Learning and Leadership Grants

Through Learning & Leadership grants, the NEA Foundation supports the professional development of NEA members by providing grants to:

• Individuals to participate in high-quality professional development like summer institutes, conferences, seminars, travel abroad programs, or action research.
  
• Groups to fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson plan development, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff.

Grant applications focused on the following topics are most likely to be funded:

• Enhanced critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Master of essential academic content
• Communication and collaboration skills
• Project-based learning and learning experiences connected to real-world issues and challenges

Grant funds can be used for travel, room, meals, registration fees, materials, etc. for individual grants. For group grants, funds can be used for educator stipends, substitute fees, materials, travel, meals, etc.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)