So what criteria are necessary to apply for these grants? I have a feeling there are a lot of smart people working on startups in the ed tech space. If you could get in contact with them, you might have more competent grant applicants, and those startups would find more revenue to pursue their (potentially workable) ideas for improving education.
Here are some ed tech incubators I found on Google. If you get in contact with the people behind the incubators, they’ll probably tell all of their startups about the ease of getting funding this way. Their startups will have to work on one of the problems that there exists a grant for, but there should be a decent number that find this workable.
You might have seen some of those sketchy advertisements, similar to the “Google will Pay YOU!!! To Work From Home!” ads, which say stuff like “Get Grant Money Here!”. At least, I associate those two kinds of ads as being similar.
In any case, the process of finding grants to apply for is very simple. The Department of Education grants are all on http://www.grants.gov/. Pretty much every university’s Research and Evaluation Department gives out grants to the local community; check out your local Uni’s website. Sometimes large corporations give out grants, sometimes individual people. In general, get in touch with the education department of your county government to find out which grants are being offered nearby and how to apply for them.
Now that I think of it, this is the main request I should have of lesswrongers. I bet anyone on this website could write a damn good proposal for any grant they come across, and I bet their project would be better than the shit I evaluate.
So what criteria are necessary to apply for these grants? I have a feeling there are a lot of smart people working on startups in the ed tech space. If you could get in contact with them, you might have more competent grant applicants, and those startups would find more revenue to pursue their (potentially workable) ideas for improving education.
Here are some ed tech incubators I found on Google. If you get in contact with the people behind the incubators, they’ll probably tell all of their startups about the ease of getting funding this way. Their startups will have to work on one of the problems that there exists a grant for, but there should be a decent number that find this workable.
http://www.quora.com/Startup-Incubators-and-Seed-Programs/What-incubator-and-accelerator-programs-focus-only-on-education-technology-startups
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/startup-veterans-launch-imagine-k12-a-y-combinator-for-education-startups/
You might have seen some of those sketchy advertisements, similar to the “Google will Pay YOU!!! To Work From Home!” ads, which say stuff like “Get Grant Money Here!”. At least, I associate those two kinds of ads as being similar.
In any case, the process of finding grants to apply for is very simple. The Department of Education grants are all on http://www.grants.gov/. Pretty much every university’s Research and Evaluation Department gives out grants to the local community; check out your local Uni’s website. Sometimes large corporations give out grants, sometimes individual people. In general, get in touch with the education department of your county government to find out which grants are being offered nearby and how to apply for them.
Now that I think of it, this is the main request I should have of lesswrongers. I bet anyone on this website could write a damn good proposal for any grant they come across, and I bet their project would be better than the shit I evaluate.
Good info. Are you going to talk to the ed tech incubators and give them an inside contact or shall I email them a link to this thread?