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2025–26 School District Education Foundation Matching Grants is sponsored by Consortium of Florida Education Foundations. A statewide program that pairs local private dollars with state funds to accelerate student success, supporting initiatives that strengthen CTE pathways, raise graduation rates, improve literacy, expand STEM opportunities, enhance teaching quality, and assist low-performing students.
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Consortium Awards 2025–26 Matching Grants, Building on Last Year’s Measurable Gains | Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Consortium Awards 2025–26 Matching Grants, Building on Last Year’s Measurable Gains | Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Consortium Awards 2025–26 Matching Grants, Building on Last Year’s Measurable Gains The Consortium has awarded 2025–26 School District Education Foundation Matching Grants, a one-of-a-kind statewide program that pairs local private dollars with state funds to accelerate student success.
Backed by a $7 million state allocation that is matched by private-sector investment, the program supports initiatives that strengthen CTE pathways, raise graduation rates, improve literacy, expand STEM opportunities, enhance teaching quality, and assist low-performing students. This year, 62 local education foundations received funding to launch or expand 110 projects from coast to coast.
Projects range from teacher classroom innovation grants that spark hands-on learning to college and career readiness efforts that guide juniors and seniors through postsecondary planning. The program’s simple design, combined with local private investment and state funds, helps communities scale what works and adapt to emerging needs, ensuring resources reach districts of every size. Innovation is already making news.
The Franklin County Education Foundation’s industry partnership with Tango Flight will support the Franklin County School District, the first in Florida, to build an airplane, immersing students in aviation, engineering, and advanced manufacturing while aligning with regional workforce needs [ Watch the full story ].
The Pinellas County Education Foundation supports its district’s College and Career Centers, helping students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which opened Oct. 1, expanding access to grants, work-study, scholarships, and responsible loans; many accredited trade and technical programs also accept FAFSA, broadening pathways into high-skill careers [ Watch the full story ].
The 2025–26 awards build on strong results from last year. In 2024–25, the program drove a total investment of $18. 74 million , combining a $7 million state allocation with $12.
1 million in private-sector investment. Sixty school districts participated, and 109 projects were funded through local education foundations that collectively serve 99% of Florida’s K–12 public school students. These efforts directly benefited an estimated 2,075,009 students and 103,851 teachers , demonstrating statewide scale, measurable impact, and a durable return on public–private partnership.
The Consortium extends its appreciation to Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature for supporting this appropriation and making these outcomes possible. Local employers are essential partners in this work. By contributing to their county’s education foundation, businesses can have their dollars matched through the Matching Grant Program—directly supporting tomorrow’s workforce while strengthening today’s classrooms.
Employers interested in advancing talent pipelines in CTE, STEM, literacy, and college and career readiness can connect with their local education foundation to make an investment that multiplies impact, supports teachers, and opens doors for students.
Before the Beginning: The Vision for a Statewide Network The story of the Consortium began long before it formally became a nonprofit organization, when Florida’s education leaders recognized an 2026 ConnectED Spring Conference The Consortium’s 2026 Spring Conference brought together members from across the state for two days of learning, collaboration, and forward-thinking From Struggling Reader to Rising Confidence: How One Polk Student’s Growth Reflects a Countywide Literacy Impact In just four months, a third-grade student at Lena Vista Elementary gained 32 reading points, moving from Achievement Level 1
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.