Guide to grants for educators -- "Our number one goal at GrantsAlert.com," say site developers Joe Mizereck and Chad Stalvey, "is to make life a little easier for those who devote their time to searching for education grants and identifying new funding opportunities for their organizations, schools, districts, consortia and state education agencies."

The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund is a national, private grantmaking foundation located in New York City. Its mission is to improve the quality of educational development opportunities for school-age youth, especially young people growing up in low-income communities.

Pell Grants are direct grants awarded through participating institutions to undergraduate students who have not received their first Bachelor's degree with financial need. Participating institutions either credit the Pell Grant funds to the student's school account, pay the student directly (usually by check), or combine these methods. Students must be paid at least once per term (semester, trimester, or quarter); schools that do not use formally defined terms must pay the student at least twice per academic year.

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is providing nearly $38 billion this year to states and school districts, primarily through formula-based grant programs, to improve elementary and secondary schools and meet the special needs of students. ED is providing about $2.5 billion to help strengthen teaching and learning in colleges and other postsecondary institutions and over $4 billion to support rehabilitation, adult education, research and development, statistics, and assessment.

List of funding agencies maintaining Web sites from the Computer Science depatment at the University of Virginia

Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities, the most comprehensive resource of funding information available on the Web, publishes more than 15,000 sources of funding from around the world. It is updated daily. Individual researchers and research administrators rely on COS Funding Opportunities to identify funding information as it relates to research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, and operating or capital expenses, among others. Sources of these awards include federal and regional governments, foundations, professional societies, associations, and corporations.

FEDIX (text or graphic version) is the premier online database of federal grant and research opportunities for the education and research communities. Participating federal agencies use FEDIX as an outreach tool to enhance com-munications with colleges, universities, and other educational and research organizations.

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