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Innovation
Innovation is the whole point.
Everything the Escondido Education Foundation funds comes back to one idea: back the educators who are willing to try something new, and give their students the experience that follows. We help make the ordinary extraordinary.
Our approach
On the cutting edge of what a classroom can be.
The core of every Escondido Education Foundation program is embracing innovation and empowering learning. We are proud to work at the leading edge, helping build an advanced and innovative learning environment inside Escondido Union School District classrooms.
Our commitment to transformative education has produced a set of initiatives that act as catalysts for change. Each one exists because an educator asked for something a standard budget could not reach, and the community answered.
Together with educators, students, parents, and the wider community, we work to help every child uncover their own unlimited potential. We provide the opportunities and resources to develop their skills and interests, because confidence is built through experience and mastery, and our programs are built to deliver both through real, hands on work.
The programs
Three programs, one purpose.
Each of these programs enhance our ability to embrace innovation and empower learning in EUSD.
Innovation Grants
Direct funding for educator designed projects, from hands on science and coding to visual art and literacy in more than one language. This is where most of what the community gives ends up.
See how grants workCaring Hearts Awards
Annual recognition for the educators and community members who go above and beyond to make it work, so strong practice gets seen, celebrated, and shared district wide.
About Caring HeartsMany Hands Campaign
An opportunity for EUSD employees to donate to the foundation directly from their paychecks each month, so a few dollars a pay period becomes steady funding for Escondido classrooms.
See how to giveWhy it works
Collaboration is the backbone.
Working together is what turns an innovative idea into an action that reaches a student. In doing that, we are not only improving learning here, we are setting a mark for what progressive education can look like anywhere.
With a lasting commitment to innovation and a steady focus on empowering learning, we are shaping the education of tomorrow, today, in Escondido classrooms.
Documents and forms
Everything an applicant needs.
Grant deadlines and award amounts change by cycle. Ask us if you are unsure which cycle you are in.
25 schools, one community
Fund a classroom in EUSD.
Every donation is tax deductible and stays inside the Escondido Union School District.