Funding opportunities, grants, and recognition awards.
Bow Seat’s 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest—Your Story, Our Ocean: How Our Ocean Sustains, Protects, and Inspires Us—invites youth between the ages of 11 and 18 to think about their personal connection to the ocean—whether they are coastal or landlocked. How does the ocean sustain, protect, and inspire them? What value does the ocean bring to all our lives?
It’s commonly said that pictures are worth a thousand words. As our nation’s Semiquincentennial approaches, young people around the country are doing the talking through multimedia portraits of their local communities.
Free expression means the right to reveal important truths. A documentary is an invaluable tool that can empower anyone with as little as a cellphone to do just that. The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the New York Film Academy (NYFA) have announced the 22nd annual Youth Free Expression Film Contest.
Over the course of history, millions of Americans and other freedom-loving people around the world fought to stop evil. The American Battle Monuments Foundation (ABMF) invites students to learn how and why—and compete for prize money up to $10,000 with a winning essay.
At a time when civic literacy and ethical leadership are more important than ever, the Museum of Political Corruption has launched its 1st Annual “Making Corruption History” High School Essay Contest, inviting students across the United States to explore the importance of integrity, accountability, and civic responsibility.
Future City is a hands-on cross-curricular educational program presented by DiscoverE that brings STEM to life for students in grades 6–12. Future City starts with a question: How can we make the world a better place? To answer it, students use the engineering design process and project management skills to imagine and build cities of the future that showcase their solution to a citywide sustainability issue.
What do polygons sound like? What rhythms do different fractions make? The unique music tools in Polypad provide a whole new dimension for students and teachers to interact with mathematics.
With more than $6 million in awarded grants, the Voya Unsung Heroes Awards Program has proven to be an A+ program with educators. The program’s “alumni” have inspired success in the classroom and impacted countless numbers of students.
Join the financial literacy movement! Intuit is challenging middle school and high school educators nationwide to bring one hour of financial literacy into the classroom.
The McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation promotes best practices through cooperative and sustained commitment to improved teaching and active learning. As such, the foundation values proposals aimed at concurrently boosting student understanding and proficiency and instilling a passion for lifelong learning.