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Kresge Foundation:
 
Scope:  The Kresge Foundation awards grants to build or renovate facilities,
purchase captial equipment or inteegrated systems worth at least $75,000,
and acquire real estate.  The foundation's areas of interest include social
services, health care, science and the environment, and arts and humanities.
 
Deadline:  None
 
Funds:  Kresge awarded nearly $57.8 million in 1990.
 
Eligibility:  Tax-exempt organizations
 
Contact:  Kresge Foundation, P.O. Box 3151, 3215 W. Big Beaver Rd., Troy,
Michigan  48007, (313)643-9630
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Ford Foundation
 
Scope:  Although the Ford Foundation is no longer accepting applications
unders its early childhood programs, it still will consider projects that
stengthen education institutes and the teaching profession, enhance the
quality of scholarship and teaching in selected fields, and broaden education
opportunities for disadvantaged students (EGA, Feb. 13).
 
Deadline:  None
 
Contact:  Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd St., New York, NY  10017,
(212)573-5169.  Guidelines on submitting proposals are available in the
report, "Current Interests,"  which is free from the Office of Communications,
same address and phone.
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Fund for Innovation In Education
 
Objective:  To support the development, implementation and dissemination of
innovative approaches to elementary and secondary education.
 
Deadline:  Will be announced in the Federal Register.  The program announce-
ment is expected in late March.
 
Contact:  Shirley Steele, Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and
Teaching, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Department of
Education, 555 New Jersey Ave., NW, Room 522, Washington, DC  20208-5524;
(202)219-1496.
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Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project
 
Scope:  The Annenberg Foundatin and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
are seeking applications for two competitions under their joint Math and
Science Project.
 
Annenberg/CPB also will accept proposals that do not fit under its specific
initiatives but concern widespread math and science education reform.
 
Deadline:  May 15 for the specific initiatives.  Annenberg/CPB will accept
preproposals for other projects at any time.
 
Funds:  $2.5 million for each initiative.
 
Eligibility:  School districts with successful model math and science reform
efforts may team up with other nonprofits and for-profits.
 
Contact:  Scott Roberts or Steve Ehrman, Annenberg/CPB Math and Science
Project, 901 E. Street, NW, Washington, DC  20004, (202)879-9654.
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Education Partnerships:  The Education Department hopes next month to
announce its fiscal 1993 competition for partnerships between education
institutions and private-sector entities to improve education and
enrich students' career awareness.
 
Deadline:  The deadline should fall about 60 days after the competition
announcement appears in the Federal Register.
 
Funds:  About $900,000 for new projects.
 
Eligibility:  Under rules ED proposed for the program in the Nov. 22 Federal
Register, partnerships would have to include a school district or a higher
education institution or both, plus at least one of the following:  a
business, community-based organization, private nonprofit agency, museum,
library, educational television or radio station, or state agency.
 
Contact:  Lois Weinberg, Education Department, 555 New Jersey Ave., NW.
Room 500, Washington, DC  20208 (202)219-2116.
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Developmental Bilingual Education:  The Education Department is offering grant
to establish, operate or improve developmental bilingual education programs.
 
ED is interested especially in projects emphasizing instruction in Arabic,
French, German, Hindustani, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish,
Vietnamese or one of the Chinese languages.  ED also is interested in
projects with an instructional approach emphasizing mathematics, science,
history or geography in addition to English.
 
Deadline:  April 3.
 
Funds:  2.8 million for about 16 awards of $75,000 to 300,000.
 
Eligibility:  Local Education agencies (LEAs) and higher education
institutions applying jointly with one or more LEAs.
 
Contact:  Socorro Lara or Rebecca Richey, Education Department, 400 Maryland
Ave. SW, Room 5086, Washington, DC  20202, (202)732-5700.
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