Grants
Can’t afford to bring Lori Calabrese to your classroom? Looking for funding?
- Consider teaming up with a nearby school to split costs
- Host a fund-raiser through your PTA
- Apply for a grant! Many foundations and organizations provide grants that will cover or partially cover the cost of an author visit.
- Grant writing can be intimidating to those who are new at it and finding suitable grant opportunities requires a great deal of time and research.
- School Grants reduces the effort by listing a variety of opportunities available to public and private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and districts across the United States.
-So You Want to Write a Grant shares all the ‘how to’ resources to writing a grant - Other helpful places for Grant information:
-U.S. Dep’t of Education
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 101 (ALA website)
- Verizon Foundation Grants
-Grants Alert.com
-Target Foundation
-Adopt A Classroom
-Amber Brown SCBWI Grant
-Educational Enrichment Foundation
-The Maureen Hayes Author/illustrator Award
-Donors Choose - State Organizations:
-Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
1 Constitution Plaza, second floor
Hartford, CT 06103
(860)256-2800
-Massachusetts Cultural Council
10 St. James Ave. , 3rd Floor
Boston, Ma. 02116-3803
(617) 727-3668
-New York State Council on the Arts
175 Varick St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10014
(212) 627-4455
- Grant writing can be intimidating to those who are new at it and finding suitable grant opportunities requires a great deal of time and research.










