GRANTS & AWARDS make sure to check them out
NYLC’s Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award NEW!Deadline Extended: November 8The Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award recognizes service-learning programs and projects that demonstrate outstanding youth leadership. This award focuses on projects that show a high level of youth initiative in all areas including identifying an authentic need, planning the service, and putting that plan into action. Teams of young people participating in service-learning projects can apply. One winner will be selected to receive this award at MONUMENTAL in Washington D.C., April 9-12, 2014. The winner will receive $1,000 to support the program, along with travel, lodging, and registration for the conference for two youth participants and one adult leader. http://bit.ly/1gOPZho |
NYLC’s Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award NEW!Deadline Extended: November 8The Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award recognizes those who have equipped young people to lead and serve, both through their direct work with youth and by nurturing other practitioners. Nominations are accepted from the general public, and a committee of leaders from the service-learning field will select the winners. One winner will be selected. This award will be presented at MONUMENTAL in Washington D.C., April 9-12, 2014. The selected practitioner will receive $1,000 to maintain and develop service-learning programs in his or her organization or school, along with travel, lodging, and registration for the conference.http://bit.ly/1gOPZho |
KaBOOM! Let’s Play Engineered Wood Fiber Surfacing Grants and Let’s Play Maintenance GrantsDeadline: Rolling (Monthly)Thanks to generous support from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, KaBOOM! will be awarding grants of $750 each to communities who wish to top-off their Engineered Wood Fiber safety surfacing or who are working to make their existing playgrounds cleaner, safer and more inviting. The Let’s Play Engineered Wood Fiber Surfacing Grant and Let’s Play Maintenance Grant are currently available.http://bit.ly/12zv3lc |
J-Serve Start-Up GrantsDeadline: RollingJ-Serve is the International Day of Jewish Youth Service. Through the generosity of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, grants are available for J-Serve 2014 - April 6, 2014. $500 micro grant awards are available to communities that plan and execute projects that bring a minimum of 10 and maximum of 74 Jewish teens together in partnership with a least two movements or agencies in the community. Micro-grants will be accepted on a rolling basis, and grants will continue to be awarded as long as funding remains available..http://bit.ly/111Szb3 |
Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger ScholarshipDeadline: December 5Sodexo Foundation is excepting applications for its Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger Scholarship program October 5 - December 5, 2013. Through scholarship awards, Sodexo Foundation recognizes and rewards students, ages 5-25, who are driving awareness and mobilizing youth to be catalysts for innovative models and solutions to eliminate hunger across the country. The scholarship recipients each receive $5,000 for their education as well as a $5,000 grant for the hunger-related charity of their choice. Learn more and apply atwww.SodexoFoundation.org |
2014 Best Intergenerational Communities AwardsDeadline Extended: December 6MetLife Foundation and Generations United are searching the nation for communities that place immense value on intergenerational connections and quality of life for all. If your community fits that description, apply for the third annual Best Intergenerational Communities Awards program.http://bit.ly/GNZpfz |
Starbucks Youth Action GrantsDeadline: December 15The Starbucks Foundation is interested in supporting organizations that equip young people ages 15 to 24 years old - especially those not engaged in employment, education, or training - in business savvy, social conscience, and collaborative communication. They will consider grants between $10,000 and $30,000. http://bit.ly/1bKhGIz |
MADD Power of You(th) Video Contest NEW!Deadline: December 20Enter MADD’s Power of You(th) Video Contest by answering the question, “If You Don’t Drink Alcohol Today, What Could Your Tomorrow Be?” with a 15-second Instagram video. The contest winner and the school with the most submissions will EACH win $1,500! Entrants must be U.S. citizens between the ages of 13 and 18. http://bit.ly/Ag2znC |
2014 C-SPAN StudentCam Competition NEW!Deadline: January 20StudentCam is an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think critically about issues that affect our communities and our nation, sponsored by C-SPAN. StudentCam’s theme for 2014 is: “A Message to the U.S. Congress: What’s the most important issue the U.S. Congress should consider in 2014?” Maximum award: $5,000, plus $750 to spend on digital video equipment for his/her school. Eligibility: students grades 6-12, individually or in teams. http://cs.pn/wo6O3b |
Daily Point of Light AwardDeadline: RollingThe power of the individual to spark change and improve the world - that’s what the Daily Point of Light Award celebrates. Nominate a local hero for a Daily Point of Light Award. Winners get formally recognized by Points of Light, a media advisory sent to their community, a certificate signed by President George H. W. Bush - and a bit of the world’s spotlight. http://bit.ly/15XKMSl |
World We Want Foundation GrantsDeadline: RollingThe World We Want Foundation promotes and supports Young Global Citizens making positive social change in their communities and around the world. They work with and through Partner Organizations and Mentors youth applicants provide; help young people design and conduct meaningful Social Action Projects and acquire substantive knowledge and 21st-century skills while creating social value; provide micro-grants to support their Projects; provide an online funding platform to encourage and allow others to help fund their Projects; and provide an online Showcase to share their Stories of Social Impact with the world.http://bit.ly/11IE94t
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DoSomething.org Seed GrantsDeadline: RollingAre you working to start a community action project or program with your friends? Do you need money to put your ideas into action? A $500 Do Something Seed Grant is given out every week to help young people just like YOU! These grants can be used towards project ideas and programs that are just getting started, or to jump-start your program and realize your ideas for the first time. These grants can also be used towards projects that are already developed and sustainable, towards the next steps of your project and organization to help you as you look to expand your project and grow your impact.http://bit.ly/PQYfTr |
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