The Teaching American History Grant program is a discretionary grant program funded under Title II-C, Subpart 4 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The goal of the program is to support programs that raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history. Grant awards will assist local educational agencies (LEAs), in partnership with entities that have extensive content expertise, to design, implement, and demonstrate effective, research-based professional development programs. Application deadline: February 4, 2004.

The Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center offers grants of up to $2,000 to K-12 classroom teachers for implementing tolerance and youth activism projects in their schools and communities. Proposals from other educators such as community organizations and churches will be considered on the basis of direct student impact. Proposal deadline: ongoing.

For the fifth consecutive year, 3M, in cooperation with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), will donate $1.5 million in 3M Detection Systems and Tattle-Tape Security Strips to 100 middle and high school library media centers in the United States. To be considered for the donation, a school must meet eligibility requirements and be able to demonstrate a need for a detection system. Individual donations will vary depending upon specific needs of the library media center, such as the size of a collection and the physical layout. Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2004.

The Grantionary is a list of grant-related terms and their definitions.

GrantsAlert is a website that helps nonprofits, especially those involved in education, secure the funds they need to continue their important work.

SchoolGrants has compiled an excellent set of grant writing tips for those that need help in developing grant proposals.

FastWEB is the largest online scholarship search available, with 600,000 scholarships representing over one billion in scholarship dollars. It provides students with accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants, and fellowships suited to their goals and qualifications, all at no cost to the student. Students should be advised that FastWEB collects and sells student information (such as name, address, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, and country of citizenship) collected through their site.

More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE website.

Content counts, of course, writes Dorothy Rich, but in teaching and learning, it is far from everything. In her view, the education myth that is still strong, despite all that we know now about the intricacies of learning, is that somehow learning is a straight line: a teacher teaches, a student learns.

A comprehensive website dedicated to providing nonprofit organizations, colleges, and Universities with information on financial resources available on the Internet.

Information on up-to-the-minute grant programs, funding sources, and technology funding.

Philanthropy News Digest, a weekly news service of the Foundation Center, is a compendium, in digest form, of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide.

A collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and obtain special grants for a variety of projects.