The Kemper Foundation has announced a new bilingual educator grant program, Read Conmigo, underscoring the Foundation’s commitment to advance education through support of elementary school teachers of bilingual programs.
Donor Name: The Kemper Foundation
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/26/2022
Size of the Grant: $3,000
Details:
Funding Information
The Kemper Foundation will annually award up to 100 grants of $3,000 in two grant cycles to teachers of Spanish-English bilingual classrooms.
Grant funding can be used toward:
- Classroom resources: supplies, educational materials and field trips.
- Professional development: instruction, training, conferences and seminars.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant must be a licensed, Spanish-English teacher in a bilingual class setting.
- Applicant must be employed by an accredited K-5 public or charter school in one of the five following counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside or Ventura.
- Teachers who are immediate family members of employees of any of the Kemper family of companies* are not eligible for the grant.
- Non-profit organizations (i.e., 501(c)s, etc.) that are not schools are not eligible.
- At least 50% of an applicant’s teaching time must be dedicated to providing group instruction to students (one-on-one instructional time does not count toward this time requirement).
- An applicant must have at least two years’ experience as a K-5 bilingual Spanish-English teacher by the end of the school year during which the application is submitted. (Note: Student and substitute teaching do not count.)
- Administrators (e.g., principals) are not eligible to apply.
*Kemper and its businesses, including Kemper Auto, Infinity, A Kemper Company (CA only), Kemper Personal Insurance, Kemper Health, and Kemper Life.
For more information, visit The Kemper Foundation.