veggie grant

The makers of Hidden Valley® Salad Dressings are awarding ten (10) ten thousand dollar ($10,000) grants to elementary schools across the United States to support programs that help provide students with increased access to, and consumption of fresh, healthy foods made available through an on-campus vegetable consumption program.

 

Each grant award will support an elementary school in developing a vegetable program offering fresh produce to be implemented as early as April 2010 and lasting through the 2010-2011 school year. Each school grant will consist of $10,000 in direct funding.*

 

All applications must be submitted via the grant program’s Web site, www.LoveYourVeggies.com. Applications must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Nov. 6, 2009. Late applications will not be accepted. Schools will be notified of their award status soon after Feb. 15, 2010, with a target date of no later than March 1, 2009. A public announcement of all 10 winners will be made in April 2010.

 

 

Grants.gov Updates - Webinar Registration & Archives

Grants.gov and Recovery Act Webinar Series

Webinar registration is now open for Series 2 and 3.

August 18, 2009, 3:00 – 4:00 P.M. ET - Series 2: Finding Recovery Act Opportunities

August 20, 2009, 3:00 – 4:00 P.M. ET - Series 3: Registration to Submit Recovery Act Opportunities

To register for these webinars and to view the archives of Series 1 and the presentation in partnership with FedBizOpps.gov, please visit: http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11258845&msgid=201109&act=15RO&c=171570&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grants.gov%2Fapplicants%2Frecovery_webinar.jsp.

Stimulus webinar

Stimulus: The Second Wave
This event is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, 2pm to 3pm EST.
The US Dept of Education is gearing up to award $5 billion from the federal economic-sitmulus package to school districts, states and education non profit organizations through several competitive grant programs.
What are the requirements for Race to the Top, innovation and other grant programs?
How can leaders best compete for those awards? And how can the money be used to drive education reform?
Presenter:
Joanne Weiss: Race to the Top Director at the US Dept of Education.
Susan A. Gendron: Maine's commissioner of education and board president of the Council of Chief State School Officers.
No phone is necessary to participate; an archive version will be available within 24 hours of the presentation.