Helping
You Find Grant Answers
To Your Education
Technology Questions
The Cisco Grants
Strategy Team:
helping to secure
funding for technology
solutions that support vital
community programs.
This document outlines
several programs the
Grants Strategy Team
supports in areas
of education.
Higher Education
H-1B Technical Skills Training Grants
Provides education, training, and job placement assistance in the occupations and
industries for which employers are using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers, and the
related activities necessary to support such training.
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants
Program (TAACCCT)
Contributes to community college practices through development and evaluation
of innovative program models that provide workers with the education and skills
to succeed in high-wage, high-skill occupations.
Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
Promotes improvement of science and engineering technicians at the
undergraduate and secondary school levels. Proposals to the program may
aim to affect specialized technology courses or core science, mathematics,
and technology courses that serve as immediate prerequisites or co-requisites
for specialized technology courses.
Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF)
Supports projects that seek to use evidence to design program strategies.
WIF provides grants to states, local workforce areas, and entities eligible for
Section 166 Indian and Native American Program grants.
K-12
21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC)
Supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic
enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly
students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools.
School Improvement Grants (SIG)
Gives grants to educational agencies (SEAs). SEAs then use these grants to
make competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) that demonstrate
the greatest need for the funds and the strongest commitment to use the funds
to provide adequate resources in order to raise substantially the achievement
of students in their lowest-performing schools.
Helping
You Find
Grant Answers
To Your
Education
Technology
Questions
Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies (Title I, Part A)
Provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with
high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help
ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (Part B)
Assist states in providing a free appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least
restrictive environment for children with disabilities ages 3 through 21.
Investing in Innovation (i3)— Development Grants
The i3 Development Competition challenges K-12 Educational organizations to
develop and expand on proven research based models through eight absolute
priorities established by the Department of Education.
Investing in Innovation (i3)—Scale-Up Grants
Applicants for Scale-Up grants must estimate the number of students to be reached
by the proposed project and provide evidence of its capacity to reach the proposed
number of students during the course of the grant.
Investing in Innovation (i3)— Validation Grants
Validation grants provide funding to support practices, strategies, or programs that
show promise, but for which there is currently only moderate evidence (as defined
in the grant instructions) that the proposed practice, strategy, or program will have
a statistically significant effect on improving student achievement or student growth.
Race to the Top-District
Build on the lessons learned from the RttT State competitions conducted and
supports bold, locally directed improvements in learning and teaching that will
directly improve student achievement and educator effectiveness.
Promise Neighborhoods Program: Planning and Implementation Grants
The purpose of the Promise Neighborhoods program is to significantly improve
the educational and developmental outcomes of children and youth in our most
distressed communities, and to transform those communities
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs: Partnership Grants
Designed to significantly increase the number of low-income students who are
prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.
To learn more about Educational Technology solutions and available grant funding,
please contact your Cisco® Account Manager or Regional Grants Manager at
grantquestions@cisco.com
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