Encinitas Teachers Encouraged To Apply For $500 Grants For Class Projects

ENCINITAS, CA — Are you an Encinitas teacher with an innovative class project idea? North Island Credit Union Foundation could help fund your project.

North Island Credit Union Foundation is offering grants through its teacher grant program. The foundation will award 10 $500 grants to area teachers in April for the spring program.

The grant program is available to full-time teachers in San Diego and Riverside counties, or credit union members teaching in California, looking to fund special learning opportunities for their students. Projects should have clearly defined learning objectives tied to students' academic needs, display creativity, and benefit a significant number of students, according to the foundation, a nonprofit corporation that serves as the philanthropic arm of North Island Credit Union.

"Providing resources to help teachers and schools thrive and support students is an important aspect of the foundation's work," North Island Credit Union Foundation President Marvel Ford said in a statement. "Our long-time teacher grant program provides those extra funds that enable our dedicated educators to bring creative new projects to their students. We encourage all our teachers to submit their ideas so we can support their great work."

The application deadline is March 28.

Since the creation of the program in 2012, North Island Credit Union has awarded $205,000 in teacher grants to benefit students across Southern California. The fall grant program funded a variety of projects, including conducting a geometry-based city planning project, creating a lending library, expanding a school garden, and starting a school community mosaic project, according to the foundation.