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Find similar grantsFuture Focus Foundation Grants is sponsored by Future Focus Foundation. Provides scholarships and industry partnerships to prepare and encourage Central Virginia students in K-12 and beyond to seek careers in STEM fields.
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Preparing Students for Sci-Tech Careers Generating a Regional STEM Talent Pipeline “To prepare and encourage Central Virginia students in K-12 and beyond to seek careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and to provide a pipeline for a technically and scientifically proficient workforce.
” Building the Jobs of the Future Supporting Innovative Teaching "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." Empowering Educators: How Robotics Training Transformed Central Virginia Classrooms GO Research!
Travels to Amherst County STEM Nights Cheryl Lindeman Apr 22, 2025 Cheryl Lindeman Apr 1, 2025 June 9th STEM Educators Em"bark" on a Journey Cheryl Lindeman May 11, 2023 The Future Focus Foundation was established as a non-profit corporation with the Commonwealth of Virginia on August 4, 2009.
The founders gathered business leaders and educators across Central Virginia’s Region 2000 “To prepare and encourage Central Virginia students in K-12 and beyond to seek careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and to provide a pipeline for a technically and scientifically proficient workforce.
” As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, grants and projects are funded by regional, state, and national partners. Current officers have extensive work and passion for STEM fields. Cheryl Lindeman, the president, served as Partnership Coordinator & Instructor at Central Virginia Governor’s School, teacher educator at Randolph College, and is currently a STEM consultant with Smithsonian Science in the classroom.
Cheryl Giggetts, Principal Consultant at CTA Consultants LLC, is very involved with Innovate Lynchburg and STEM business connections. Lani Patrick, Instructional Specialist for Science K-12 with Campbell County Public Schools is a leader in Virginia science education and our region.
Susan Cash serves as Lynchburg Regional Governor’s STEM Academy and is connected with the state-of-the-art technologies associated with CVCC’s STEM laboratories. In October 2022 we welcomed three new board members who bring a wealth of experience, dedication, and interest in STEM education. Susan Saxon represents AMTI Advanced Manufacturing “committed to empowering our community through education.
” Allison Kappler is currently the Supervisor of Science and Computer Science with Bedford County Public Schools. She is also a facilitator and curriculum writer with CodeVA. Gage McAngus served as a public school teacher and administrator for 13 years and brings valuable education experience to his role as Programs Director at Camp Kum-Ba-Yah in Lynchburg, VA.
Director || Media Coordinator Hannah Tillotson is the STEM Center Director at Jubilee Family Development Center. She has been involved with 4-H as a camper and educator and serves as a Conservation Educator for the local Soil and Water Conservation District. Pam Reed is mechanical and nuclear engineer at Framatome.
She is currently the president of Framatome's chapter of Women in Nuclear and has served in a leadership capacity with the chapter since 2018, focused on advocacy, education and outreach. Josh Chamot is a science communicator with over 20 years at the National Science Foundation, where he supported research in fields from quantum computing to cancer treatment.
Most recently NSF’s Media Officer for AI, he brings expertise in public outreach, media strategy, and STEM advocacy to his work with the Future Focus Foundation.
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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.