Horace Mann

Since 2001, Horace Mann has sponsored The Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence. These awards annually recognize five top educators from across the country and provide them with cash prizes and national recognition. Recipients are selected from among 10 semifinalists who have been nominated by their state or direct NEA affiliate and interviewed by a panel of education experts and leaders in the field.

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Website: http://www.horacemann.com/

NEA Member Benefits 

NEA Member Benefits has partnered with the NEA Foundation to help honor and recognize excellence in education, by presenting The NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence.  The recipient, one of five educators recognized at the Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education Gala, receives $25,000 thanks to the generosity of NEA Member Benefits.  In addition to providing support for the award, NEA Member Benefits also works on behalf of the Foundation to generate other sources of support of our work.

Website: http://www.neamb.com/

AT&T Foundation

The AT&T Foundation's support for the NEA Foundation's Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative builds on this work by funding efforts to increase STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teaching and learning. This three-year, $300,000 partnership will address the lack of relevant and rigorous instruction in grades 8-12, which is vital to college and workforce preparedness. The NEA Foundation's Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative is a large-scale pilot effort to close the achievement gaps between under-achieving low income and minority students and their higher achieving more affluent peers, while raising achievement for all students.

Website: http://www.att.com/gen/corporate-citizenship?pid=7736

Nickelodeon

This partnership is dedicated to promoting and disseminating the NEA Foundation-Nickelodeon Big Green Help Grants through our Student Achievement grants program. These grants support classroom projects that integrate green-related topics and experiences with various standards-based content areas to increase student engagement and improve academic achievement. The Foundation has matched Nickelodeon's contribution of $100,000 to support up to 40 additional Student Achievement grants beginning Fall 2009 and continuing through Summer 2010.

Website: http://www.nick.com/minisites/biggreen/index.jhtml?adfree=true&_requestid=60014#

Bank of America

Since 2004, Bank of America has supported the Foundation's work by donating a portion of purchases made by NEA members using the NEA Member Benefits Bank of America VISA during November and December of each year. This contribution of unrestricted funds supports the Foundation's programs and general operations.

Website: http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/

Staples Foundation for Learning

Staples Foundation for Learning (SFFL), a private foundation created by Staples, Inc. awarded a $50,000 grant to the NEA Foundation to support its grants to educators. Funding from SFFL funds 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.

Website: www.staplesfoundation.org

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