Innovative Technology Grant
We want your application. Here’s how to succeed:
Submit your application between November 1, 2025 and January 31, 2026
Review the Application & the Rubric
The Application PDF and the Innovator Rubric is available all year – go ahead, download it, review it, and start the work early. Even better, bring your answers to a writing workshop.
Check out Past Winners
Be sure to review the past year’s projects. Hint hint: We LOVE giving grants for big new ideas. We support real innovation which requires fresh, creative thinking. What challenge, possibility, or opportunity will change your practice and inspire your students? That’s what we want to hear!
Attend a Free Grant Writing Workshop
Check out the current workshops available. We provide opportunities for you to work with our staff and perfect your grant application. Come with your ideas, better yet – come with your application!
Grant Guidelines
ITEF funds projects that are innovative, and which elevate learning and exploration. Although we see “innovation” as a mindset, we understand that the definition of innovation is relative and dynamic. We look for projects that engage students, push teachers, and generate excitement and enthusiasm for learning.
- Grants are generally one year in length
- Applicants should proceed with knowledge and support from their superintendent/head of school and their Information Technology department.
- Grant recipients are asked to demonstrate compliance through quarterly reports, mid-project visits, and final reports.
- Applicants must have held their charter for three or more years.
- Project proposals may support single grade classrooms, multiple grade levels, entire schools, or collaborations with a 501c(3) non-profit partner serving students and/or classroom educators from an accredited school or a charter school.
Grant applications are reviewed and selected by the ITEF Board of Directors and staff.
Is my ZIP code eligible?
Missouri Zip Code Eligibility
63010
63011
63012
63015
63016
63017
63019
63020
63021
63025
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63028
63031
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63110
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63301
63303
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63332
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63385
63627
63630
Illinois Zip Code Eligibility
62010
62024
62025
62034
62035
62040
62048
62060
62062
62067
62084
62087
62090
62095
62201
62202
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