Resources

Funding and Support

SNAP Foundation
SNAP helps young people across the U.S. by supplying educators with cameras, film developing and a variety of visual literacy lesson plans. SNAP Students builds critical thinking skills in kids as they reflect on the things they value, document their lives, and tell their stories to the world.
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Pay it Forward Foundation
The Pay It Forward Foundation was established in September 2000 by author Catherine Ryan Hyde and others to educate and inspire students to realize that they can change the world, and provide them with opportunities to do so. By bringing the author's vision and related materials into classrooms internationally, students and their teachers are encouraged to formulate their own ideas of how they can pay it forward.
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Inspired Teacher Scholarships
Inspired Teacher Scholarships are awarded for bringing visual learning into the classroom. 25 talented educators receive funding to support professional development or new technology for their classrooms in recognition of their creative use of visual learning to help their students think and learn.
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Nike Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program
The Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program was established in 1999 to recognize outstanding teaching and instructional creativity in public secondary schools that serve economically disadvantaged students. Innovation Grants, averaging $5,000, are awarded to individual teachers for projects that will impact classroom innovation and improve instruction. Awardees of these may apply for an Inspiration Grant, ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, to support scaling-up the implementation of successful approaches developed with Innovation Grants.
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Kids in Need
The Kids In Need Foundation introduced a new teacher grants program where teachers can apply for an Elmer’s Teacher Tool Kit grant that can range from $100 to $500. The grants will be given to teachers who wish to conduct classroom projects selected from a catalog of more than 500 projects.
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Digital Opportunities

Adobe Kids Club
Technology integration is a key mechanism for augmenting classroom instruction while helping students learn lifelong communication skills for the digital age. Use these lesson plans -- which incorporate technology education through the use of Adobe® Digital School Collection software -- when teaching about math and science, language arts, history/social studies, and visual and performing arts.
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Adobe Education Store
This resource provides discounts to educators affiliated with a school or university. For example, Adobe's Photoshop Elements program is inexpensive and good for children.
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Adobe’s Software Donation Program
Adobe supports primary and secondary schools (U.S. K-12) and qualified nonprofit organizations/NGOs with donations of their latest software. Adobe’s Software Donation Program allows schools and nonprofits/NGOs to request a maximum of four individually titled software products or one bundled software package per year.
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Corporate Giving

Best Buy Teach Award Program
Best Buy supports K-12 schools who have integrated interactive technology in their curriculum with the Best Buy Teach Award program. Winning programs focus on kids using technology to learn standards-based curriculum, rather than on teaching students to use technology or educators using technology that children aren't able to use hands-on. The purpose of the Best Buy Teach Award program is to reward schools for the successful interactive programs they have launched using available technology.
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Lowe’s Toolbox for Education
The Lowe's Toolbox for Education Program is a grant program provided by Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation. It focuses on community-building and facility-enhancing (both indoor and outdoor) projects with a maximum grant of $5,000.
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Professional Development Grants

Fund for Teachers Grants
K-12 teachers with a minimum of three years teaching experience as a full time teacher can apply for this grant by designing a professional development experience. Eligible applicants may apply as an individual or as a team; the funding limit is $5,000 per person and $7,500 total per team. Applicants submit a written proposal explaining how their experience will make them a better teacher and how the applicant's improved skills or capacity will be implemented in the classroom, benefiting students, curricula and school. In addition, applicants should supply information as to how they will document experiences and describe, in narrative form, their proposed fellowship budget.
Deadline: Varies depending on state
Maximum Grant: Varies depending on state
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Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program
The Surdna Foundation announces the ninth year of a national initiative to support the artistic revitalization of outstanding arts teachers in public arts high schools. Surdna recognizes that arts teachers often lack the time and resources to reconnect with other arts professionals and with the artistic processes they teach. Through the Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program, Fellows design individualized courses of study that provide both immersion in their own creative work and the opportunity to interact with other professional artists in their fields.
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