CORPORATE GRANT EDUCATIONALTECHNOLOGY GRANT ThinkQuest USA Invites Teacher &Classroom Participation in Website Content & Development Program Deadline: June 27, 2003 http://www.thinkquest.org/tqusa/thinkquest_ww@oracle.com ThinkQuest USA, sponsored by the Oracle Help Us Help Foundation, is offered to teachers and students interested in participating in a program to build educational websites. It is a classroom based online collaborative student centered program.  Applications for the TRIO ThinkQuest 2003 Internet Challenge may be submitted via the TRIO ThinkQuest Web site between Monday, March 10, 2003 and the application deadline of Tuesday, July 22, 2003. The teachers and students form teams around the project of their choosing and the result is an educational website. The team, in the course of participating in this program will explore and add to growing sources of educational information on the Internet for kids by kids. ThinkQuest USA teaches technology, research and collaboration skills. Teachers are invited to apply. Prizes for winners in each website division include computer notebook computers, t-shirts and other prizes offered by the Oracle Help Us Help Foundation. $20,000 in Four $5,000 Grants in Dollar General's Back-to-School Grant For Equipment, Supplies or Software Deadline: August 15, 2003 www.dollargeneral.com/community/communityinvestments.aspx The Dollar General Back-to-School grant program will award four $5,000 grants to assist schools in meeting some of the financial challenges they face in implementing new programs or purchasing new equipment, materials or software for their school library or literacy program. To apply for a Back-to-School grant, print the online Back-to-School application form www.dollargeneral.com/community/BackToSchoolGrants.pdf and submit it along with a letter stating why your school deserves a $5,000 Back-to-School grant from Dollar General for your school's library or literacy related program on or before August 15, 2003. Grants will be announced by September 12, 2003.

Staples Foundation for Learning Grants Seek to Support Job Skills Deadline: June 30, 2003; September 5, 2003; March 4, 2004 http://www.staplesfoundation.org/foundapplication.html Email: foundationinfo@staples.com The Staples foundation considers educational funding to be an investment with a goal to help local groups, with programs and services that will positively impact their community every day. The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. 3COM - EVISTA TeacherPrep Grants Deadline: November 3, 2003 http://www.evistaconsulting.co To help train K-12 teachers use technology and the Internet effectively in the classroom, 3COM Corporation invites applications for free TeacherPrep scholarships to be given to 100 school districts in partnership with Evista Consulting Group. The technology training will take place between November 3 and November 14, 2003 and incorporate audio, slide presentations, electronic learning resources, on-line meetings, and common desktop software. Docutek Enhancing Learning Through the Web Communications Grants Deadline: July 17, 2003 http://www.docutek.com/company/Docutek _Announces_Grant_Program_for_Public_School _Systems.pdf Contact: Phil Kesten at pkesten@docutek.com or(650) 989-6358 and Julie McHenry at julie@docutek.com or (650) 347-1333 Grant recipients will be awarded a customized version of Docutek’s web-basd school information sharing system, Docutek atSchool, for two years. Remote Web hosting of the system is included, training and access to a users group of current and past grant recipients and teachers and technology specialists at all the schools using the system. Public schools and districts, and local and regional boards of education are eliglble to apply. A 3-page application should include Contact information; Demographics; Role of Technology and Participation Plan. More details may be found at the website.