Community Based Learn and Serve Grant Opportunity due March 23rd

CaliforniaVolunteers, in its role as the state service commission, is pleased to announce the availability of grant funding to support partnerships that will implement community-based service-learning projects. If you are interested in applying, please download and read our Request for Applications and accompanying instructions, and submit your concept paper to our office by March 23, 2009.

Learn and Serve America Community-Based grants are designed to involve school-age youth (K-12) in community-based service learning programs that provide direct and demonstrable educational, public safety, human, or environmental service and to provide training and technical assistance to youth service organizations. Learn and Serve’s parent agency, the Corporation for National and Community Service anticipates the availability of approximately $4.2 million for the state commissions to provide subgrants, training, and other assistance to local partnerships to implement community-based service learning projects. These funds will be awarded nationally to an estimated five to eight eligible applicants with awards ranging from approximately $350,000 to $450,000 annually for a project period of up to three years.

CaliforniaVolunteers anticipates that the 2009 Learn and Serve grantmaking process will be a competitive one at the national level, based on limited funds. Please note the below timeline for concept paper submissions. Please also check our Web site for updates.

2009 Grantmaking timeline:

• Request for Application Released – February 24, 2009 • Concept Papers Due – March 23, 2009 • Preliminary Funding Announcements – April 1, 2009

FINAL DEADLINE: Applicant Submission to the Corporation – April 14, 2009

Web site link to RFA and supporting documents: http://www.californiavolunteers.org/index.php/AmeriCorps/detail4/