21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Program

California's 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Program provides funding to create incentives for establishing before-and after-school enrichment programs that partner schools and communities to provide academic and literacy support and safe, constructive alternatives for youth. Each program must consist of three elements: academic assistance, educational enrichment, and family literacy services. Programs must operate during every regular school day and may operate during summer, intersession, or vacation days.

Entities eligible to apply for funding include: local educational agencies (LEAs), cities, counties, community-based agencies, other public or private entities (which may include faith-based organizations), or a consortium of two or more such agencies, organizations, or entities. Applicants are required to plan their programs through a collaborative process that includes parents, youth, and representatives of participating schools or local educational agencies, governmental agencies (e.g., cities, counties, parks and recreation departments), community organizations, and the private sector.

See http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/profile.asp?id=1462 for more information.

Teach Something Grant

Teach Something Grants are $500 grants that Tutor.com and DoSomething.org are giving to YOU for a project that helps change education in your community. This can be a program that you've already started or an idea that you've been cooking up. All projects should be around the theme of improving education in your community in a measurable way.

Teach Something Eligibility Rules:

• The applicant must be 25 OR UNDER.
• The applicant must be a U.S. or Canadian citizen (You will be asked to prove citizenship and age if you win).
• You can only win one grant from Do Something in a twelve month period (excluding the Do Something Award).

See http://www.dosomething.org/
grants/teachsomething for more information and to apply.

Do Something Award

Eligibility Rules:

• The applicant must be 25 OR UNDER (applicants must be born on or after 8/30/1983).
• The applicant must be a U.S. or Canadian citizen (You will be asked to prove citizenship and age if you win).

Judging Criteria:

• The applicant has best identified a problem in his/her community and ways to combat it.
• The applicant is passionate and committed to empowering the community in which s/he works.
• The applicant has cultivated long-term and respectful relationships within his/her community.
• The applicant demonstrates that s/he has directly and individually fueled the success of his/her work.
• The applicant has extensively and tangibly improved the community in which they work.
• The applicant has created great awareness about his/her issue or cause.
• The applicant is confident and enthusiastic about being a leader and change-maker.
• The applicant has a long term vision for the growth and sustainability of his/her work.

See http://www.dosomething.org/programs
/awards_guidelines for more information and to apply.

2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge -- DEADLINE EXTENDED: Dec 5

Rules, guidelines, and FAQs.

USAID is proud to announce the launch of the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge. Brought to you by the Global Development Commons.

Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. USAID challenges you to explore its potential through an innovation for maximum development impact in areas such as health, banking, education, agricultural trade, or other pressing development issues.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Government agency that delivers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide on behalf of the American people, is sponsoring a challenge to find the best in mobile innovations for good. Through a NetSquared community vote, fifteen finalists will be chosen. A panel of judges, selected by USAID, will then select the winners. The first place winner will receive a grant of $10,000, the two runner-ups will receive grants of $5,000 each. All three winners will have the opportunity to present their ideas to senior USAID officials, experts, and the public in Washington D.C.

Here's How It Works:
Individuals and organizations working with mobile technologies to create change are invited to share their projects with the community through the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge submission form. Once you've hit submit for your challenge, it's public. This provides you with an opportunity to get feedback from your community, the USAID community, the NetSquared community and other friendly collaborators.

Once the project submission process has closed, we will hold a community vote to select the top fifteen projects. Those projects will then go in front of a panel of USAID-selected judges who will determine the three winners.

How To Apply

MEAF Inclusion Champion Award -- DEADLINE: Dec 1

Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation

Inclusion Champion Award

The MEAF Inclusion Champion Award honors individuals who have made significant efforts to promote the full inclusion of youth with disabilities in society. The focus of the efforts may include, but is not limited to, helping to create a culture of inclusion within an organization or community or developing innovative strategies for inclusive programming in: school activities, after-school programs, community service, and leadership development.

The Inclusion Champion is selected each year by a panel of experts in the field, and is presented during the Kids Included Together (KIT) annual conference in April. The award consists of a trophy and $1000 donated to the charity of the Champion's choice.

Criteria for selection:

• Evidence that attitudes have changed and inclusion has been embraced due to the individual's efforts


• Measurable impact on the lives of young people with and without disabilities due to the individual's efforts


• Sustainability of inclusion outcomes

To nominate, please send a letter (maximum 2 pages exclusive of attachments) with the following information:

1. Name of nominated individual and contact information;


2. Name of nominator and contact information;


3. Detailed description of individual's inclusion efforts and their outcomes;


4. Where possible, include testimony of children and others impacted by these efforts;


5. Photos, media articles and support letters may be attached (note that these items will not be returned).

Please submit your nomination via email or mail by December 1, 2008 to:

Inclusion Champion Award
Kids Included Together
2820 Roosevelt Rd, Suite 202
San Diego, CA 92106

or

info@kitonline.org

Ben & Jerry's Foundation Social Change Projects

Ben & Jerry's Foundation provides support to nonprofit, grassroots organizations throughout the United States that facilitate progressive social change. Grant applicants need to demonstrate that their projects will lead to societal, institutional, and/or environmental change; address the root causes of social or environmental problems; and lead to new ways of thinking and acting. Projects must facilitate leadership development and strengthen the self-empowerment efforts of those who have traditionally been disenfranchised in our society. The Foundation does not make grants to support basic or direct social service programs. Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time. Visit the website to review the funding guidelines and download the application form. http://www.benjerry.com/foundation/

Deadline is ongoing.

Mix It Up Grant Program

Have a great idea about how to challenge social boundaries and bring down the walls that divide your school? We want to help, and, to prove it, we offer $500 grants to support youth-directed programs and projects that address social boundaries in schools or communities.

The Mix It Up Grants Program funds small-scale, youth-directed activist projects that focus on identifying, crossing and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities.

For more information, see http://www.tolerance.org/teens/grants.jsp

The Thomas Ehrlich Engaged Faculty Award

Campus Compact recognizes one faculty member each year for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students' civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education's contributions to the public good. The award - previously known as the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning - is named in honor of. Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University.

One award of $2,000 will be granted to a faculty member from a Campus Compact member institution. Up to ten finalists will also be selected and recognized. The award recipient will be notified in June 2009.

With questions regarding the award, please contact us at awards@compact.org and include "Ehrlich Award" in the subject line or call (617) 357-1881.

Kick Off Your Semester of Service w/ the Souper Bowl of Caring!

Model Service and Change the Game!

Join us for the 20^th Souper Bowl of Caring (January 18 - February 14, 2009).

The Souper Bowl of Caring is a national youth-led movement to fight hunger and poverty around one of our nation's most indulgent times. It began with one group of youth who believed they could make a difference. Now, 20 years later, it is transforming the time around the Super Bowl into a movement of giving and serving. Last year, groups just like yours collected and donated over $10 million in cash and cans. This year, you can help make an even bigger impact!

It's Easy!

1. Register. Go to www.souperbowl.org and sign up. Once registered you'll receive a free Starter Kit including an educational DVD about hunger and poverty and the organizations that help address the needs of hurting people in neighborhoods across the country. You'll also receive a guide to planning your collection, posters, and other tools.
2. Learn, Serve & Collect. Some time between January 18 and February 14, 2009 incorporate the study of hunger and poverty into some area of the curriculum. Then organize a simple service project and collection of money, canned foods or other items to benefit a nonprofit that serves those in need in your local community. Visit our online Resource Center to access hunger curricula, event materials and other helpful tools.
3. Report. As soon as your collection is completed, report your total online or call 1-800-358-SOUP (7687). Reporting is the only way to tie your collection to the national movement.
4. Donate. Finally, donate 100% of your collection to the nonprofit of your choosing in your own community and celebrate the power of caring!

Register today at www.souperbowl.org!

State Farm Award for Service-Learning Excellence in Teacher Education

There is still time to submit an entry!

Due date: December 14, 2009

Do you want to highlight your school's teacher education program?

Does you school use service-learning as a pedagogy in preparing teachers?

Do students from your school have an opportunity for service-learning experience in student teaching?

Then, the State Far Award for Service-Learning Excellence in Teacher Education is for you! Through this award, we 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.

The submission deadline is December 14, 2009. All nomination packages must be complete and received by NSLP by 5 PM EST. Award winner will be selected by a panel of teacher educators with experience in service-learning. The award winner will be announced on January 28, 2009.

Visit http://nslp.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=SI_educationaward&JServSessionIda001=hpzdjz1lb1.app33c for official rules, application, and more information.

Have questions or need more information? Contact Partnership Director of Member Engagement Christina Kwon at ckwon@aed.org

Reducing Risk Behaviors by Promoting Positive Youth Development

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to enhance our understanding of effective positive youth development programs and the mechanisms responsible for positive health and developmental outcomes. This will be accomplished through the development, implementation, and evaluation of new or improved positive youth development programs, the evaluation of existing successful programs, or the evaluation of effective, evidence-based, gender-inclusive programs that are adapted, translated, or disseminated for new populations of youth and adolescents. -Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the Research Project Grant (R01) grant award mechanism and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-08-242, that encourages applications under the R03 mechanism. -Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications.

See http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=
LsBhfQnJLBrPL73hpQ1WYDBfpkZQbyQYsJ9j6bZqnZDpqLj
6tpYf!964819048?oppId=18235&flag2006=true&mode=VIEW for more information.

YouthBuild Grants

Deadline: January 15, 2009

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL or Department), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the availability of approximately $47 million in grant funds for YouthBuild Grants.

YouthBuild Grants will be awarded through a competitive process. Grant funds will be used to provide disadvantaged youth with: the education and employment skills necessary to achieve economic self-sufficiency in occupations in high demand and postsecondary education and training opportunities; opportunities for meaningful work and service to their communities; and opportunities to develop employment and leadership skills and a commitment to community development among youth in low-income communities. As part of their programming, YouthBuild grantees will tap the energies and talents of disadvantaged youth to increase the supply of permanent affordable housing for homeless individuals and low-income families and to help youth develop the leadership, learning, and high-demand occupational skills needed to succeed in today's global economy.

See http://www.doleta.gov/grants/find_grants.cfm#youthbuild for more information.

AmeriCorps State and National Grants

AmeriCorps grants are generally awarded to eligible organizations to recruit, train, and manage AmeriCorps members who address community needs. An AmeriCorps member is an individual who is enrolled in an approved national service position and engages in community service. Members may receive a living allowance while serving.

What are AmeriCorps State and National grants? Subject to the availability of appropriations for fiscal year 2008, the Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation) announces the anticipated availability of approximately $21,288,000 to award new and re-competing AmeriCorps State and National grants. The grants in AmeriCorps State are: State Competitive, Territories Competitive, States without Commissions, and State Education Award Program (EAP).

See http://www07.grants.gov/search/synopsis.do;jsessionid=JdTGQQR2WTpwQlLJ
hv4Bn2GdB3lK1F472NJfL4MJps1CxWpGmQZg!-17322681 for more information.

Key Change Grant

DoSomething.org and the GRAMMY Foundation have teamed up to give out $25,000 in community action grants to fund teen-led projects that use music to make a difference. This can be a project that you've already started or an idea that you've been cooking up. All projects should be around the theme of using music to make a difference in your local and/or global community.

In addition to answering 4 essays and several detail questions about your project you will need the following to complete your application:

Required

• A budget detailing how the $500 will be used
• A recommendation from a non-family member

Optional(but recommended)

• Links to photos and video of your project
• Your project's website

See http://www.dosomething.org/grants/keychange for more information.

Palm Foundation Cash Grant

The Palm Foundation will make cash grants to non-profit organizations that focus on issues directly related to the education of youth at risk - particularly those that have also submitted applications to the Palm Foundation for product donations and anticipate the need for financial assistance to support their product-donation proposals. In addition, preference will be given to organizations with a strong underserved outreach component. The Foundation is particularly interested in supporting the following organizations and programs:

1. Magnet and alternative schools and/or programs/organizations/institutions serving disadvantaged youth; and
2. Projects that assist children with special education needs (e.g. autism, cognitive disabilities) and programs supporting student progress (e.g. the development and implementation of individualized education plans for children in foster care).

Grant Range:

The Foundation grants range from $1,000.00 to $25,000.00 per grant. While there is no guarantee of multiple-year funding, the Foundation will consideration multiple-year grants for a period not to exceed three (3) years.

Requests will be carefully reviewed by the Palm Foundation's Employee Advisory Group. Requests must be received by the following date for consideration:

Receive by: December 1

Notified by: January 15

Proposals received after the deadline may be held for the next distribution cycle.

See http://www.palm.com/us/company/
corporate/foundation/cash_grants.html for more information.

Young Parents Demonstration Program

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the availability of approximately $5 million to fund demonstration grants that target the employment and training needs of young parents. The Young Parents Demonstration program is to provide educational and occupational skills training leading to family economic self-sufficiency to both mothers and fathers, and expectant mothers ages 16 to 24. Projects funded will be encouraged to serve young parents in high-risk categories, including those who are court-involved, in the child welfare or foster care system, homeless, or victims of child abuse.

See http://www.doleta.gov/grants/find_grants.cfm#young for more information.

We Are A Solution: Youth Changing the World through Service-Learning Multimedia Showcase

Due date: January 12, 2009

Do you want to have the chance to win $500 for your school/organization?

Do you want to showcase your school/organization’s service-learning work?

Are you talented with making videos or taking pictures?

Do you want to get the word out about service-learning?

Then, the We Are a Solution: Youth Changing the World through Service-Learning Multimedia Showcase is for you! Through this national service-learning recognition program for youth, by youth, young people can express how they are transforming their communities, their schools, and even their own lives through service-learning.

The submission deadline is January 12, 2009. Entry packages must be complete and received by NSLP by 5 PM EST. Limit on entry per youth group/team/class. Entries will be sorted into three divisions by grade level: Elementary School (K-5), Middle School (6-8), and High School (9-12). Winners will be selected by public voting from a pool of expert judge determined finalists. All winners will be announced on March 18. 2009.

Visit http://nslp.convio.net/
site/PageServer?pagename=sl_contest_2009 for official rules, application, and more information.

Civic Learning and Civic Action grants

Eligibility:

Principal Investigators applying for a Research Grant must be affiliated with a school district, a college or university, a research facility, or a cultural institution. The Foundation accepts proposals from institutions and/or researchers from the U.S. and internationally. Researchers must also have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field or appropriate experience in an education-related profession.

Restrictions:

Under most circumstances, grantees may not be named as a principal investigator on two research grants simultaneously from the Spencer Foundation.

Proposal Submission Guidelines and Review Process

Once you have determined that you are eligible and have reviewed the research priorities described in the Initiative on Civic Learning and Civic Action description, please follow the guidelines provided for submitting a proposal, which vary slightly depending on the level of funding you will be requesting.

See http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/civic-learning
-and-civic-action-application-guidelines for more information.

Congressional Research Awards

Deadline: All proposals must be received no later than February 1, 2009.

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. A total of up to $30,000 will be available in 2009. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500.

The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.

See http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm for more information.

Habitat for Humanity Service Learning Partnership

A new service-learning partnership supported by the State Farm Insurance Companies will provide funds to teachers and schools to develop and implement service learning projects in partnership with their local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. For the 2007-2008 school year, teachers from, Houston County AL, Marion County IN, Hennepin County MN, BernalilloCounty NM, and Benton County WA will be paired with local Habitat affiliates who are able and eager to work with youth. Teachers may apply for a one-year grant of up to $7,000 that will cover educational expenses. This includes up to $5,000 in assistance for the local Habitat Affiliate. The grant also includes an additional travel scholarship for teachers and affiliate staff to attend the NYLC Conference in Minnesota in 2008. To learn more, contact Maria Pyra at mpyra@habitat.org

Students Serve Grant

Deadline: November 15, 2008

Students Serve is a unique nonprofit because it is managed completely by college students who volunteer their time. At this point, the Students Serve team has awarded funds for 6 grants, providing services as varied as an art program for low-income youth, a recycling program for wheelchairs, and a shelter for abused women. Students Serve has been mentioned or featured in several publications, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, Tennessean, Daily Press, and other regional newspapers.

Applications for projects that will be completed in Spring 2009 are due November 15th, 2008.

Click Here to Download the Students Serve application

After reviewing all of the guidelines at http://studentsserve.com/?page_id=5 and completing the application, email it to:

Kaitlyn Bayley: kbayley@studentsserve.org

Have 2 people who know you well, professors or community leaders, mail recommendation letters for you and your project to the address on the Contact page.

Disney Minnie Grants GYSD 2009... Deadline extended to November 16

The Walt Disney Company and Youth Service America are excited to announce grants of up to $500 to support child-led service projects. These grants support children (ages 5-14) in planning and implementing service projects in their community. Teachers, older youth (15-25), and youth-serving organizations are also eligible to apply, if they engage younger children in planning and implementing the project. A significant part of the service must take place on GYSD 2009, April 24-26. We particularly encourage applicants to address environmental issues and to seek to empower children as young citizens through their projects.

Applicants can use the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a reference and review past grantees’ projects from all over the world. Applications are welcome from all countries. Applicants from India, China and Russia are especially encouraged to apply. While grant information is made available in Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish, applications will only be accepted in English (an online translation tool is available at the YSA website). Past Disney Minnie Grantees are also eligible to apply.

Questions? Email MinnieGrant@ysa.org.
Deadline: November 16, 2008.

Be sure to download the correct application and review all application materials, available at http://www.YSA.org/awards.

Deadline extended to November 20... Youth Leaders for Literacy

The Youth Leaders for Literacy Grant is a $500 award for youth-led literacy projects Youth Leaders for Literacy is an initiative of the National Education Association (NEA) and Youth Service America (YSA) to help youth direct their enthusiasm and creativity into reading-related service projects. Grant applications should propose youth leadership in developing and implementing a literacy project that begins on NEA's Read Across America Day, March 2, 2009, and culminates on YSA's Global Youth Service Day, April 24-26, 2009. During the six-week program period and beyond, we hope to create a groundswell of literacy service in communities across the country.

The NEA and Youth Service America developed the Youth Leaders for Literacy program in 2001 to encourage and celebrate literacy service of our nation's young people, and to provide them with resources to conduct reading-related activities that benefit others. Making a difference in the lives of America's children is what the relationship between the NEA and YSA is all about.

Learn more at: http://www.nea.org/readacross/volunteer/index.html

Download the application: http://www.nea.org/readacross/volunteer/images/2009yllgrantapp.pdf

Grant application deadline extended to Monday, Nov 10, 2008

Training Grants are still available to attend the Fall Institute, Service Learning: A Strategy for Keeping Youth in School.

Grant application deadline has been extended until Monday, November 10, 2008.

Visit www.igesl.org for more information, call 215-945-8118, or email jcote@igesl.org.

Institute Overview

Young people across the country have been learning academic skills, meeting standards, and finding meaningful opportunities to participate in projects designed to help their families and communities prepare for and respond to disasters or emergencies through service learning.

Join us at the Hyatt Hotel in historic Philadelphia for this fun 2 day interactive institute. Participants will acquire knowledge, skills, and resources related to implementing high quality service learning, with an emphasis on school and community safety, disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Who should attend?

Teams of teachers, students, school administrators, community based staff, AmeriCorps members and anyone interested in connecting disaster preparedness and response or school and community safety into their curriculum through service learning.

UnitedHealth HEROES mini-grants

Mini-grants of up to $1000 are available for service-learning projects addressing childhood obesity.

UnitedHealthcare and Youth Service America are excited to offer the UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning grant program for youth-led community education projects in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee, and in the following specific areas: selected counties of South Florida, Illinois (Chicagoland and Peoria), and New York (Long Island, New York City, and Syracuse).

We encourage semester-long projects that launch in February, and celebrate Global Youth Service Day, April 24-26, 2009.

Deadline: January 15, 2009.

Learn more about eligibility and the application process at servenet.org.

James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards

Call for nominations:

The James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards recognize individual leaders who are advancing innovative and effective solutions to significant California issues. We anticipate making four to six awards in 2009, the program’s fourth year. The leaders we seek to recognize may be working in any sector — nonprofit, public or private — and in any field, such as education, health, housing, economic development or the environment.

Award recipients will each receive $125,000 to support their work to benefit the people of California.

Nominations are due by January 16, 2009, and awards will be announced in the summer of 2009.

For more information about eligibility and the nomination process:
http://www.irvine.org/leadershipAwards/