GRANTS: Act Now to Apply for a Target Field Trip Grant for the 2011-2012 School Year!

Learning opportunities extend far beyond the classroom. But many schools are finding it more and more difficult to bring students to theaters, museums, historical sites and cultural organizations. Field Trip Grants help give children these unique, firsthand learning experiences.

Check out the Target^® Field Trip Grants program. 

Target is working with non-profit organizations to spread the word about Field Trip Grants. This year, Target will award 5,000 grants of up to $700 to help fund field trips to great educational destinations—like the Ordway's Center for the Performing Arts, for example!

The grant deadline is only 38 days away!

Visit Target.com/grants for details. 

If you have any questions about how to organize a fun, memorable field trip with us, call the Ordway Education hot line at 651-282-3115!

Scholarship Opportunity from The NABE Foundation

The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Foundation is awarding its fourth annual Americans for the Arts scholarship to promote Arts integration in the economic education process to create an arts and business partnership. The scholarship is $5,000 and will be awarded on September 10th at the NABE Convention in Dallas, TX.

Requirements:
The award recipient must come from an economic disadvantaged household, have attended a public school, participated in extracurricular programs including (and/or in addition to) programs supported by the American for the Arts (i.e. demonstrate a long term participation in the study of, creation in and/or performance in one or more art forms, including dance, music, theatre, literary, visual/media arts), excelled academically, and formally declared intent to study and apply economics in their pursuit of higher education and professional career. This includes the direct study of economics for policy purposes, to applications in the private and public sectors.

For more information and the application form, visit the NABE Foundation:
http://nabefoundation.com/docs/2011%20NABE%20Guidelines%20Application.pdf