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NC SC Education Grants & Funding | The Leon Levine Foundation Ensuring youth from historically marginalized communities and low-income families are prepared, supported and motivated to learn by providing access to the resources required for academic achievement, post-secondary attainment and life-long success. Opportunity and education are inextricably linked.
By investing in individuals from historically marginalized communities and low-income families across North Carolina and South Carolina from birth until they obtain post-secondary education, the Foundation seeks to end generational poverty. Through education foundation grants, the Foundation partners with organizations utilizing evidence-based interventions to eliminate or mitigate obstacles to academic achievement.
Education investment priorities reflect this mission area’s intersection with the Human Services and Healthcare mission areas to promote a holistic, family-centered approach to education as an avenue to self-sufficiency. Providing early childhood education funding for initiatives that are proven to set young people on a trajectory for life-long success.
Early childhood grants in NC and SC focus on programs that 1) Provide foundational skills for early learning such as reading, 2) Empower and engage parents, and 3) Foster social and emotional development while addressing the impacts of childhood trauma. Student Stability Supports Addressing personal and non-academic needs to improve classroom learning.
Grants in this category are made with the knowledge that students learn best when their basic needs are being met. Nonprofit funding is allocated for food, shelter, healthcare, out of school time programming, and educational tools to ensure students have a safe environment and the chance to experience greater family stability. Encouraging youth to build self-confidence, overcome past trauma, and pursue new possibilities.
Grants in this category fund mentoring and youth development organizations that give young people access to caring adults, peer-to-peer networks, and/or upward mobility. Initiatives also encompass counseling, financial aid guidance, and college selection resources to increase high school graduation rates and post-secondary enrollment.
Emphasizing the value of post-secondary education for first-generation students and those living below the poverty level. Grants in this category help students and their families navigate college life, enroll in summer bridge programs, and work to enhance college retention and graduation rates.
Closing the Achievement Gap (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Region) Targeting Mecklenburg County programs and interventions to aid students in closing the achievement gap. Grants in this category are currently reserved for the Charlotte region, where there is a persistent disparity in the academic performance and educational attainment between different groups of students, especially lower-income students and their more affluent peers.
Research and science show the greatest amount of brain growth occurs between birth and age five. A child’s preparedness to learn and succeed academically is shaped from the moment they are born. Youth need healthy relationships and role models to excel both in and out of the classroom.
Studies have found that those without a degree (associate’s or higher) are significantly more likely to live below the poverty level. Clearing the path to post-secondary degree attainment is a critical key to unlocking future mobility. Educational programs should intersect with a community’s human services and healthcare priorities; a holistic and whole-family approach to education can end the cycle of generational poverty.
Representative Education Grantees Augustine Literacy Project-Charlotte Augustine Literacy Project-Charlotte Boys and Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry, Inc. Boys and Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry, Inc. Charlotte Bilingual Preschool Charlotte Bilingual Preschool Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc. Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc. Crosby Scholars Community Partnership Crosby Scholars Community Partnership Ready for School, Ready for Life Ready for School, Ready for Life YMCA of Greater Charlotte YMCA of Greater Charlotte
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Organizations utilizing evidence-based interventions to eliminate or mitigate obstacles to academic achievement for youth from historically marginalized communities and low-income families in North and South Carolina. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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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.