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.

Bright Ideas has funded more than 6,500 projects and awarded more than $7.1 million in grant money to North Carolina’s teachers over the past 16 school years. Last year, North Carolina’s electric cooperatives collectively distributed more than $596,000 to fund 576 projects. The Bright Ideas program reached more than 103,000 students last year and has touched more than 1.2 million students over the life of the program.