NEA Foundation News Releases - News Release

NEA Foundation Awards $211K in Grants to Educators

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:30:13 -0500

The NEA Foundation announced today that it is awarding 50 grants totaling $211,000 to support public school educators’ efforts to improve student achievement or strengthen their own skills. The grants, of $2,000 or $5,000, were awarded to educators in 33 states.

NEA Foundation Awards $3.75M to Close Achievement Gaps in Three Communities

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:57:06 -0500

Three partnerships bringing together the local education association, the school district, and community leaders, each have been selected by the NEA Foundation to participate in a five-year, $1.25 million effort to transform sets of the nation’s most challenged schools into local and national models for teaching and learning as part of the Foundation’s Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative. The partnerships selected to receive funding are: Columbus, Ohio; Springfield, Mass.; and Durham, N.C.

GE Foundation Awards $1M to Fund NEA Foundation’s Institute for Local Innovation in Teaching & Learning

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:58:48 -0500

The NEA Foundation announced today that it has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the GE Foundation to support the launch of the NEA Foundation’s Institute for Local Innovation in Teaching and Learning. The Institute, which is also funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will serve as a capacity-building engine for collaboration and reform between education unions and their school districts.

New England College Celebrates Founders Day; NEA Foundation President and Alum Serves as Keynote Speaker

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:58:15 -0500

The New England College community will celebrate Founders’ Day 2010 on Tuesday, January 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Field House. The keynote speaker is Harriet Sanford, a graduate of the NEC Class of 1974 and the President and CEO of the NEA Foundation. Ms. Sanford will receive the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

NEA Foundation’s Institute for Local Innovation in Teaching & Learning Plan Awarded $358K from Gates

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:53:59 -0500

The NEA Foundation announced today a $358,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to plan the creation of the Institute for Local Innovation in Teaching and Learning. The Institute will serve as a capacity-building engine for collaboration and reform between education unions and their school districts.

NEA Foundation Awards $1.12 M to Close Gaps

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:21:40 -0500

The NEA Foundation announced today that it is funding $1.12 million for projects in Milwaukee, Wis., Seattle, Wash., Connecticut, and rural Ohio. These projects are all part of the Foundation’s signature Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative, a set of ground breaking union-district partnerships collaborating to develop and implement comprehensive, sustainable approaches to close the achievement gaps and advance academic achievement

The NEA Foundation Awards $234K in Grants to Educators

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:35:44 -0400

The NEA Foundation announced today that it is awarding 51 grants totaling $234,000 to support public school educators’ efforts to improve student achievement or strengthen their own skills. The grants, of $2,000 or $5,000, were awarded to educators in 29 states:

NEA Foundation Announces Finalists for National Education Award

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:22:24 -0400

The NEA Foundation announces today the five national finalists for The NEA Foundation Awards for Teaching Excellence. These five educators will be recognized as the top professionals in their field and the national winner will be announced at the Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education awards gala on Feb. 12, 2010 in Washington, DC.

NEA Foundation and Nickelodeon Partner to Award The Big Green Help Grants to Public Schools across the Country

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:49:42 -0400

The NEA Foundation and Nickelodeon’s The Big Green Help campaign have partnered to award $200,000 in grants to public educators across the country. Forty The Big Green Help Grants in Public Education, ranging up to $5,000 each, will be awarded to support the development and implementation of programs teaching “green” concepts to public elementary and middle school students. The partnership is part of Nickelodeon’s The Big Green Help initiative, which connects kids to energy-saving and earth-friendly activities in their everyday lives, and the NEA Foundation’s grants program that helps prepare the next generation “green” workforce.

Eight Connecticut Schools Selected for Reform

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:30:00 -0400

Six organizations have agreed to collaborate on a school reform effort unlike any other in the country that will involve eight of Connecticut's most challenged schools. This unique collaboration will be funded, in part, by a $250,000 award from The NEA Foundation and a $480,000 appropriation from the Connecticut General Assembly.