Innovative Education Grants

The Innovative Education Grants program was the first program sponsored by the Fremont Education Foundation, founded in 1991. These grants fund innovative, quality classroom programs in grades K-12 and are aimed at increasing student academic achievement, creativity, leadership, critical thinking, physical fitness and health, skills in diversity and conflict resolution, and experiences in the visual and performing arts.  Individual grants are awarded for amounts up to $3,000.

Grant applications for the 2008-2009 school year are now available! 

Over the past 16 years, 135 teacher grants have been awarded to directly benefit over 16,845 students.  Meet the 2006-2007 Grant Recipients.

Science Grants

The Fremont Education Foundation is pleased to announce that it has funded $24,255 worth of science lab equipment to 32 FUSD schools. This is in addition to the traditional Innovative Education Grants that were funded for the 2006-2007 academic year. Thanks to all the FEF donors whose generosity made these grants possible, and thanks to all the teachers who applied because they so clearly want to enhance the educational experience for their students.  

Science teachers from 32 schools applied for the funds, for a total requested amount of $60K.  The list of requested equipment and supplies included fossils, scales, models, plants, balances, slides, cylinders, specimens, projectors, microscopes, and laptops. Unfortunately, we were unable to fully fund all these worthy requests. Since many of the schools were requesting multiples pieces of equipment and supplies, and the majority of the requests were for basic lab equipment, we decided to distribute the money across all the requesting schools as equitably as possible.  To this end, we allocated funds to all applicant schools, with most schools receiving $750. In some cases, slightly more or less would fully fund one or more pieces of requested equipment, so the amount funded is slightly above or below $750.  These schools received science equipment funding.     

Please be assured that we are still seeking matching funds from other sources.