Grants

This __page__ contains information I've collected as part of my research on grants available for Adult Continuing Education programs.


 * __Title __**

Adult __Education__--Basic Grants to States **__Description __**

This program provides grants to states to fund local programs of **adult education** and literacy services, including **workplace literacy** services; family literacy services; __English__ literacy programs and integrated English literacy-civics education programs. Participation in these programs is limited to **adults** and out-of-school youths age 16 and older who are not enrolled or required to be enrolled in secondary school under state law. States prepare plans for providing adult education services over a five-year period. Under the Workforce Investment Act, adult education plans may be part of state unified plans for workforce development, or may cover only **adult education**.
 * __Eligibility __**

Awards are made to state eligible agencies that under state law are solely responsible for administering or supervising statewide policy for **adult education** and literacy, including such entities as SEAs, postsecondary agencies, or **workforce agencies**.
 * __Dates __**

Each fiscal year
 * **Adult Education and Family Literacy Act __State Grants__ ** ||
 * **Estimated State Award Amounts for ****FY ****2010 ** ||
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 * <span style="color: #393939; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">PENNSYLVANIA || <span style="color: #393939; display: block; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px; text-align: right;">$17,044,639 || <span style="color: #4e4e4e; display: block; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px; text-align: right;">$1,590,294 || <span style="color: #4e4e4e; display: block; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px; text-align: right;">$0 || <span style="color: #393939; display: block; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px; text-align: right;">$18,634,933 ||
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">Amount __**

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">It seems logical to me to apply for this grant. We are an adult education program. We provide workforce development classes and we partner with a workforce agency (Career Link). I think we would be best to co-author this grant with them. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">[]
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">Rationale __**

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">To participate in the Basic State __Grant program__, States must: designate an eligible agency as a sole State **agency responsible for the administration or supervision of career-technical education**; prepare a five–year State Plan subject to the approval of the Secretary of Education, and submit annual revisions as necessary; and, establish a State performance accountability system to assess State effectiveness in achieving progress in **career-technical education**, and to optimize the __return__ on investment of Federal funds appropriated for career-technical education. || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">[]
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Title __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Vocational Education--Basic Grants to States (84.048A) ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Description __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Federal funds are made available to develop more fully the academic and **career and technical skills** of secondary and **postsecondary students** who elect to enroll in **career and technical programs**. In accordance with the statute, at least 85 percent of the funds are allocated to eligible local recipients ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Eligibility __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">Awards are made to state eligible agencies for vocational education, which in turn award at least 85 percent of the funds on the basis of statutory formulas to eligible recipients.
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Dates __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Awards are made to states on a formula basis ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Amount __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Range of __New__ Awards: $158,862–$127,991,502 ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Rationale __** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">MCTI ACE teaches adult learners career and technical skills. ||

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 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Title __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Vocational Education National Programs (84.051) ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Description __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">The Perkins National Activities authority supports research, evaluation, __information__ dissemination, technical assistance to states, and other activities aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of career and technical education. The legislation specifically calls for, among other activities, the operation of a national center for research, dissemination and technical assistance in career and technical education, and a national assessment of career and technical education programs operated under the //<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Perkins Act // (see legislative citation). Current major activities by CFDA # include:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">National Centers for Career and Technical Education (NCCTE) (# 84.051A)—This program supports the establishment of a national center or centers to conduct applied research, development, dissemination, and training activities in the field of vocational education. See also http://www. nccte.org.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Promoting Rigorous Programs of Study (# 84.051C)—This program promotes rigorous programs of study through the creation of statewide or multistate articulation agreements that ensure a common statewide set of program of study standards aligned with postsecondary and employer expectations, and a common assessment instrument documenting student competencies. These agreements will allow secondary students to earn college [|credit] that is accepted throughout a state or consortium of states, and allow community college students to transfer to other state two- or four-year institutions without losing credit for courses already taken. ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Eligibility __** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">Who May **[|**Apply**]**<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">: (by category) **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;"> Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), **Nonprofit Organizations**, Other Organizations and/or Agencies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">Who May Apply (specifically) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">For National Centers for **Career and Technical Education** (# 84.051A), consortia of eligible organizations may apply.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">For State Scholars (# 84.051U), [|applicants] include other organizations or agencies that have worked with members of the business and education communities at the state or national level, and have experience in providing technical assistance to local education agencies (LEAs), state education agencies (SEAs), secondary schools, education institutions, or nonprofit education agencies on education matters ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Dates __** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Each fiscal year ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Amount __** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Estimated Total Program Funding: **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">$2,200,000 ||
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Rationale __** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">MCTI ACE is a non profit organization that teaches Career and Technical Education ||

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Next Generation Learning Challenges <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) is a unique collaboration between philanthropic foundations, educators, innovators, and technologists focused on addressing the barriers to educational innovation by tapping the potential of technology to improve college readiness and completion, particularly for low-income young adults. In addition to grants, NGLC seeks to spark dialogue and community building through a series of events, resources, and online tools designed to catalyze new ideas, foster solutions, and form unique collaborations that span institutions and disciplines. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">NGLC seeks both district and charter applicants who seek to launch new blended school models. Only brand new models that are starting fresh (including in a turnaround environment) will be considered. Partnerships between one or more other NGLC eligible entities, such as nonprofits, schools and technology companies are eligible and encouraged, but the primary applicant must be a member of a school district or a charter school founding leadership team. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">NGLC will accept applications until **11:59 p.m. ET on June 8, 2012**. However, prospective applicants should consider the following timeline when developing their proposal:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Title **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Description **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Eligibility **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Dates **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Submission date ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Second phase Notifications ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Winners Notified ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Models should open in: ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">November 11, 2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">November 23, 2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">February 8, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Fall 2012 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">February 9, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">March 9, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">May 31, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Fall 2012 or 2013 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">June 8, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">July 8, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">September 30, 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Fall 2013 ||

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">All applicants are eligible for: <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">$150,000 planning grant at time of award
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<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;"> Up to $300,000 in 1:1 matching funds after initial award, subject to proof of match and demonstrated progress towards school opening <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.05px;">Additionally, all Wave IIIa winners will gain access to a range of non-financial supports, such as connections to other entrepreneurs within NGLC, connections with the communities represented by the NGLC partners, and resources that may help refine and push academic and business models. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">We have begun a blended learning system in the adult education program. We use wikispaces and multimedia presentations in order to reinforce learning. While this is still in its infancy, we would be wise to apply for grants such as this one that enrich our attempts to use new and emerging technologies to reach our students. The rewards are not only monetary, but could take the form of technology that we will secure to increase the effectiveness of our instructors, promote our institution, and better the chances for our students who seek job opportunities. <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">[]
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Title ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Description ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Dates ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Amount ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Vocational Training and Education for Clean Energy (VOC TEC) ** || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">USAID intends to award a worldwide Leader with Associate (LWA) Cooperative Agreement for the VOCational Training and Education for Clean energy, or VOC TEC. The purpose of this program is to bolster the capacity of local stakeholders to sustain renewable energy investments, primarily in decentralized clean energy technologies and hybrid renewable energy-hydrocarbon systems. The focus of the program will be on distributed energy systems, specifically wind, solar PV, micro-hydro, and hybrid energy systems utilizing any of these three technologies along with fossil-fueled generators. Emphasis will be on developing local capacity to assemble, design, install, operate, and maintain facility-specific or community-level micro-grid systems. The LWA agreement may be with a single institution or with a consortium of institutions. USAID estimates that the USAID/EGAT Energy Team contribution to this agreement will total approximately $3 million dollars over a five-year period from approximately FY2010 to FY2015. USAID anticipates the total ceiling will be $10 million ($3 million to the Leader Award and $7 million towards the Associate Awards). || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Posted Date:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Vocational Training and Education for Clean Energy (VOC TEC) ** || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">USAID intends to award a worldwide Leader with Associate (LWA) Cooperative Agreement for the VOCational Training and Education for Clean energy, or VOC TEC. The purpose of this program is to bolster the capacity of local stakeholders to sustain renewable energy investments, primarily in decentralized clean energy technologies and hybrid renewable energy-hydrocarbon systems. The focus of the program will be on distributed energy systems, specifically wind, solar PV, micro-hydro, and hybrid energy systems utilizing any of these three technologies along with fossil-fueled generators. Emphasis will be on developing local capacity to assemble, design, install, operate, and maintain facility-specific or community-level micro-grid systems. The LWA agreement may be with a single institution or with a consortium of institutions. USAID estimates that the USAID/EGAT Energy Team contribution to this agreement will total approximately $3 million dollars over a five-year period from approximately FY2010 to FY2015. USAID anticipates the total ceiling will be $10 million ($3 million to the Leader Award and $7 million towards the Associate Awards). || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Posted Date:

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Sep 07, 2010

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Creation Date:

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Sep 07, 2010

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Original Closing Date for Applications:

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Oct 27, 2010

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Current Closing Date for Applications:

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Oct 27, 2010

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Category of Funding Activity:

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Education

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Employment, Labor and Training

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Energy

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Environment || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">$100,000.00 || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">[|http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=3Yn0Tx1RCkthnBf8V8MkPRyjTb0LH3ZnvtqyqpfCBh1lYnMpdFSv!1368593367?oppId=57129&mode=VIEW]


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Transition to College and Careers Center. CFDA 84.326J ** || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The purpose of the Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program is to promote academic achievement and to improve results for children with disabilities by providing technical assistance (TA), supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(v), this priority is from allowable activities specified in the statute or otherwise authorized in the statute (see sections 663 and 681(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1463 and 1481(d)). || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Applications Available:

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> August 9, 2011

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: September 8, 2011 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Awarded over 36 months @ $1.1 Million || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">[|http://www2.ed.gov/programs/oseptad/applicant.html#84326j]


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Financial Education for College Access and Success Program ** || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The Financial Education for College Access and Success Program will support State-led efforts to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of personal finance instructional materials and corresponding teacher training, with the express purpose of providing high school students with knowledge and skills to make sound financial aid and other personal finance decisions, particularly in relation to obtaining access to, persisting in, and completing postsecondary education. || **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Applications available: **

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> July 26, 2010

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> **Deadline to submit application:** Sept. 9, 2010 || **__<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Estimated Available Funds __****<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">: **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> $1,700,000

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> **__Estimated Average Size of Award__:** $1,700,000 || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">[]

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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Tina B. Carver Fund ** || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">The Tina B. Carver Fund was established by her family and colleagues to honor the life and work of Tina B. Carver, longtime member of TESOL and the ESL/EFL community. Grants are available for funding the purchase of student classroom learning materials and/or teacher-related materials (e.g., ancillary materials that can be used in conjunction with textbooks or other instruction materials) to support adult ESL education programs in the United States. || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Annual application deadlines are January 31st, May 15th, and September 30th. || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">maximum grant, $400 ||


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders ** || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Recognize individuals in the United States working to solve the health challenges that confront their own communities.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> **Funder**:The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> **Eligibility**: Nominees may be someone doing exceptional work to improve health or access to healthcare in his or her community, or someone who has solved a daunting community health problem. Eligible applicants must be permanent residents of the U.S. and be affiliated with a public or non-profit, tax exempt organization. || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Application deadline is 11/28/11 || <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Ten awards of $125,000 will be given to selected applicants. ||

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 140%;">A full report of this is available in PDF format <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 140%;">