Polk County Public Schools, Staff
Program: The LEGO Children’s Fund will provide quarterly grants for programs, either in part or in total, with a special interest paid to collaborative efforts and in providing matching funds to leverage new dollars into the receiving organization. We will give priority consideration to programs that both meet our goals and are supported in volunteer time and effort by our employees.
The Foundation awards grants to qualified tax-exempt organizations (as determined under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue code) including educational organizations as defined in USC 26 § 170 (C) with specific, identifiable needs primarily in these areas of support: 1) early childhood education and development that is directly related to creativity and 2) technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunity. Click here for application procedures .
Award Max: Typical awards, however are between USD $500 and USD $5,000.
Contact: Website
Program: Digital Wish is now offering a program that matches teachers with donors. To find a donor, teachers must build a wish list of Digital Wish classroom technology products. Teachers may then tell their stories and share their lesson plan ideas. Prospective donors can review a classroom profile and donate funding or purchase a wish list item for a school. After each technology purchase, Digital Wish will automatically donate an additional 2-10% in immediate cash-back funding to the recipient school to fund their next technology project.
Deadline: Rolling
Funding/Award: Vary
Eligibility: Teachers
Contact: Web Site hyperlink - Technology Donors Program
Program: Wikis are simple group Web sites that are easy for anyone to edit. They are great for classrooms, work groups, clubs and more. Wikispaces provides easy-to-use hosted wikis. To encourage the use of wikis in education, Wikispaces is offering free wikis to K-12 teachers. These wikis can be public or private, have no advertising on them, provide unlimited usage, and are completely free.
Funding/Award: Free wikis
Eligibility: K-12 teachers
Contact: Web Site
HOW TO REQUEST ACCOMMODATIONS
If you require any type of accommodation to complete the application process due to a disability, please call the Human Resource Services Division at (863) 534-0781. If you are deaf or hard of hearing, please contact the Polk County School District by calling Florida Relay Service at 1-800-955- 8771.