FundingSources

This page is to help organisations seeking grant, private, government funding around FOSS and education.

Source

Description

Link

Notes

Dell

Corporate funding program

http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/corp-comm/global-giving.aspx

Dell's Youth connect program

ARAA

US Government program

http://www.acer.us/education/ARRA_guide.htm

this link is to the Acer site but also includes links to report on Federal funding in education programs

Mozilla

Support for open web, education, learning projects

http://www.mozilla.org/grants/

Also see their drumbeat festival

Granstalert

website listing of upcoming grants

http://www.grantsalert.com/

looks promising

Donors choose

vote for projects to fund

http://www.donorschoose.org/

monthly listings

Kickstarter

Fund & follow projects

http://www.kickstarter.com/

lots of great projects, good stories

Mission Fish

eBay and paypal make it easy to donate to your fav cause

http://www.missionfish.org/

yeah!

Other big names off the top of my head, worth investigating:

  • Target - does local giving
  • Wal-mart - local small grants
  • Hewlett Foundation
  • Mellon Foundation

Link to Educational Conferences:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Education/Conferences

Education/FundingSources (last edited 2010-09-24 15:45:27 by c-98-195-219-156)