All grants are in pdf files.


 

Community Outreach Grant

Do you have a great idea/project to connect school & community but no $$ for funding?  Help members build connections w/people external to their school/classroom, grade level, department, building or district.

 

Small Rural Locals Leadership Assistance Grant

The purpose of the grant is to promote membership involvement by small rural local affiliates to support local members, and to building a stronger local.  There are fifteen (15) grants up to $1,000 each to cover expenses for various association activities.  The deadline for this grant is February 17, 2012.

 

WEA ESP Release Time Grant

This grant provides paid release time for substitutes for ESP (Educational Support Professionals) presidents or designees to support their membership.  WEA would reimburse up to 20 ESP locals the cost of up to eight (8) days per ESP local affiliate for the school year.  The ESP local affiliate agrees to use those days to attend activities such as Living Wage, local and/or council meetings as well as attending to their own members' needs and issues.  The deadline for this grant is February 17, 2012.

 

WEA Summer University Grant

Locals eligible to access this program are identified in our bylaws as small locals (those with less than 125 members), all ESP locals and those locals who demonstrate financial need.  The deadline for the Council grant is

June 21, 2011.

 

WEA Chinook's Representative Assembly Grant

To provide financial assistant to local associations which wish to send a delegate or an additional delegate to the Representative Assembly and are currently unable to do so.

 

Who is eligible? All ESP locals, small locals (all of those with less than 50 members) and other locals that can demonstrate financial need.


WEA-Retired Dollars for Scholars

WEA-Retired Dollars for Scholars is offering up to five $1,000 non-renewable scholarships for the purpose of aiding WEA members in enhancing skill in specific education area and/or attaining a teaching certificate.  If you have appplied before but have not received a scholarship, you may apply again.  This scholarship cannot be used to pay for classes already taken or for bills incurred because you are taking classes.  To obtain a scholarship form and more information, click hereThe deadline is April 16, 2012.  Receipients will be notified by May 14, 2012.

 

Warren G. Magnuson Educational Support Personnel Scholarship Grant

The grant is designed to assist WEA ESP employees in their pursuit of certification in the teaching profession.  Three (3) scholarship grants of $1,000 each are available.  One of the three (3) grants is designated to a minority ESP member.  The deadline is May 25.