Calling All Educators: Applications for SELCO Credit Union’s 2023 Spark! Creative Learning Grant Now Open

Now in its 30th year, the annual SPARK! program awards grants up to $1,000 to K-12 educators across Oregon; More than $54,000 awarded to 60 teachers in 2022

The window for Oregon K-12 educators to apply for 2023 SPARK! Creative Learning Grants from SELCO Community Credit Union is now open. The grants award as much as $1,000 each to fund projects across the 27 Oregon counties SELCO serves. SELCO uses the grants to prove critical funding for in-classroom and extracurricular projects that are innovative, educational, and impactful.

In 2022, SELCO awarded more than $54,000 to 60 teachers at 55 Oregon schools.

Now in its 30th year, the SPARK! Creative Learning Grants program supports educators with creative classroom ideas in need of funding. Grants are awarded to applicants with the most innovative, impactful, and meaningful projects. SELCO’s SPARK! committee reviews applications based on project originality, proposal clarity, number of students affected, skill development, and diversity and impact of projects.

The application window runs from Aug. 15 to Sept. 30, 2023.

For the 2022-23 school year, SPARK! grants helped fund projects of all types, including a community garden, writing & publishing a 2nd grade book, building a single passenger electric vehicle, creating a sensory space for students, a multicultural & multilingual media center, and much more.

For more information about SELCO’s SPARK! Creative Learning Grants, or to view past recipients or a video highlighting a recent project, or to apply, visit www.selco.org/spark. For questions, email spark@selco.org or call 541-686-5382.

About SELCO Community Credit Union

Founded 87 years ago by a group of fiscally minded teachers, Springfield-based SELCO Community Credit Union today serves more than 148,000 members as one of the largest and longstanding Oregon-based credit unions. A not-for-profit, federally insured, member-driven financial cooperative with more than $2.6 billion in assets, SELCO provides its member-owners with exceptional rates and low fees on a full range of financial products and services, including banking, mortgages, personal and business loans, investments, and insurance. Membership is available to anyone who lives or works in one of the 27 Oregon or eight Washington counties SELCO serves. For more information or to become a member today, stop by one of SELCO’s 15 branches, visit selco.org, or call 800-445-4483.