Funding Opportunities

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting three funding opportunities.

ASCAP GRANT
The ASCAP Foundation will award grants to 501(c)(3) organizations engaged in music-education and talent-development programs. The average grant is approximately $3,000; applications must be received by October 1. For more information visit www.ascapfoundation.org/grants.html.

ARTS TEACHERS FELLOWSHIP
The Surdna Foundation will distribute twenty awards of up to $5,000 each to winning arts teachers, with a complementary grant of $1,500 to the winners' schools to support postfellowship activities; the deadline is November 17. For more information, visit www.surdna.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=326426&attrib_id=12040.

GRANTS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The NEA Foundation Learning and Leading grants are provided to individuals to fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research and to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. Maximum Award: $2,000. Eligibility: K-12 public school teachers, public school education support professionals, and faculty and staff in public higher education institutions. Deadline:October 15, 2006. http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/Guidelines%20Learning&Leadership.htm

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