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Carahsoft has created a new community for K-12 schools and districts designed to help education leaders navigate AI adoption and cyber readiness. MoreESSER funding, the post-COVID lifeline that enabled many districts to invest in data collection and research, is coming to an end. For districts that relied on those dollars to conduct surveys and gather community feedback, the impact is significant. More
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From budgeting for a Chromebook rollout to keeping up with new AI tools, managing Google for Education is a lot to carry, and it shouldn't have to be carried alone. This guide brings together tools, resources, and real district stories to help your team navigate and maintain your Google ecosystem with confidence. Cut through the overload with tools from Vivacity Tech, a certified Google for Education partner built for your entire Chromebook lifecycle. More
New & Upcoming K–12 Grants
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Sponsor: Association of American Educators Foundation
Award: $500
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: March 1 and October 1 of each year
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Sponsor: Association of American Educators Foundation
Award: $500
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: March 1 and October 1 of each year
Ongoing K–12 Grants
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Sponsor: Rural Technology Fund
Award: $500–$2,500
Number of Awards: Varies, every 30-60 days
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Pitsco Education
Award: $350 voucher for educators and $150 voucher for student teams, applicable to Pitsco products
Number of Awards: 1 educator and 1 student team per month
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Awesome Foundation
Award: $1,000
Number of Awards: Varies
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Cloudflare
Award: Free Zero Trust security program for K–12 schools with up to 2,500 students
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Inventionland Education
Award: Funds for Innovation Labs, professional development, and Innovation curriculum (varies by request)
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: Ongoing (rolling)
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Sponsor: Edthena
Award: Varies based on district size; matching grant
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: Ongoing (monthly reviews on the 30th of each month)
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Sponsor: Mobile Beacon
Award: Up to 25 laptops with one year of free 4G LTE high-speed internet each
Number of Awards: Varies
Application Deadline: Accepted year-round; awards granted on rolling basis
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Deadline: Ongoing (grants awarded on a rolling basis)
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Sponsor: Voya Financial
Award: $2,000 for each finalist plus $25,000 for one first place winner, $10,000 for one second place winner, and $5,000 for one third place winner
Number of Awards: 50
Application Deadline: April 19 of each year
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Sponsor: Toshiba America Foundation
Award: Two categories: Up to $5,000 and Over $5,000
Number of Awards: Varies
Application Deadline: For grants up to $5,000, deadline is March 1 of each year, and every three months thereafter; for grants over $5,000, deadline is May 1 and Nov. 1 of each year
Upcoming Award Opportunities
Upcoming Webinars
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Education IT teams are navigating an increasingly complex mix of systems, cloud services, applications, endpoints and third-party providers — often with limited staff and resources. The panel will share practical guidance for streamlining IT management, strengthening security, and building the operational resilience schools need to pursue strategic innovation — and better serve their institutional mission.
Date: Sept. 22, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Sponsor: Kaseya
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This session walks through the attacks schools are actually seeing, using real examples of business email compromise, account takeover, and payroll fraud. Abnormal AI will break down how each attack works in plain terms, why traditional defenses miss it, and what education leaders can do about it right now.
Date: Oct. 21, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Sponsor: Abnormal AI
Webinars on Demand
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Sponsor: Linewize
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Sponsor: Ooma
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Sponsor: Meter
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Sponsor: MGT
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Sponsor: Spectrum Enterprise a part of Charter Communications
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Sponsors: Broadcom and Carahsoft
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Each year, U.S. educators spend more than $1.5 billion out of pocket on technology, supplies and gear for their classroooms. K-12 Grant Alert helps connect educators with the resources they need to get the educational tools for their classrooms, from large-scale state and federal programs to corporate grants, competitions and sweepstakes specifically for K-12 schools. K-12 Grant Alert is published monthly.
Please direct any questions or comments about THE K-12 Grant Alert to [email protected]
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