2024 TEACH Grants will be announced soon.
Click HERE to view the 2023 TEACH Grant awards.
Marion Community Foundation’s successful TEACH Grants Program, started in 2020, is an acronym for “Teaching, Educating And Classroom Help” grants and makes awards to encourage local teachers, or small teams of classroom teachers, to develop programs, projects, events, or lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade that are interesting, innovative, stimulating, and impactful for students. Grants are intended to fund classroom programs not supported by regular school budgets. Any public or private school teacher who instructs children kindergarten through high school in Marion and Morrow counties (Ohio) is eligible to apply.
“Classroom teachers have great ideas and creative solutions to meet their students’ needs,” said Dean Jacob, President and CEO of Marion Community Foundation and a former teacher himself. “The TEACH Grant program can help teachers launch innovative and motivational ideas that may go unfunded because of a school’s tight budget.”
“The Board of Pillar Credit Union was instrumental in starting the TEACH Grants Program by providing the financial support,” said Jacob. “As the concept has caught on, other donors created additional funds, like the Marion Education Foundation Fund, to support specific schools. This is our way to affirm the value of our local educators and their creative ideas.”
Additional information is available by contacting Cheryl Wickersham at Marion Community Foundation by calling 740-387-9704 or cherylwickersham@marioncommunityfoundation.org.
The TEACH Grants program supports local education and is made possible by the following endowment funds at Marion Community Foundation:
Pillar Credit Union Teachers’ Fund
Pillar Credit Union Morrow County Teachers’ Fund
River Valley Teachers Fund
Ray & Charlotte Baldauf Fund
Dean & Sue Jacob Family Fund
Marion Education Foundation Fund
David K. Miller Teachers’ Fund
Phil & Sonia Haas Teachers’ Fund
Joan Zucker Milner Memorial Teachers’ Fund
Stephen J. & Mary “Sally” Byrnes Memorial Fund
Steven Family Education Fund
and numerous individual donors.
Additional support is always encouraged, and donations may be made to any of the funds by clicking on the links above.