Project Ignition Funding

Car crashes are the biggest killer of teens today, and Project Ignition is out to change that. Project Ignition lets high school students, teachers, and community program leaders work together to create innovative service-learning projects promoting teen driver safety.

Teams create safety awareness campaigns using their choice of media. The possibilities are as far-ranging as the imagination: TV commercials, print ads, radio spots, websites, direct mail, special events, performances, art exhibitions, publications, short films, and more. Teams can focus on one medium or incorporate several into their campaigns.

Each year, teams of students submit proposals outlining their plans for improving teen driver safety, and 25 are awarded $2,000 grants to turn their plans into action. Teams conduct their projects, prepare a portfolio of their work for judging, and the top 10 teams go on to attend the The National Service-Learning Conference, meet youth from programs from across the United States, and participate in the National Teen Driver Safety Youth Summit. A national panel of judges will select the Best of the Best, earning that team an additional grant of $10,000 presented by the partnership of State Farm and NYLC.

UPDATE!
Applications for 2009-2010 are now online! Be sure to visit the official Project Ignition website for more information and to download your application. To participate, applications are due by June 30, 2009.

Go to http://www.nylc.org/pages-programs-initiatives-Project_Ignition?oid=4968 for more information.