Foundation / Corporation
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF)
02/08/19 11:59 PM EST
Grants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 to USA K-12 public schools, charter schools, and nonprofit parent-teacher groups to enhance school resources and facilities. Funding may be requested for technology upgrades, facility renovations, tools for STEM programs, and safety improvements. Preference will be given to requests that have a permanent impact.
GrantWatch ID#: 176770
$5,000,000
Grants will be made to as many as 1,000 different public schools per school year.
From $2,000 to $5,000
Lowe's will only consider grants for projects that will be completed within one year of when the grant is received. Multi-year requests are not considered.
A Toolbox grant can be used as part of a large-scale project, like a playground, as long as the grant will be used to complete a phase of the project that can be completed within the year of the award.
Any individual public/charter K-12 school or nonprofit parent group associated with that public/charter K-12 school is eligible.
Parent groups that are applying (PTO, PTA, etc.) must have an independent EIN and official 501c(3) status from the IRS. If your group does not have 501c(3) status, please apply through your school.
Pre-schools are not eligible.
Please note the grant money cannot be used to pay for memorials, stipends, salaries, artists in residence, field trips, scholarships, or third-party funding. Only 10% of any award granted can be used toward outside resources such as labor, installation, consultation, and delivery.
Grant funds are not used for:
- Individual families (including scholarships)
- Religious denomination-sponsored programs or events
- Special events, such as conferences, dinners, sports competitions, festivals, and art exhibits
- Sponsorship of fundraising events (i.e. dinners, walks, golf tournaments, and auctions)
- Goodwill advertising or marketing
- Political, labor, veteran/fraternal organizations, civic clubs, or candidates
- Sports teams or athletic events
- Arts-based programs
- Animal rescue and support groups
- Travel-related events, including student trips, or tours
- Development or production of books, films, videos, or television programs
- Capital campaigns, endowments, or endowed chairs
- Activities of organizations serving primarily their own membership
- Private schools
- Continuing education for teachers and staff
- Institutional overhead and/or indirect cost (i.e. salaries, stipends, benefits, and most project labor costs)
- Memorial campaigns
- Multi-year requests
- Tickets to events
The spring 2019 deadline is 11:59 pm EST on February 8, 2019.
There are typically two Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant cycles in a school year.
Once 1500 applications are received, Lowe’s reserves the right to close the cycle. If that happens, the ‘Go to Application’ button will no longer appear on the website.
In order to submit an application, your school must be registered in the database. You should confirm this beforehand by going through the first step of the application process: Verifying Your Contact Information.
If your school is not currently registered in the database it can be added, but it can take up to 24 hours to process. You can register your school even if you are not ready to submit your application. If you wait until the deadline date to submit your application, and your school is not already registered you may not be able to submit the application.
All applicants will be notified of their status via email approximately 3 months after the application deadline. When submitting an application, the contact email address included should be one that will be available throughout the grant process.
FAQs: https://toolboxforeducation.com/faq
How to Apply: https://toolboxforeducation.com/hta
Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.
Apply Online: https://www.ptotoday.com/lowes
For assistance with finding a school in the database, email or call the funding source:
Email: schools@toolboxforeducation.com
Phone: 1-800-644-3561 Ext. 7
Lowe's Toolbox for Education
c/o PTO Today
100 Stonewall Boulevard, Suite 3
Wrentham, MA 02093
info@toolboxforeducation.com
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