The fund awards modest grants to Bridgeport teachers for classroom projects and provides seed money for other innovative school projects.

The American Embassy provided a modest grant, as did Stanford.

The band, which receives a modest grant from the Town of Stratford, borrows sheet music and never passes the hat.

The Fund provides modest grants to grassroots organizations (i.e., those with annual budgets of less than $250,000).

But then modest grants create no constituencies.

In that year he sent a letter to the then Coalition government asking for a modest grant to establish a duty counsel service.

Through a series of modest grants to some faculty members, the foundation was able to donate needed equipment.

Host colleges match modest grants ($10,000) from the consortium.

The relatively modest grants favor projects that take place in less affluent neighborhoods, or that increase the ethnic diversity of the county's cultural life.

It is often said that only the children of fairly comfortably off families can travel as the others cannot live on this modest grant.