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Dear Colleagues in Service,
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 The following grant and award opportunities may interest you. For more about YSA grants and awards, visit YSA.org/grants |
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Grants & Awards from Youth Service America
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Disney Friends for Change Grants (Deadline: January 29)Disney's Friends for Change is a program that encourages kids
everywhere to take steps together with their friends to help the
planet. The Friends for Change Grants will fund kids' projects that
help the environment and will look to engage children ages 5-18 as
leaders in their communities. Disney, working with YSA, will award 150
$500 grants throughout 2010.Disney's Friends for Change Grants are open to schools,
organizations and individuals planning service projects and will focus
on projects implemented by children and youth ages 5-18. The goal of
each grant is to inspire children to work with their families, friends,
schools and communities to address critical needs in their local,
national and global communities. To be eligible, projects will need to be done any time during 2010
and should include one service or celebratory component on Global Youth
Service Day, April 23-25, an annual campaign that mobilizes young
people around the world to make a positive impact in their communities. www.YSA.org/grantsGet Ur Good On Grants (Deadline: February 22)Get
Ur Good On Grants are available for
youth-led service initiatives on Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25,
2010. Available to children and youth around the world, YSA's Get Ur
Good On Grants will award 100 $500 grants to support projects
addressing critical community needs such as poverty, education, and
environmental sustainability. Grant applications are due February 22,
2010. To learn more about Get
Ur Good On Grants and to take the eligibility quiz, visit
www.YSA.org/grantsEveryday Young Heroes Awards (Deadline:
Ongoing)Each week in the National Service Briefing, YSA features an
Everyday Young Hero to highlight the achievements and commitment of a young
person to service. Everyday Young Hero Award winners will receive a certificate
and award letter and will be featured on YSA's website. Youth selected as
Everyday Young Heroes are also considered for YSA's other awards, including YSA
Service Stars and the Harris Wofford Award. To nominate a young person who has
demonstrated a passion for service, please visit www.YSA.org/awards/hero |
U.S. Grants & Awards
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Service-Learning Excellence in Teacher Education Award (Extended Deadline: January 29)
Teachers are at the heart of any successful effort to initiate, expand,
or sustain service-learning in K-12 schools and communities. Teachers
must be inspired and prepared to use service-learning as an
instructional strategy in their classrooms. As an increasing number of
undergraduate programs and graduate schools of education begin to
actively prepare educators to use service-learning as a pedagogy, we
are learning more about effective practice and policies needed to
support the implementation of service-learning in teacher education.
The National Service-Learning Partnership is pleased to join with the
State Farm Companies Foundation and the International Center for
Service-Learning in Teacher Education (ICSLTE) to honor teacher
education programs that make a significant commitment to improving the
quality of teaching and learning in preparing teachers and schools
leaders to use service-learning as an instructional strategy.
Nominations must be received by January 29, 2010. The 2010 honoree will
be publicly recognized at the State Farm® Awards Celebration at the
2010 National Service-Learning Conference in San Jose, CA, March 24-27,
2010. www.service-learningpartnership.org
The President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities is inviting nominations for its Coming Up Taller Awards, which
recognize and reward excellence in after-school and out-of-school arts and
humanities programs. Award recipients receive $10,000 each, an individualized
plaque and an invitation to attend the annual Coming Up Taller Leadership
Enhancement Conference. The President's Committee encourages programs initiated
by museums, libraries, performing arts organizations, universities, colleges,
arts centers, community service organizations, schools, businesses, and
eligible government entities to send in a nomination. Embarking on its
thirteenth year, the Coming Up Taller Awards honor after-school and
out-of-school programs that are tangible examples of the power of the arts and
the humanities to encourage young people's creativity and to provide them with
learning opportunities, chances to contribute to their community, and ways to
take responsibility for their own futures. www.pcah.gov/news/cut2010Nominations.htm
Through the Sprint Character Education Grant Program, the Sprint Foundation will award grants to school districts and individual schools to fund the purchase of resource materials, supplies, equipment and software that facilitates and encourages character education among K-12 students. With a national reach, the program is open to all US public schools (K-12) and US public school districts. The Sprint Character Education Grant program will accept applications for Character Education programs that promote youth leadership, youth volunteerism, school pride and a positive school culture. www.sprint.com/responsibility/education/characterLearn and Serve America Higher Education Grants (Deadline: March 9)
Subject
to the availability of appropriations for fiscal year 2010, the
Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation)
announces the anticipated availability of approximately $7.3 million to
award new Learn and Serve America Higher Education grants. Grants will
be awarded to an estimated seven to nine individual institutions
ranging from approximately $85,000 to $200,000 annually for a project
period of up to three years, and an estimated seven to eleven consortia
ranging from approximately $200,000 to $500,000 for a project period up
to three years. The purpose of the Learn and Serve America Higher
Education program is to support institutions of higher education that
use innovative service-learning programming to meet the needs of local
communities. www.learnandserve.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=76Learn and Serve America School-Based Grants to Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories (Deadline: March 9)The Corporation for National and Community Service announces the
availability of $650,070 for new Learn and Serve America School-Based
grants to Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories to involve school-age
youth in service-learning projects that simultaneously support student
development and meet community needs. The Corporation anticipates that grants will be awarded to an
estimated three to five Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories with awards
ranging from approximately $45,000 to $120,000 annually for a project
period of up to three years. www.learnandserve.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=77
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International Grants & Awards
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Disney Friends for Change Grants (Deadline: January 29)
Disney's Friends for Change is a program that encourages kids
everywhere to take steps together with their friends to help the
planet. The Friends for Change Grants will fund kids' projects that
help the environment and will look to engage children ages 5-18 as
leaders in their communities. Disney, working with YSA, will award 150
$500 grants throughout 2010.Disney's Friends for Change Grants are open to schools,
organizations and individuals planning service projects and will focus
on projects implemented by children and youth ages 5-18. The goal of
each grant is to inspire children to work with their families, friends,
schools and communities to address critical needs in their local,
national and global communities. To be eligible, projects will need to be done any time during 2010
and should include one service or celebratory component on Global Youth
Service Day, April 23-25, an annual campaign that mobilizes young
people around the world to make a positive impact in their communities.
http://www.ysa.org/grants/announcements/friendsforchangeStarbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grants (Deadline: Letters of Inquiry by January 30)
The primary purpose of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) is to
strengthen the voice of The Starbucks Foundation will solicit applications from organizations that provide young people a continuum of services in developing creative approaches to address pressing concerns in their communities. Please complete a letter of inquiry for your organization. The Starbucks Foundation will contact you if we'd like to request a full grant proposal. Successful grant applicants will exhibit all of the following qualities: Deliver services to youth, ages 6 - 24; Preference will be given to organizations that focus on young people in the age range of 12 and older, when they are able to take independent action; Provides opportunity to combine learning with action that support communities and further global citizenship; Deliver services, disseminate information, provide training and/or build broad networks; Provide opportunities for Starbucks partners and multiple stores to be engaged in community service. The Starbucks Foundation reviews the submissions on an annual basis; letters of inquiry submitted between October 1, 2009 and January 30, 2010 will be reviewed and considered for the spring 2010 grant round. Organizations selected to advance in the process will be notified to complete a full application by February 15, 2010. www.starbucks.com/aboutus/globalyoungsocialentrepreneurs.aspOpen Meadows - Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women (Deadline: February 15)The Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls, particularly those from vulnerable communities. Open Meadows Foundation funds projects that do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual identity and expression, age or ability. It offers grants up to $2000 to projects that: are designed and implemented by women and girls; reflect the diversity of the community served by the project in both its leadership and organization; promote building community power; promote gender, racial, social, economic and/or environmental justice; and have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding.In addition to the
general fund, Open Meadows has seven special funds, including The Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women which provides grants to young women 19 and under who propose to develop and lead projects that are focused on activism and social change. www.openmeadows.org
Get Ur Good On Grants (Deadline: February 22)Get
Ur Good On Grants are available for
youth-led service initiatives on Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25,
2010. Available to children and youth around the world, YSA's Get Ur
Good On Grants will award 100 $500 grants to support projects
addressing critical community needs such as poverty, education, and
environmental sustainability. Grant applications are due February 22,
2010. To learn more about Get
Ur Good On Grants and to take the eligibility quiz, visit
www.YSA.org/grants
Peace Child International Be the Change! Programme Grants (Deadline: March 31)
"Be The Change!" is a youth-led sustainable development Action Programme related to the Millennium Development Goals which aims to empower young people around the world to "be the change they want to see in the world." The Be The Change! grants supports young people under age 25 with projects that concentrate on the development of local communities. The kind of projects supported are projects that are genuinely youth-led, which benefit the community rather than an individual need, are projects up to £500 with a detailed budget, have two experienced and committed adults to mentor the project, have measures of achievement (indicators) by which projects may be evaluated, and can be either income-generating (funds to start up a small business and creating jobs) or it can be non-income generating (for health, education, environmental clean-up or community improvement) social programmes which are of genuine and lasting community value. www.peacechild.org/btc/startown
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Sincerely,
Youth Service America
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