profit organizations that support at-risk youth and people with disabilities through tennis and education programs designed to improve health, build character and strive for academic excellence.
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ongoing
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varies
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Tennis and education
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| Captain Planet Foundation Environmental Grants |
To provide funds for hands-on programs that promote understanding of environmental issues. |
9/30/11 & 12/31/11 |
$250-$2,500 |
Environment |
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Do Something Seed Grants / American Express / dosomething.org
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To support new or recently created and sustainable community action projects, programs or organizations.
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ongoing
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$500
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Community action
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| "Make It Matter" Awards / Reader's Digest Foundation |
To recognize individuals/ groups who are taking action and giving back to their communities in significant ways. |
monthly |
$100,000 charitable contribution |
Service |
| Music is Revolution Mini-Grants / Michael H. Davis Music is Revolution Foundation |
To support music education programs in public schools by providing funds and materials to teachers to restore, supplement, or augment music education programs. |
10/15/11 |
Up to $500 |
Music education |
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Jewel-Osco Community Grants
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To provide support for nutritional education including health and wellness awareness, education and programming, or environmental stewardship.
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ongoing
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varies
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Education, environment
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Books Across America / NEA Foundation
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To support public school libraries serving economically disadvantaged through periodic donations of books, grants and facility improvements.
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ongoing
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varies
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School libraries
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Learning & Leadership / NEA Foundation
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To support public school faculty and staff using professional development to improve practice, curriculum, and student achievement.
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ongoing
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$2,000 to $5,000
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Student achievement
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Adopt-A-Classroom / Office Max
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To provide financial and moral support to a classroom.
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ongoing
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varies
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Classroom supplies
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Pets in the Classroom / The Pet Care Trust
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To enable teachers in grades K-6 to have aquarium fish or small pets in the classroom.
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ongoing
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up to $150 grant or coupon
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Pets
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Baseball Tomorrow Fund Grant / Major League Baseball
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To expand and improve baseball and softball programs.
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ongoing
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up to $50,000
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Baseball and
Softball Programs
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Literacy and Education Grants / Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation
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Support for children in literacy and education programs such as summer reading programs, early childhood education programs and literacy programs for children with special needs.
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ongoing
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up to $10,000
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Literacy
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Progress Energy Corporate Grant / Progress Energy
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To support education, economic development and the environment and other community issues.
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ongoing
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up to $10,000
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Education,
environment
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Young Publishers Grant / Newspaper Association of America Foundation
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To help high school students and advisers learn the skills required for success in newspaper publishing through the development of a business plan.
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ongoing
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$2,500
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Newspapers
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