Grants to Educators
At the NEA Foundation, we support new ideas and practices to strengthen teaching and learning. Our goal is to fund and share successful strategies to educate and prepare students for bright and rewarding futures.
We have learned that the best teaching methods come from our greatest assets: educators. That is why we have awarded more than $8 million to fund 2,500 grants to public school educators to enhance teaching and learning.
To build our knowledge base and to uncover new, great practices in public education we invite all eligible educational professionals to apply for these grants. We hope this site provides useful information to encourage educators to realize their own potential and to ensure excellent teaching and learning in public schools.
Apply Online for Our Grants
All Learning & Leadership and Student Achievement Grant applicants must complete proposals through the Foundation's online grant system. This application process gives applicants the ability to create a personal account that allows users to save versions of their application as it is being completed.
NEA Member Funding Opportunity
The NEA Foundation understands that the best way to help students learn is to help teachers teach. Teachers have many great ideas to help their students learn more, but often lack the resources they need to bring these ideas to life. The NEA Foundation has partnered with DonorsChoose.org, where educators can post their requests for classroom materials.
Please visit our New Opportunities page to learn more.
NEA Foundation Grantees
Great ideas run the gamut as do the educators and the students they teach. We believe our grantees have one thing in common: ideas that deserve support and recognition. Through our grants, we are rewarding innovation that creates better teachers, more dynamic classrooms, and engaged students.
Search our listing of grantees by state, school, grade level, or subject.
All the Healthy News that's Fit to Print
Norristown Area School District, Pennsylvania
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 Times student newspaper to reach students in seven schools with lessons about health, and are addressing social issues like bullying. The program has allowed these students to improve their writing, reading, interview skills and they have had a chance to learn from professional reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Read more about this project and other featured grantee projects
Grantee Resources and Other Grant Opportunities
In our Resources Section you will find helpful documents that will assist you in writing your grant application, including FAQs and grant writing tips.
In addition, you can find a few select resources for educators searching for additional grant opportunities. The NEA Foundation takes pride in the number of high-quality Learning & Leadership and Student Achievement grant proposals it receives. Since we unfortunately cannot fund all of these worthy proposals, we encourage applicants to consider multiple sources of funding when completing a grant application.