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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Kellogg Foundation and Walmart Foundation provide funding for rural schools to get grants

Since rural schools don't have the same access to private funding as their urban counterparts, the Kellogg and Walmart foundations have committed $9 million to help provide required matching money for rural schools' Investing in Innovation (i3) applications to the U.S. Department of Education. Private donors have provided $500 million for a fund for all schools, to be paired with $650 million the department has allocated for the competitive grant program, it says in a news release.

The $500 million of private donations will be allocated in three broad categories: innovation in classroom funds, innovation in school model funds and sustainability of these innovations funds. In addition to the $9 million for rural application's private matching funds, the Rural School and Community Trust will providing technical assistance to rural communities to help them apply for i3 funding through a grant from the Kellogg Foundation. You can see our previous report on that program here.

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