Grant Opportunities: Edutopia Listing, NEA

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting grant opportunities.

Edutopia's Grant Information Page
"Edutopia.org is your first stop for finding out about corporate, nonprofit, and government grant-making institutions, periodicals with grant information, and more."
Visit http://www.edutopia.org/foundation/grant.php

NEA Foundation Student Achievement Grants
"The NEA Foundation Student Achievement Grants provide funds to improve the academic achievement of students by engaging in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work should also improve students' habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection."

Maximum Award: $5,000.

Eligibility: practicing U.S. public school teachers, public school education support professionals, or faculty or staff at public higher education institutions.

Deadline: October 15, 2006.

More Information: http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/StudentAchievement_Guidelines.htm

NEA American Masterpieces: Choral Music
"The National Endowment for the Arts announces funds to host regional choral festivals, each two to three days in length, which will highlight repertoire by American composers and include the participation of choral directors, composers, and other choruses."

Eligibility: city or township governments, county governments, independent school districts, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, state governments, nonprofit organizations and private institutions of higher education.

Deadline: September 1, 2006. Approximately 10 grants, ranging from $25,000- $75,000 are available. A match is required.

More Information, contact Music staff at (202) 682-5590; or go to: http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/AMChoral.html. GrantID: GD1383

NEA American Masterpieces: Musical Theater
"The National Endowment for the Arts announces funds to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. This component will celebrate the collaborative genius, evolution, diversity, and cultural contribution of the American musical theater and enable Americans in communities across the nation to experience musical theater work of the highest quality. Funds will be awarded in the following areas:

1) home-based or touring performances of masterworks; and

2) touring, by a limited number of organizations, of masterworks to three to five college and university presenters, with special consideration given to engagements in communities that traditionally do not have access to professional musical theater."

Eligibility: city or township governments, independent school districts, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, state governments, and nonprofit organizations.

Deadline: August 28, 2006. Approximately $150,000 is available to fund awards of up to $25,000. A match is required.

More Information: contact Musical Theater staff at (202) 682-5509; or go to: http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/AMMusicalTheater.html. GrantID: GD1382

NEA American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring
"The National Endowment for the Arts announces funds to acquaint Americans in all 50 states with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy.

"This component will celebrate the extraordinary and rich evolution of the visual arts in the U.S. Through the creation and touring of major exhibitions, art of the highest quality -- that otherwise would not be available -- will be experienced by Americans in communities across the nation. Exhibitions may focus on schools, movements, traditions, subject areas, or themes."

Eligibility: city or township governments, county governments, independent school districts, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, state governments, nonprofit organizations and private institutions of higher education.

Deadline September 21, 2006. Approximately $300,000 is available to fund awards of up to $30,000. A match is required.

More Information: contact Museums staff at (202) 682-5573; or go to: http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/AMVAT.html. GrantID: GD1384