Program Guidelines

The foundation has identified the following priorities for its 2010 grantmaking:

A. State Coalitions for International Education

Since 2003, the Longview Foundation has supported state level activities designed to stimulate state policy and program initiatives by engaging high-level business leaders, policymakers, and the public in activities that assess the state’s relationship to other parts of the world, examine the implications for education policy, and implement appropriate reforms. Investments have resulted in significant momentum to build global knowledge and skills in PK-12 education. A recent survey of members of the States Network on International Education in the Schools highlighted significant progress in promoting global learning in a number of states as well as issues critical to moving the field forward.

To capitalize on the success of the Network’s leadership states and support states that are in earlier stages of developing international education strategies, the Longview Foundation is pleased to announce a seventh year of grants. Two kinds of grants will be available:

• Support for multi-state initiatives to address issues critical to promoting international education. These may include developing curriculum or resources to infuse global knowledge and skills into revised standards and assessments, integrating international content into teacher education, middle and high school reform and STEM initiatives, developing alternative certification for world language teachers and other issues.
• Funding to help individual states develop or continue initiatives to prepare students for the 21st century by integrating international knowledge and skills into PK-12 education. 

Grants in this category are made through a Request for Proposals to states active in the States Network on International Education in the Schools. For information about the Network, please contact the foundation at globaled@longviewfdn.org.

B. Internationalizing Teacher Preparation

The program to internationalize pre-service teacher education supports activities to ensure that PK-12 teachers in all subject areas begin their careers with:

• Knowledge of the international dimensions of their subject matter and a range of global issues;
• Pedagogical skills to teach their students to analyze primary sources from around the world, appreciate multiple points of view, and recognize stereotyping
• A commitment to assisting students to become responsible citizens of the world and their own communities. 

Grants are made to encourage teacher preparation programs to adopt a range of strategies on the home campus to develop the global expertise of future teachers. These include:

• Expanding programs for prospective world language teachers.
• Providing professional development for faculty and advisors
• Supporting revisions to the general and professional education requirements and courses for teachers
• Creating opportunities for fieldwork in internationally themed classrooms or multicultural communities in the United States
• Using technology to bridge international geographic and cultural barriers
• Modernizing and

The foundation is also interested in collaborative efforts through networks of teacher preparation programs and in activities that reach current or future administrators.

For additional information and examples, please see Teacher Preparation for the Global Age: The Imperative for Change.

Proposed projects are reviewed with particular attention to:

• How well they will help teachers learn to teach the global dimensions of their subject matter and develop intercultural skills
• Plans to assess the impact of strategies on future teachers’ ability to integrate global knowledge and skills into their teaching practice
• The level of leadership and financial support for continuation of activities beyond the grant period to assure sustainability
• How they fit into institutional plans to internationalize teacher education
• The number of teacher preparation candidates they will reach
• Participation of both the College of Education and the College Arts and Sciences
• Plans to work with the relevant state education agency and/or local school districts
• Dissemination plans to encourage replication at other institutions. Please see below for information about submitting a funding inquiry for this grant category.

C. Innovations in International Education

This program supports strategic, field-building activities that help address gaps in knowledge or capacity. Projects will also be reviewed for their potential to have a broad impact and remain sustainable beyond the grant period. The foundation is particularly interested in the following areas:

• Bringing international knowledge and skills to out-of-school time programming
• Using technology in innovative ways to reach students and teachers
• Including international children’s literature in literacy building initiatives
• Connecting the study of world languages with internationalization efforts in other curriculum areas
• Promoting system-wide reforms in international curriculum and assessment
• Bringing global education to large numbers of students and teachers, especially those in low-income communities
• Other activities strategically important for the field.

Please see below for information about submitting a funding inquiry for this grant category.

Budget Amounts and Restrictions

The foundation is interested in supporting activities that have other sources of funding and can demonstrate sustainability beyond the grant period.

Most grants will be between $15,000 and $30,000. Given the current economic climate, the Longview Foundation expects to make fewer grants at the top of this range in 2010.

The Longview Foundation does not fund:

• Projects that reach small numbers of students and teachers, including those based in individual PK-12 schools Overhead/indirect costs above 10%
• International travel or projects outside the United States
• Individuals
• Private foundations

Letter of Inquiry and Proposal Deadlines

Spring Grant Cycle 

1. Letters of inquiry in the Internationalizing Teacher Preparation and Innovations in International Education categories are due January 15, 2010 for the spring grant. Please use the form below.
2. The foundation will review inquiries and contact organizations to invite proposals by February 19, 2010 for the spring grant cycle.
3. The deadline for proposals invited for the spring grant cycle is March 19, 2010.
4. The foundation will announce funding decisions in early May, 2010 for the Spring Grant Cycle.

Please note: State proposals are invited through a Request for Proposals to the States Network on International Education in the Schools and are due March 1, 2010.

Fall Grant Cycle

1. Letters of inquiry in the Internationalizing Teacher Preparation and Innovations in International Education categories are due June 18, 2010 for the fall grant cycle. Please use the form below.
2. The foundation will review inquiries and contact organizations to invite proposals by July 16, 2010 for the fall grant cycle.
3. The deadline for proposals invited for the fall grant cycle is September 10, 2010
4. The foundation will announce funding decisions in late October, 2010 for the Fall Grant Cycle.

Click here to download the Funding inquiry form.

For more information, please contact globaled@longviewfdn.org T: 301-681-0899 F: 301-681-0925.