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Teaching Tolerance Grants

For Teachers and Classrooms
Since 1997, we have awarded more than $1 million in funding to support classroom teachers' efforts to reduce prejudice, improve intergroup relations or support professional development in these areas. Learn more

For Schools and Districts
Launched in 2008, this new pool of grant funding is available to schools and districts that are undertaking projects to equalize students' experiences in schools and promote social justice. The application period for the 2008 grant cycle is closed. The next application period will be announced here. Learn more

Recently Funded Grants

These grant summaries describe some of the most recent projects we've funded. Our magazine's Grant Spotlight offers a deeper look at a successful grant-funded project.

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November 2008

We Celebrate Our Heritage
Dawn Thurmond of the El Paso Museum of History in El Paso, Texas, received a $2,500 Teaching Tolerance grant to support an ongoing collaboration with local educators to create opportunities for youth to gain understanding by sharing their diverse cultures and experiences.

We Are All One: Visions of Global Unity Through Art Making
Celia Deaton of Mt. Laurel Elementary School in Birmingham, Ala., received a $2,500 Teaching Tolerance grant to engage students in exploring their own cultural identities and shared values by seeking connection to artistic symbols from other cultures. Students will extend the research and discussion to refine their personal vision of unity, peace, diversity and harmony and then use art in a school-wide project to communicate the experience. They will create unity posters and discussion prompts to share with other district schools.

Learning Empathy Through Role Play
Michele McCracken of Stephenson Elementary School in Portland, Ore., received a $606 Teaching Tolerance grant for second grade students to create digital "storyboards" of real conflicts from their lives strengthening their conflict resolution skills. Students will connect across grade levels with fifth graders editing second graders’ storyboards and also brainstorming alternate responses and sharing their own experiences. Stories will then be shared with first grade students. "Digitales" will be posted on the class website promoting their work to other staff members as well as parents.

The Think Twice Project
Brenda Perryman of Southfield High School in Southfield, Mich., received a $2,453 Teaching Tolerance grant to support the "Think Twice Project" aimed at reducing violence among girls. Students will create and perform dramatic vignettes that educate students about conflict resolution. The skits will be presented at various schools, and a core group of students will have ongoing weekly meetings pairing the high school drama students with middle school at-risk girls. Students will use blogging and film as further means to deepen communication.

Stories for the People
Ann Henkes-Anderson of STMA Middle School in St. Michael, Minn. received a $500 Teaching Tolerance grant to use Diego Rivera murals to immerse students and the community into the Latin American culture. Students will be encouraged to use Spanish and English languages as they explore and discuss tolerance related issues of immigration, ethnicity and race depicted in the murals. Students will create their own multicultural murals in an after school Art Club.

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