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The following section is a listing of grant-related resources. In many cases, grants may either be available or have already been funded for the current year's cycle. The availability of the source for possible future funding is the reason why it is included here.

Rehabilitation Services Administration Grants
The Technical Assistance Center for Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders The Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa has been awarded a $2.5 million federal grant from the Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education to establish the National Technical Assistance Center for Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders with Disabilities.
Contact: Dr. Robert A. Stodden at 808-956-9119 stodden@hawaii.edu

Competitive Grants Available from U.S. Dept. of Labor
The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (ETA), announces the availability of approximately $20 million to award competitive grants designed to enhance the employability, employment and career advancement of people with disabilities through enhanced service delivery in the new One-Stop delivery system established under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA).

http://wdsc.doleta.gov/sga
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration
Competitive Grant Opportunities - Grant and Contract Applications
Subscribe to the 'Grants and Contracts ListServ'

http://www.resourcecenter.usga.org/
United States Golf Association
Resource Center for Individuals with Disabilities
Since 1992, the USGA has made grants totaling over $1.5 million dollars toward golf programs for golfers with disabilities.

http://www.ld.org/awards/afscholarinfo.cfm
The Anne Ford Scholarship
The Anne Ford Scholarship is a $10,000 award given to a high school senior with an identified learning disability (LD) who is pursuing an undergraduate degree.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria
The National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc. (NCLD) is seeking applicants for the Anne Ford Scholarship, which is available to students of high merit with an identified learning disability (LD) in public or private secondary schools. Financial need will be strongly considered. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Only U.S. citizens are eligible.

The Anne Ford Scholar
The ideal candidate is a person who has faced the challenges of having a learning disability and who, through hard work and perseverance, has created a life of purpose and achievement. The candidate embraces new opportunities and has a well-rounded perspective shaped by experiences in school, with family and friends, and through community involvement. The candidate understands how LD affects his/her life and knows the importance of self-advocacy. He/she is committed to completing a college degree and setting career goals. Particularly important is a candidate who believes in contributing to society in a way that increases the opportunities and potential of people with learning disabilities. Thus, as an Anne Ford Scholar he/she would be comfortable serving as a role model for others who struggle and succeed with learning disabilities, and would create through example a message of hope and inspiration.
Mentoring and Outreach Opportunities
The Scholar must be willing to mentor future Scholars and act as a role model for people with LD through such activities as public speaking, writing for publications, and other opportunities made possible through NCLD.

Application Requirements
Interested individuals must submit an application (available at www.ld.org) and either:

1. A 750 - 1,000 word written essay describing the applicant's learning disability and how it has affected his/her life, including scholastic achievement, relationships with family and friends, community involvement, and future aspirations. In this description applicants should specify their positive and negative experiences with a learning disability, and elaborate on how they have coped with the negative aspects. Applicants should directly address the qualifications listed above in their essays. Judges will be particularly interested in how applicants believe a college education will enhance their lives.
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2. A video or audio tape (up to 15-minutes in length) with accompanying script or outline describing the above.

Applicants must also submit their high school transcripts, portfolios (if applicable), three (3) letters of recommendation (at least one from a teacher), a financial statement, and SAT/ACT scores.

Scholarship Requirements
Anne Ford Scholars will be required to submit annual reports (written or in video format) detailing their progress in school and describing their insights about their personal growth. The $10,000 scholarship will be paid in four yearly installments of $2,500. Scholars must complete their reports and submit college transcripts in order to receive payment. A final report will be due upon graduation (no later than June 30).

National Center for Learning Disabilities
The mission of NCLD (www.LD.org) is to increase opportunities for all individuals with learning disabilities (LD) to achieve their potential.

Anne Ford Scholarship
National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc.
381 Park Avenue South, Suite 1401
New York, NY 10016-8806
Telephone: 212-545-7510
Fax: 212-545-9665

http://www.reading.org/awards/grantcha.html
Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship
The Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship is a $6,000 grant established to encourage and support reading research by promising scholars. The special emphasis of the Fellowship is to support research efforts in the following areas: beginning reading (theory, research, and practice that improves the effectiveness of learning to read); readability (methods of predicting the difficulty of texts); reading difficulty (diagnosis, treatment, and prevention); stages of reading development; the relation of vocabulary to reading; and diagnosing and teaching adults with limited reading ability. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2003.

http://www.newmansown.com/125million.htm
Newman's Own
Since founding the company, Paul Newman's charitable organization has donated over $125 million - all of his after-tax profits - from Newman's Own products to thousands of charities. Areas of giving include:
- Arts
- Affordable Housing
- Children
- Disaster Relief
- Education
- Elderly Groups- Environmental Causes
- Hunger Relief

http://www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=el (updated 9/15/03)
U.S. Department of Education
Grants and Contracts: Overview
To support improvements in teaching and learning and to help meet special needs of schools and students in elementary and secondary education, the U.S. Department of Education is delivering about $28 billion this year to states and school districts, primarily through formula-based grant programs. To help strengthen teaching and learning in colleges, universities, and other postsecondary institutions, it is providing about $2 billion.

http://wdsc.doleta.gov/sga/awards/02-100award.asp
U.S. Department of Labor
Employment & Training Administration
Disability Employment Grant Program
Award List - shows grants already awarded for 2002.

http://www.ela.org
http://www.ela.org/grants/grants_bottom.html
Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation
The ELA Foundation - "Changing the Face of Disability" seeks to fund programs of organizations that are led by or which support the work of people with disabilities with an emphasis on programs for women. They are involved in the areas of education, advocacy, and the arts.

http://www.grantsplus.mnscu.edu
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Grants Plus
A new grant resources website where you'll find resources for Perkins III, Tech Prep, Partners, Skills Standards and other Grant Opportunities.

http://www.GrantMiner.com
GrantMiner.com
This is a source for up-to-date information about funding opportunities. It includes requests for Proposals and time-sensitive information from private, federal, and state sources. RFPs can be viewed in a summary format with links, deadline dates and contacts for further information.

http://www.disabilityresources.org/GRANTS.html
Disability Resources - Grants and Grantwriting
Geared for nonprofit organizations and researchers, these sites provide information about disability-related funding opportunities from public and private sources.
Sections include:

FY 2001-2002 Discretionary Grant Application Packages

Foundations and Corporate Programs Offering Grant Funds

The Arc of the United States

The Arc's Research Grants Program in Mental Retardation supports research leading toward prevention, amelioration or cure of mental retardation. The Arc has identified several areas of special interest for 1998: enhancing opportunities for people with mental retardation to live, learn, work and play in their communities, with a particular interest in assistive technology and cognitive access; and prevention of mental retardation with a particular interest in FAS prevention.
http://thearc.org

The AT&T Foundation
The AT&T Foundation currently concentrates on four program areas: Education, Health and Human Services, Arts and Culture, and Extending Our Reach (focused on non-United States communities). The site also provides information about application procedures and policies.
http://www.att.com/foundation

The Benton Foundation
This site describes the foundation's Communications Policy Project that supports public interest values and noncommercial services for the National Information Infrastructure through research, policy analysis, print, video, and online publishing, and outreach to nonprofits and other foundations.
http://www.benton.org/

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Center for Technology Access (GCTA)
The GCTA is dedicated to ensuring that no one becomes "information disenfranchised." GCTA works to establish access to information technology resources in communities throughout the United Statesthrough partnerships with libraries, schools, and community organizations. By empowering public institutions to provide their citizens access to information technology, GCTA helps build infrastructures for self-sustaining computer systems in the communities that need them most. As the ability to use computers and manage digital information becomes increasingly crucial for success in education and careers, GCTA's hope is that communities with limited access to technology can work toward a point where poverty ceases to limit opportunity.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

Carnegie Corporation of New York
This site describes the current program areas: Early Childhood, Young Adolescents, Science Education, Education Reform, Preventing Mass Intergroup Violence, Strengthening Democratic Institutions, Cooperative Security and Nonproliferation, Strengthening Human Resources in Developing Countries, and Special Projects. Additional information about each area is provided along with specific grant application materials.
http://www.carnegie.org

The Commonwealth Fund
This fund focuses on promoting independent research in four areas: improving health care services, bettering the health of minority Americans, advancing the well-being of elderly people, and developing the capacities of children and young people.
http://www.cmwf.org

The Charles A. Dana Foundation
Grants made by the foundation under new guidelines in the education area include projects that: (1) promote joint ventures among previous Dana innovators, and (2) support moving a single innovator's work into new areas, and then mounting a sophisticated effort to disseminate the new developments. The foundation also funds awards for collaborative research on diseases and disorders of the brain. This site contains information about new awards made by the foundation and the procedures for application.
http://www.dana.org

The Foundation Center
This is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse established in 1956. The mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.
http://fdncenter.org

Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
The foundation's purpose is "to extend the healthful productive years of life through research on mechanisms of biological aging." The site is a point-of-access for scientists whose primary interest is in the biology of aging, or other organizations involved in aging research.
http://www.glenn.deco.net

Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is an international grant making organization which focuses on female human rights. The Fund is committed to giving flexible, timely support to women's groups working on emerging, controversial, or difficult issues.
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
This foundation supports a broad mental health program to benefit the people of Texas. The current priorities are: children and their families, youth at risk, and minority mental health.
http://hogg1.lac.utexas.edu

IBM
This site describes IBM's new focus issues for its philanthropic activities. These include: K-12 Education (Re-Inventing Education), Workforce Development (Adult Education and Job Training), and Environment. IBM also conducts an IBM International Foundation.
http://www.ibm.com/IBM/IBMGives/index.html

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
This foundation supports projects that: improve student assessments and professional development of educators, develop critical and creative thinking skills, promote diversity in the media, research mental health and human development, cooperation-building training and research, among others. The site provides more information about these and additional programs such as the fellowship and the World Environment and Resources Program.

The Internet Nonprofit Center

This site purports to provide "more information on nonprofits than any other site in the world." Information is divided into a gallery of organizations, a library of publications/data, a parlor for chatting, and a heliport complete with hot links. This site's information could be useful in learning about specific or related nonprofits in grant-seeking efforts.
http://www.nonprofits.org

Poverty & Race Research Action Council
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) announces another round of education reform grants in areas of social science research. PRRAC is particularly interested in issues such as high classroom turnover/mobility and its disproportionate impact on low-income, minority, and farm worker students. However, other issues will be considered as well. To apply, send PRRAC a proposal outlining the planned research and methodology, the advocacy work it is designed to support, a budget, timeline, and qualifications of the researchers. Maximum grant: $10,000. No application deadline.
http://www.prrac.org/grants.htm

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
This foundation is the United States' largest private philanthropy devoted to health care. The web site provides additional information on details of the current program.
http://www.rwjf.org/index.jsp

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The foundation work is focused in four main areas: health policy, reproductive health, HIV policy, and health and development in South Africa. Grant application material and new grants made by the foundation are available through the site.
http://www.kff.org/homepage

Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation
The foundation mission is to research and identify the unfulfilled needs of society, and to develop, implement, and/or fund breakthrough solutions that have a lasting impact. Current work is focused in two areas: youth development and entrepreneurial leadership.
http://www.emkf.org

The Edward Lowe Foundation
"Entrepreneurial Edge, a service of the Edward Lowe Foundation, provides information you can use to grow and improve your business. It offers entrepreneurs a full-text searchable library of over 3,000 articles and book chapters, reviews with links to other content-rich resources, practical "how-to" training modules, and peer-to-peer interaction."
http://edwardlowe.org/index.shtml

Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
The foundation's mission is to assist young people with disabilities to lead fuller and more productive lives. Within that mission, the foundation provides grants for projects of national scope and impact, and matching grants for projects initiated by MEA companies in their local communities. Priority is given to organizations and projects that promote the independence, productivity, and community inclusion of youth with disabilities.
http://www.meaf.org

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The foundation has interests in a variety of areas including: science, children, population, conservation, arts and film preservation, education, community (including employment and job training), management assistance, and other special areas. More information on these areas and application procedures are available through the site.
http://www.packard.org/

Pew Charitable Trusts
In addition to the work supported in six program areas of: Culture, Education, Public Policy, Environment,. Health and Human Services, and Religion; the Venture Fund supports independent projects that take an interdisciplinary approach to broad issues of significant interest or concern. http://www.pewtrusts.com/grants/index.cfm?image=img3

Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The foundation currently focuses on projects that: foster environmental stewardship, promote the health and vitality of the nonprofit sector, strengthen the numbers and quality of teachers in public education, and others. The site provides additional information about funding opportunities and application procedures.
http://www.rbf.org

Rotary Foundation
The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. Through its Educational Programs, the Foundation provides funding for some 1,200 students to study abroad each year. Grants are also awarded to university teachers to teach in developing countries and for exchanges of business and professional people. http://www.rotary.org/foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The main interests and programs of this foundation are concentrated primarily in four areas: science and technology; standards of living, competitiveness, and economics; education and careers in science and technology; and selected national issues. The site provides additional information about each of the priority areas.
http://www.sloan.org

The Whitaker Foundation
The Whitaker Foundation is a private, nonprofit that primarily supports research and training in biomedical engineering. This foundation has committed to an accelerated program of grant-making that will deplete its endowment by 2006.
http://www.whitaker.org/