NEA Foundation Learning and Leadership Grants
NEA Foundation (affiliated with the National Education Association)
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 — 31 days awayThe 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
- SSWR clusters
- 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. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
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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