A New Year and New Grant Deadlines
One of our New Year’s resolutions was to find ways to fund more educators’ projects. Our new, $2,000 student achievement grants will help more teachers reach students with engaging classroom projects that will inspire learning.
Also, in partnership with EarthEcho, we are offering new grants to support service-learning programs that improve the health of our water
planet. The NEA Foundation-EarthEcho Water Planet Challenge grants are also for $2,000. Apply today
just in time for
Grantee Discussion: Your Greatest Grant Successes
Each NEA Foundation grantee has used grant funds to conduct high-quality classroom learning and/or professional development projects. We would like to hear from educators about their experiences.
How would you describe the most successful aspects
Support Educators' Classroom Projects on DonorsChoose.org
Do you believe in the power of ideas? We do!
The NEA Foundation understands that the best way to help students learn is to help teachers teach. From bringing the alphabet to life with puppets, to showing students how germs spread, teachers have great
Grantee Discussion: Outdoor Classrooms
Many NEA Foundation grantees have used funds to create outdoor classrooms at their school. We would like to hear from educators about their experiences.
What was your greatest challenge? What have been your greatest rewards?
Please share you
Edcuators Get a ‘Big Help’ From Nickelodeon
We have just awarded 41 grants to educators in 24 states in partnership with Nickelodeon’s “The Big Help.” Each school year, the Foundation awards more than 150 grants to educators in every state. It is always eye-opening and
Grantee Discussion: Incorporating Mobile Technology in the Classroom
Many NEA Foundation grantees have used funds to incorporate iPod, iPad or other mobile technology in the classroom. We would like to hear from educators about their experiences.
Has this technology resonated with students? In incorporating
Grant Application Tip: Have a Good Reason For a Grant
By Jesse Graytock
Grants Manager, The NEA Foundation
As Grants Manager, I like to offer tips to educators that are not just applicable when applying for a grant from the NEA Foundation, but can but useful when applying for any type of grant.
Grantee Story: All the Healthy News That’s Fit to Print
With the help of a grant from the NEA Foundation, Lorette Vacchiano and elementary students from the Norristown Area School District in Pennsylvania are sharing the good news about healthy living.
They created the "Healthy Comet" student newspaper
Guest Post: How I Used Imagination and Animation to Teach Students about Recycling
By Jennifer Dashef
Elementary Art Teacher, Granville Central School District, NY
(Jennifer was awarded a Student Achievement Grant funded in partnership with Nickelodeon's The Big Help.)
It is my goal to make my art lessons as meaningful as possible
Nickelodeon Helps Fund 56 Educators Projects For 'Big Help’
For the second consecutive year, Nickelodeon is helping fund the NEA Foundation grants program through the network’s The Big Help project, a long-term effort to connect kids to issues and information important in their lives. The
