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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

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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June 2009

Stanhope Elmore Issues Project
Susanne Harrison of Stanhope Elmore High School in Millbrook, AL received a $788 Teaching Tolerance grant to establish a journalism program and newsletter that will include ongoing research and dialogue about tolerance related issues globally and in their own community. High school students will mentor middle school students as they collaborate to reduce bullying, racism, and discrimination by creating a safer and more accepting school climate.

Where Have We Been? Where Are We Headed?
Karen Busiere of Elsberry Middle School in Elsberry, Mo., received an $1857 Teaching Tolerance grant to support a literacy project examining gender equity. The project will encourage students to study issues and challenge policies and social practices that lead to early parenthood, domestic violence, and extended poverty.

Appreciating Religious Diversity in Our Hometown
Rosemary Hamel of The Thomas Jefferson School in Flushing, NY. received a $1297 Teaching Tolerance grant for a religious diversity project. The goal is to reduce prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination about diverse religions and customs. Fifth grade students will join faculty, family members and religious leaders to explore the similarities and differences in world religions represented in their own community.

Passport to Understanding
Kathy Conroy of Providence Spring Elementary School in Charlotte, NC, received a $2494 Teaching Tolerance grant to improve intergroup relations and understanding by expanding cultural knowledge and sensitivity among parents, staff and students. The school-wide project will be shared with other schools in the district.

Holocaust Teaching Trunks
Laurie Warshal Cohen of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center in Seattle, Washington, received a $2500 Teaching Tolerance grant to support a project that focuses on universal lessons of tolerance and respect for humanity. Through studying the Holocaust, students will understand what constitutes a human rights abuse and explore connections between prejudice during the Holocaust and present day ongoing prejudices.

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