Oceanside Teachers Encouraged To Apply For Innovative Project Grants

OCEANSIDE, CA — Are you an Oceanside 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 October for the fall program.

The biannual 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 support to our teachers and schools is a critical part of our foundation's mission as we work to empower our communities," North Island Credit Union Foundation President Marvel Ford said in a statement. "We're excited to offer this grant program to help our hard-working teachers bring an innovative classroom program to life and encourage any educator who has a project idea to apply."

The deadline to apply is Sept. 23. Grant recipients will be announced in October.

Since the creation of the program in 2012, North Island Credit Union has awarded $195,000 in teacher grants to benefit students across Southern California. The spring grant program funded a variety of projects, including including creating a folk art program, launching a solar desalination project, starting a market for third-grade entrepreneurs, and understanding organisms and issues in the water shed, according to the foundation.