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NEA Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants

NEA Foundation (affiliated with the National Education Association)

NontraditionalTraining & capacityExpired · for reference only

Grants from the union-affiliated NEA Foundation for individual professional development or group collegial learning, with action research named explicitly as a supported group activity. Useful to school social workers and other specialized instructional support personnel who want to fund a study group, an inquiry project, or conference travel tied to practice improvement.

Indicative award
up to $5k (total award)Page states grants of up to $5,000, funding activities for 12 months from the award date. No published floor, so amountMin is left null.
Timing
Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jun, Jul, Aug, SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-15 — passed. Kept for reference; check the funder's page for the next cycle.The page gives an annual application window of June 15 through September 15, with registration in the Fluxx portal required by September 10. Informational sessions were listed for July 8 and August 19.
Who can apply
Practitioner
Eligibility
The applicant must be a current National Education Association member working in a US public school or public higher education institution. Union membership is the hard gate: a university researcher cannot be the applicant unless they hold NEA membership. Eligible member categories include teachers, education support professionals, and specialized instructional support personnel, a category the page lists as including school counselors, social workers, and speech pathologists. Current NEA Foundation grantees may not apply. A non-member researcher's route is to partner with an NEA-member practi
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Topics
educator professional development · action research · collegial study groups · school practice
Apply at
https://www.neafoundation.org/educator-grants-and-fellowships/learning-leadership-grants/
This entry
Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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