Funding Resources

ASHA Leader, January, 2017. Find which funding resource is the best match for your project.

From ASHA's School Finance Committee. How to appeal for donations, write a small grant, negotiate for Medicaid $$$, and more.

Free guide you can download, from News2You.

Provides supplies to teachers and students affected by natural disasters. KINF works with local authorities, schools, and sponsors to help students return to their routines with the tools they need to continue their education. 

Created by a history teacher, this is a website where teachers can post classroom project requests, and donors can choose the ones they want to support. Check with your admin before doing this!

All of the major pet store chains and pet product companies participate in grants for classroom pets. Check it out! 

Search thousands of grants and other opportunities available to public and private preK–12 schools, districts, and educators; higher educ. institutions; and nonprofit organizations that work with them. 

Get money for recycling used ink cartridges.

Another crowd funding resource, with lots of help to set it up.

Grants, crowd funding, matching gifts, donations, online auctions, fund raising projects and events .

From Classcraft, this includes common grant misconceptions, the approval process, recommended education grants, and a template.

Want to start your own practice? Where to find grants, how to apply. Some specifically for women.

Article from Edutopia that explains crowd funding and different options under Donors Choose. Don't forget to check with your admin about district policy regarding fund raising. 

Education, the arts, public safety—these are just a few of the  areas supported through their grants programs. Great source for funding field trips. 

A crowd funding source for creative projects. Want to publish a book? Here's where to get funding.

List of funding resources from Edutopia, May 2017.

Since 1982 the Youth Garden Grants have reached over 1.3 million students and hundreds of schools to establish new school and community gardens and assist in sustaining and renewing existing gardens. Once started, students could sell the items grown for an additional fundraiser (if funds will be used for THEM).