Grant funding for education is imperative to the success of every STEM lab
Finding grant opportunities and information about possible funders, however, can be extremely daunting. The good news is there are dozens of grant funding for education resources available and we here at AET Labs are actively searching to identify opportunities to support our customer’s educational needs. With a particular focus on STEM technologies, we have compiled a list of grant opportunities available to educators and institutions from K-12 to Higher Ed in New England. Please refer to grant websites for updates on application deadlines.
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AIAA Foundation Classroom Grant Program
The AIAA Foundation believes that one of the most significant means to inspire and advance the future of Aerospace is to fund grants to meet the unmet and unfunded educational need of students. Each school year, AIAA awards grants of up to $500 to worthy projects that significantly influence student learning.
Funds are available for educational institutions to aid in the development of programs that promote renewable energy, environmental sustainability, and earth stewardship.
American Welding Society Welding Workforce Grant
The AWS Foundation is committed to securing the future of the welding industry by positively impacting welding education. Grants of up to $25,000 are available to improve and expand training programs and institutions to increase the number of welding graduates across the country. Schools must be an AWS Educational Institution Member.
The Dr. Scholl Foundation was established by William M. Scholl, M.D. in 1947, almost 40 years after he founded the foot care company. It is a private, independent grant-making foundation for charitable purposes. This foundation offers grants for specific areas, including education.
Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence
This annual award recognizes outstanding skilled trades teachers in U.S. public high schools. The prize is designed to shine a light on excellent skilled trades education and build a network of exceptional trades teachers. A total of $1.5 million to 25 teachers will be awarded.
IGT After School Advantage Program
The After School Advantage (ASA) program is IGT’s flagship community initiative, devoted to providing young people with access to technology in a safe, nurturing afterschool environment, while promoting opportunities in digital learning centers in communities where the Company operates.
Motorola Solutions Foundation Grants
The grants support initiatives from engaging students through hands-on engineering activities like computer science, coding and robotics to providing scholarship and workforce placement for underrepresented and underserved groups.
The PLTW Grant Program provides PreK-12 districts and schools with competitive grants to support the implementation or expansion of PLTW programs through partnerships with leading organizations across the country.
Applications to the Reiman Foundation need to adhere to one of four focus areas, which is includes education, the arts, children, and health care.
A nationwide contest designed to boost interest and proficiency in science, technology, engineering and math, and challenges public school teachers and students in grades 6-12 to show how STEM can be applied to help improve their communities. Prize packages range from $2,500 to $100,000
Grants support the encouragement of the creative, artistic, technical and scientific skills required of tomorrow's workforce.
SPIE Education Outreach Grants Program
Provides support for optics and photonics related education outreach activities. Award maximum is $5,000.
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants Program
These grants should build the capacity of community colleges to equitably increase employment through educational and economic opportunity, by focusing on specific industry sectors and career pathways that will lead to more rapid reskilling and (re)employment in quality jobs.
Offers grants to teachers who are passionate about making STEM more engaging for their students in grades 6-12. Grant requests are accepted for projects over and under $5,000.
Each year, 50 educators are selected to receive $2,000 to help fund their innovative class projects. Three of those are chosen to receive the top awards of an additional $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000.
Contributes to programs and projects that improve the quality of life in the most impactful ways possible with a focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and basic needs, such as food, shelter, first aid, and healthcare.
Walmart Spark Good Local Grants
Each year, Walmart U.S. stores, Sam’s Clubs and Distribution Centers award local cash grants ranging from $250 to $5,000. K-12 public or nonprofit private schools, community colleges, private colleges, and public universities are eligible.
Education Grants for Massachusetts
Supports programs focused on improving STEM educational opportunities and academic development for K-12 students who are economically disadvantaged. Must target the needs of economically disadvantaged populations within 60 miles of Cambridge, Marlborough, or Quincy.
Brookline Education Foundation
Designed to promote cooperative efforts across disciplines, across grade levels, and among schools.
The Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation
Fund specific, one-time needs or ideas which will improve education in underserved communities in Boston.
CEF supports grants that focus on pilot projects, curriculum enhancement, one-time capital projects, and technology for which funding is not otherwise available within the school district budget.
Gloucester Education Foundation
Grant applications are encouraged for programs/projects that promote innovation, enrichment, community collaboration, and increased student achievement.
Groton-Dunstable Education Foundation
Provides private funding for innovative, inspiring programs and opportunities.
Innovation Career Pathways are designed to give students coursework and experience in a specific high-demand industry, such as information technology, engineering, healthcare, life sciences and advanced manufacturing.
Lexington Education Foundation
Grants fund the development and piloting of teaching approaches and materials that will enrich learning in any subject, initiatives designed to meet the learning needs and abilities of diverse students, professional development activities that relate directly to educators' classroom teaching, and programs that address educational and community-building priorities.
The goal of the educator assistance program is to support innovation and re-imagination in the classroom and to provide professional development opportunities for our educators.
MassCEC Climate-Critical Workforce Training, Equipment and Infrastructure
This grant increases access to modern, relevant training equipment and infrastructure to scale career pathways and upskill Massachusetts residents to advance in climate-critical priority occupations. Awards are available for career pathway training ($800,000), climate-critical upskilling ($600,000), and equipment and infrastructure ($750,000).
This grant is to help organizations build and scale career pathways leading to climate-critical priority occupations for individuals from Environmental Justice (EJ) neighborhoods or low-income communities. Awards are available for career pathway training (up to $1,200,000) and career awareness (up to $400,000).
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center: STEM Equipment and Professional Development Grant Program
The STEM Equipment and Professional Development Grant Program helps to further advance and expand life sciences education at Massachusetts public high schools and middle schools through the implementation of project and inquiry-based curriculum. High schools can request funding for up to $85,000 for equipment and supplies and $15,000 for professional development.
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center: Workforce Development Capital Grant Program
The Workforce Development Capital Grant Program seeks to seed, enhance and/or expand training programs that address critical skills and talent supply gaps facing the state’s life science industry. Award funding of up to $750,000 per institution is given for the purchase and installation of life sciences equipment, lab furniture, materials, supplies, and/or technology that will enable them to effectively prepare students for high-demand career opportunities in the life sciences
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center: Pathmaker
The MLSC launched Pathmaker to further the development and expansion of life science career training programs. Pathmaker will award direct funding to support organizations that can build and scale career pathways that effectively prepare students for high-demand career opportunities in the life sciences
Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant Program
Awards grants for the purchase and installation of equipment and related improvements and renovations necessary for installation and use of such equipment to support vocational and technical training that are aligned to regional economic and workforce development priorities for in-demand industries. Grants range from $50,000-$1,500,000 awards.
Funding for innovative ideas that provide new learning opportunities for students and staff.
Newburyport Education Foundation
The Partnership Grant program connects teachers and business partners who then work together to create meaningful educational experiences that allow students to see how their skills apply to the world of work.
Considers any creative project that falls within the mission of NSF and contributes substantially to the Newton Public Schools.
Northhampton Education Foundation
The Endowment Fund is seeking to fund multiple innovative projects aimed at having a lasting impact on the town's schools.
Westinghouse Charitable Giving Program
Grants are awarded to initiatives that enhance STEM subjects and spark interest in STEM-related careers. Schools must be within 50 miles of the Westinghouse locations in Hingham, Weymouth, and Norwell.
WFEE offers three grant programs for individuals and collaborative groups: education grants, professional development grants and student innovation grants.
Education Grants for Connecticut
The Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation
Fund specific, one-time needs or ideas which will improve education in underserved communities in Hartford.
Coginchaug Valley Education Foundation
Supports educational programs for all citizens of Durham and Middlefield. Grants should focus on innovation, excellence and creativity for citizens of any age. Grants usually range from $200 to $3,000.
Montville Education Foundation
Funds projects and programs which augment and enrich the curriculum and programs already in place or that bring new educational opportunities to the town’s residents and do not supplant programs traditionally funded by the district, state or federal budgets. Grant awards range from $500 to $10,000.
NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium
Offers funding to K-12 students/teachers, including workshops for aeronautics and aerospace and STEM-related activities.
North Stonington Education Fund
Offers grants to educators and others that will facilitate and reward innovative approaches to learning and to the development of North Stonington School District students and the community.
Southington Education Foundation
The grants and programs allow educators to improve the quality of public education above and beyond the conventional curriculum, identifying and addressing needs, challenges, and concerns unique to their students.
Provides funding for educational enrichment programs and helps improve the quality of public education above and beyond conventional curriculum funded by local, state and federal sources.
Westinghouse Charitable Giving Program
Grants are awarded to initiatives that enhance STEM subjects and spark interest in STEM-related careers. Schools must be within 50 miles of the Westinghouse locations in Windsor.
Awards grants designed to support programs, projects and activities that enhance creativity and/or harness the use of technology in order to expand educational opportunities for Weston students and residents.
Woodstock Education Foundation
Intended to benefit students and enable teachers to enhance and enrich educational programs, and encourage superlative instruction and creative, innovative curriculum development.
Education Grants for Rhode Island
Barrington Education Foundation
Grant applications are welcome from any faculty or staff member within the Barrington School District. Collaboration across classrooms, grades, and schools is highly encouraged.
Bristol Warren Education Foundation
Provides grant funding to teachers and staff in the Bristol Warren Regional School District for innovative, high-quality programs that enhance and enrich students' educational experience, and that are outside the scope of existing school budgets.
Supports schools in Rhode Island that provide equitable access to experience and learning, whether its funding equipment for a classroom innovation or grants toward building infrastructure.
The Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation
Funds specific, one-time needs or ideas which will improve education in underserved communities in Providence.
Education Grants for New Hampshire
New Hampshire Department of Education Robotics Education Development Grant
The primary purpose of these grants is to motivate public and charter school students to pursue educational and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, while building critical life and work-related skills. This grant is to support financing the establishment of a robotics team and its participation in competitive events.
Their goal is to strive for excellence in education by creating opportunities for educators to “push the envelope” by piloting cutting-edge programs and innovative teaching practices that advance the curriculum goals of the district.
Westinghouse Charitable Giving Program
Grants are awarded to initiatives that enhance STEM subjects and spark interest in STEM-related careers. Schools must be within 50 miles of the Westinghouse locations in Newington.
Education Grants for Vermont
Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships
The Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships funds project costs associated with engaged partnerships between organizations and the University of Vermont. Through this funding initiative, UVM joins as partners with Vermont leaders who are working towards impactful solutions to rural challenges.
The J. Warren & Lois McClure Foundation
The mini-grant program awards $250-$2,500 to schools, libraries, and community organizations that help young Vermonters plan and prep for life after high school.
Grants are awarded to support educational programs, local food initiatives, land conservation for public use, environmental protection, social services, cultural resources, and historic preservation. Priority is given to small, community-based organizations.
Westinghouse Charitable Giving Program
Grants are awarded to initiatives that enhance STEM subjects and spark interest in STEM-related careers. Schools must be within 50 miles of the Westinghouse locations in Bratteboro.
Education Grants for Maine
Assist institutions in supporting more effective teaching and learning and/or controlling costs.
Education Foundation of the Kennebunks and Arundel
Foundation grants are intended to further creativity, innovation and excellence in the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Arundel public schools. The ultimate goal of EFKA grants is to stimulate student learning. Grant amounts have varied from $200 to $20,000.
Supports academics, athletics, and the arts throughout the Falmouth, Maine Community.
Support programs that encourage a thirst for knowledge, respect for the community, and responsible citizenship.
Supports education projects that are large-scale and generate transformative, enduring contributions to Maine and its economy.
The Libra Foundation, based in Portland, Maine, was created by Elizabeth Noyce in 1989 and has made significant contributions to worthy causes throughout the State of Maine. In most cases, grants will not exceed $25,000.
Marshwood Education Foundation
Supports innovation and excellence in the RSU 35 school districts with programs and teaching practices that enhance students’ learning experiences.
Scarborough Education Foundation
Grants are awarded for the purpose of supporting innovative and creative initiatives that will enhance the curriculum for students in grades K-12 of the Scarborough public schools.
Grant Directories
A list of grants opportunities from the Department of Defense.
An invaluable resource with a comprehensive compilation of thousands of identified grant opportunities.
A database featuring current grants, funding opportunities, awards, contracts, and archived grants from foundations, corporations, federal, state, and local government funding sources.
A list of funding opportunities from the National Science Foundation, in categories including computer and information science and engineering, engineering, and environmental research and education,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A list of funding opportunities related to agriculture.
A list of funding opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education.
A list of funding opportunities for workforce development and training.
