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AEA Advocate x Winter 2014/15 37 RESOURCES 2015 CanvaS granTS For the second year in a row, Instructure is granting your most inspired wishes for K-12 and higher education with Canvas Grants totaling $100k. And this year, they're investing 100 percent of that $100k for your 15 most innovative ideas to help find, understand, and address the causes of lossy learning. As part of Canvas' lossless learning initiative, they're challenging you to find new ways to maximize student learning potential. You find an innovative solution to help teachers and students move toward lossless learning. The promotion is open only to participants who sign up at the online page and who are 18 years of age or older as of the date of entry. Employees of Instructure, their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, suppliers and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible to participate in the promotion. The Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. Apply online at www.canvaslms. com/canvasgrants by January 23, 2015. Travel granTS for eduCaTorS Travel Grants for Educators provide support to educators from any country in attending the International Reading Association's (IRA) annual conference. Applicants must be active IRA members and must also be members of an IRA International Affiliate. Completed applications must be received by June 30 for meetings between July 1 and June 30 of the following year. For additional information, contact the Global Operations Unit via email at inteldev@ reading.org. Apply online at fs6.formsite.com/ intntlreading/form717582404/index.html. The STePPIng STone granT The Lily Sarah Grace Foundation is offering the Stepping Stone Grant of up to $450 for first time applicants to the foundation who are educators of grades K-5 in Title 1 Schools. Applicants should utilize Arts Infused Inquiry Based Learning to teach focusing on these key competencies: creativity, critical thinking and collaboration. Apply online at lilysarahgrace. org/grants. gIve your PublIC hIgh SChool a SPorTIng ChanCe: aPPly for a 2015 CalIfornIa CaSualTy ThoMaS r. brown aThleTICS granT If your public high school's athletics program is in need of funding, apply for a 2015 California Casualty Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grant. Guidelines and application forms can be found at www. calcasathleticsgrant.com. California Casualty will award numerous grants this year, in amounts of $1,000-to- $3,000, to public high schools across the nation that demonstrate the most need. Applications for the 2014/2015 academic year must be received by January 15, 2015 for consideration. In the past three years more than $300,000 has been awarded to augment sports programs at hundreds of public high schools across the nation. Last year, 79 high schools in 31 states – 2 from Arizona – received funding that was used to supplement equipment and facilities, such as new portable goals, cones and uniforms for the Mesa High School soccer team and to provide balls, uniforms and lighting for family fun nights at Roadrunner High School in Phoenix – which serves students with special needs. Celebrating 100 years, California Casualty has been Arizona Education Association's trusted source for home and auto insurance products since 1982. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with Service Centers in Arizona, Colorado and Kansas, California Casualty has been led by four generations of the Brown family. To learn more, or to request an auto insurance quote, please visit www.calcas.com/AEA or call 1.800.800.9410. Applicants must be a current member (or referred by a member) of the Arizona Education Association (AEA) as well as be an active employee of the public high school for which funding is sought. Awardees will be announced by May. Official rules and applications can be found at www.calcasathleticsgrant.com.