NEA Foundation News Releases
NEA Foundation and Staples Foundation for Learning Partner to Award $50,000 in “Green” Grants for Educators
Staples Foundation for Learning (SFFL), a private foundation created by Staples, Inc., today announced it is awarding a $50,000 grant to the NEA Foundation. Funding from SFFL will support Green Grants, a program that provides support for educators to develop and implement ideas, techniques and approaches that integrate environmental education into the classroom to increase student engagement and improve academic achievement.
NEA Foundation Promotes Grant Program; Presents Nobel Prize nominee at 2009 NEA Expo
(July, 3 2009)
Thousands of educators visited the NEA Foundation’s booth at the NEA’s 2009 Expo in San Diego to learn more about the Foundation’s grants, for a chance to win an iPod Touch, and to pick up a coveted NEA Foundation “Need a Grant?” bag.
NEA Foundation Funds Five Urban School Districts
(May 5, 2009)
The NEA Foundation announced today that it will build upon the success of its collaborative Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative by awarding five urban public education partnerships $50,000 planning grants. These partnerships will develop proposals to demonstrate how they will work together to improve achievement rates for low income and minority students, while raising performance for all students.
NEA Foundation Supports New K-12 Service-Learning Curriculum
(March 16, 2009)
Through Greg Mortenson's best-selling Three Cups of Tea and the author's Pennies for Peace organization, thousands of educators are inspiring young people nationwide to raise money to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The NEA Foundation announced today that educators hoping to join this movement can download a free K-12 service-learning toolkit designed to help them create effective penny-raising campaigns as part of their schools' curriculum.
NEA Foundation Video Provides Detailed Guide to Online Grant Application
(March 13, 2009)
The NEA Foundation has posted a video that provides a guided tour and detailed instruction of its new online grants application process for its popular $2,000 and $5,000 Learning & Leadership Grants and its Student Achievement Grants. Applications are accepted, reviewed, and granted three times a year. Deadlines are June 1, October 15, and February 1.
New Grants Support Teaching Improvisation in Middle and High School Music Education
(March 11, 2009)
The NEA Foundation, in partnership with MENC: The National Association for Music Education, today announced 10 new "Teaching Improvisation Grants," earmarked to support public educators' work to teach improvisation to middle and high school music students. Part of the NEA Foundation's popular Student Achievement and Learning & Leadership grants program, the $2,000 and $5,000 grants will be awarded over the 2009-2010 school year.
NEA Foundation Honors Sesame Workshop, Verizon at February 6 Gala in Washington, DC
(February 7, 2009)
The NEA Foundation presented its inaugural Award for Philanthropy in Public Education to Verizon Communications and its 2009 Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education to Sesame Workshop at its annual Salute to Excellence in Education awards gala held on February 6 at the National Museum Building in Washington, DC. Known as the Academy Awards for public education, the Foundation's gala attracted more than 900 leaders from public education, business, philanthropy and the government.
Illinois' Effingham High School Teacher Joseph Fatheree 2009 Member Benefits Awardee for Teaching Excellence
(February 9, 2009)
lllinois' Effingham High School teacher Joseph Fatheree won top honors at the NEA Foundation's annual Salute to Excellence in Education Friday night, taking home the coveted $25,000 Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence and sharing the stage with Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Sesame Street's Bob McGrath in front of 900 leaders from public education, business, philanthropy and the government. The gala, which is held in Washington, DC, is a national celebration of the men and women who work in America's public schools.
NEA Foundation Applauds Educational Philanthropy
(January 19, 2009)
The NEA Foundation announced today that it will present its inaugural Philanthropy in Public Education Award to Verizon Communications in recognition of the company's support of public education and literacy.
NEA Foundation Announces Grants for Technology Teaching
(December 15, 2008)
The NEA Foundation's Board Chair, Lauri Fitz-Pegado, Partner of The Livingston Group, announced the receipt of a bequest to the Foundation from the estate of Corene Griffin, of Malibu, CA. The gift will total over $181,000 and will support technology in education.
NEA Foundation Awards $1.34M to Close the Achievement Gaps
(November 12, 2008)
The NEA Foundation today announced that it will award $1,341,000 to three of its Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative pilot sites, continuing its work to advance systemic efforts to increase academic achievement, especially for low income and minority students. The initiative sets five-year goals for each of the pilot sites and is building a body of knowledge about teaching and learning that will be shared with the reform and philanthropic sectors in the years ahead.
NEA Foundation Launches Online Grants Application
(October 20, 2008)
In a move it says will make applying for grants easier, more convenient, and less prone to user error, the NEA Foundation today announced that it is launching a web-based application process for its popular $2,000 and $5,000 grants to support public school educators' ideas to improve teaching and learning.
NEA Foundation Names Five Finalists for National Award
(October 16, 2008)
Five public school educators will receive $10,000 from the Horace Mann Companies and national recognition at a Washington, DC awards gala as the 2009 national finalists for the NEA Foundation's Award for Teaching Excellence, according to the NEA Foundation, a public charity created in 1969 to advance student achievement in America's public schools.
Eight Connecticut Schools Selected for Reform
(September 08, 2008)
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.