Bright Ideas Facts and Figures

The Bright Ideas education grant program, sponsored by North Carolina’s electric cooperatives, strives to improve education in North Carolina classrooms by awarding grants to Tar Heel teachers in grades K-12 for innovative, classroom-based projects that would not otherwise be funded.

Since the program’s inception in 1994, Bright Ideas has awarded more than $6.5 million in grant money to North Carolina's teachers to sponsor more than 5,900 projects reaching more than 1 million students.