MiniGrants from Brown, Rudnick

Check out this opportunity for teachers to get support for their best ideas:

The Community Grant Program proceeds from the premise that those involved on the front lines of the educational system, “below” management level, often have unique insight into small but significant needs or innovations that are often overlooked and which, with foresight and focus, could be addressed in the near future to make a positive difference to the community served.

The purposes of the Community Grant Program are to simultaneously (1) encourage those involved broadly with the Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest to actively think about the educational needs in the communities of Boston, Hartford, New York City and Providence, (2) recognize, encourage and collaborate with the front-line workers within the educational system who often do not have a voice in funding decisions, and (3) provide funding to assist with small, concrete projects or needs which will make an improvement in inner city education in Boston, Hartford, New York City or Providence within a year of the grant award.

The Foundation shall generally consider grant applications monthly and award grants in an amount totaling not more than two thousand dollars ($2000) in any one month.