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GRANTS ALERT
October 2012
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Dear colleagues in service,
The following 15 grant and award opportunities from YSA and our Global Youth Service Network partners may interest you, including an opportunity to join the fight to end childhood hunger in your community:
Sodexo Foundation Youth Grants
Deadline: January 31
More than 16 million children live in food insecure homes, not always sure where their next meal will come from. That's why YSA and Sodexo Foundation are calling on young people to "take hunger personally" and join the fight to end childhood hunger.
Sodexo Foundation Youth Grants of $500 grants are available for youth-led service projects that bring together young people, families, Sodexo employees and other community members to address childhood hunger. U.S. young people, ages 5-25, are eligible to apply. Projects will take place on or around Global Youth Service Day, April 26-28, 2013. Learn more and apply at
Want to make a difference? Take action? Solve a tough community problem? YSA can help! Whether you're a kid, teen, educator, or adult mentor, YSA Grants power youth-led service and service-learning projects with funding, training, and resource support. Through YSA Grants, you can harness the creativity, energy and unique perspective of young people to grow stronger communities, foster student achievement, and build workplace readiness skills.
Each year, YSA supports youth-led service with over $1 million in YSA Grants. For more information, visit www.YSA.org/grants
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Grants & Awards From YSA Partners
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KaBOOM! Spruce Up Project Grants
Deadline: Rolling, Next Priority Deadline is October 31
KaBOOM! is awarding grants of $750 to communities who wish to make their playgrounds cleaner, safer and more inviting. You could be one of 100 projects to earn $750 simply by sprucing up a playground for kids! Organize your friends, clean up a playground, and you can become eligible for $750, courtesy of Dr Pepper Snapple Group. The grant is part of the Let's Play initiative to get kids and families active nationwide. http://bit.ly/IIzZfN
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2012 Subaru Healthy Sprouts Award
Deadline: October 31
To be eligible for the 2012 Healthy Sprouts Awards, your school or organization must plan to garden with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18. The selection of winners is based on the demonstrated relationship between the garden program and education related to environmental, nutrition and hunger issues in the United States. Awards will be presented to 50 schools or organizations. Each program will receive: $400 gift certificate to the Gardening with Kids catalog and online store for youth gardening supplies and supporting educational materials; NGA's Eat a Rainbow Kit, full of engaging taste education and nutrition lessons; set of hand tools and three pairs of child-sized gloves; and a Plantcam to document the growth and changes of your garden. http://bit.ly/Oi5P3r
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American Honda Foundation Grants
Deadline: November 1
The American Honda Foundation is supporting broad, innovative and forward-thinking projects that meet the needs of youth, especially minority students. The Foundation is awarding grants of $20,000 to $75,000 for projects that emphasize youth education, specifically in the areas of STEM, the environment, job training, and literacy. http://bit.ly/PzrmYq
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2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
Deadline: November 6
If you're a middle or high school student and you've made a difference through volunteering over the past year, you could win $1,000 and a trip to Washington, D.C., next May - by applying for a Prudential Spirit of Community Award! Even more importantly, you could win recognition that might inspire other young people to follow your example. These prestigious awards, sponsored by Prudential Financial and the National Association of Secondary School Principals, have honored more than 100,000 middle and high school students at the local, state and national level over the past 17 years solely for their volunteer work. http://bit.ly/Qkoqh8
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Nestle Very Best in Youth Program
Deadline: November 8
Nestlé helps young people, who want to make a difference, realize their dreams by donating $1,000 in the name of each winner to the charity of his/her choice. Nestlé also awards the winner a trip for them and a parent or guardian to Los Angeles, California for the Nestlé Very Best In Youth awards ceremony. The trip includes round trip coach air travel, hotel accommodations for three nights, and spending money. Contestants must be between 14 and 18 years of age and have parental or legal guardian permission to submit the entry form. Contestants must also demonstrate good citizenship, a strong academic record, and show how they have made a special contribution to their school, church or community. http://bit.ly/MYN5ED
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GenerationOn Club Start Up Grants
Deadline: November 15
GenerationOn is offering 50 start-up grants of $300 each to support generationOn Kids Care Clubs (ages 5-10) and generationOn Service Clubs (ages 11-18) that register by November 15, 2012. Grantees must complete and report back on at least one service project by May 31, 2013. GenerationOn Clubs are an ideal way to rally caring youth and their adult allies in service around issues they see every day. Registered clubs have access to numerous free resources around issue education and project planning. To learn more and apply, visit http://bit.ly/OrPtKf
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Project Ignition Grants
Deadline: November 15
The National Youth Leadership Council® and State Farm® are pleased to announce the availability of $2,000 Project Ignition grants! Public high schools may apply for the grants to address teen driver safety through service-learning. Car crashes remain the number one cause of death for adolescents. Project Ignition is bringing together students, teachers and communities to create change. And they're saving lives. http://bit.ly/pKcD1c
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President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
Deadline: November 29
The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll annually highlights the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and placing more students on a lifelong path of civic engagement. All accredited degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States are eligible to apply. By being admitted to the President's Honor Roll, your institution will be recognized by the President of the United States as a leader and role model in community service for the higher education sector. In addition, Honor Roll institutions receive: assistance with gaining media attention for your achievement, recognition at a national awards ceremony, and a listing on the President's Honor Roll website. http://1.usa.gov/TAxkHr
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Spreading Smiles Service-Learning Photo Contest
Deadline: December 3
Are you a K-12 classroom that is participating in a service-learning project and could use funds to complete your project? Capture a photo of your classroom participating in their project and submit a completed entry form for a chance to win $500, $300, or $200. Online voting takes place Dec 7-17; the top three most voted photos will win one of the three grants. http://bit.ly/Sr1QGy
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Foot Locker Scholar Athletes
Deadline: December 5
The truth is that many deserving students, who have dedicated a great deal of their time to athletics, will not receive athletic scholarships to college. Foot Locker and DoSomething.org will be rewarding twenty incoming college freshmen with $20,000 in scholarship funding for college - not because they scored the most touchdowns, but because of their character and commitment to volunteerism. This is the award for flexing heart, not muscle. http://bit.ly/Qif9UD
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Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger Scholarships
Deadline: December 5
Sodexo Foundation is accepting applications through December 5 for the Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger Scholarships. These scholarships recognize students (kindergarten-graduate school) working to end domestic hunger with $5,000 for college and $5,000 to help those in need. http://bit.ly/Rc7meR
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AmeriCorps State & National Grants
Deadline: January 23
The FY2013 AmeriCorps State and National grant competition is designed to help national service programs achieve greater impact by targeting resources on a core set of challenges: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families. In order to maximize the impact of the public investment in national service, CNCS will fund programs that can demonstrate community impact and solve community problems using an evidence-based or evidence-informed approach (e.g. performance data, research, theory of change). The 2013 competition also provides a new opportunity for state and local officials to work together on public-private partnerships. Specifically, a governor and a mayor may identify a pressing challenge and partner with local nonprofits to apply for grant funding to address it. http://1.usa.gov/YbABSf
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Christopher Columbus Awards
Deadline: February 4
The Christopher Columbus Awards is a national, community-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program for middle school students. The program challenges the students to work in teams of three to four, with an adult coach, to identify a problem in their community and apply the scientific method to create an innovative solution to that problem. Eight finalist teams and their coaches will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Walt Disney World® to attend National Championship Week and compete for cash prizes and the $25,000 Columbus Foundation Community Grant, plus a $200 development grant to further refine their idea. http://bit.ly/PeFhFr
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Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Awards
Deadline: February 28
The Healthy and Sustainable School Food Journalism Competition is designed to bring the hard facts about school food to entire school communities - in the students' own words. Articles submitted for consideration must be about the need for healthy, sustainable school food and must have been published in a school newspaper. U.S. high school students ages 13 to 18 can enter. Best-selling author and food activist Michael Pollan will judge the finalists and select the winners! First prize: $1,500. Second prize: $1,000. Third prize $500. Fourth Prize (x3): $300...Plus, $200 for your journalism class and the opportunity to have your work publicized on Earth Day's website. http://bit.ly/SlxkPk
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Additional Grant Resources
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GrantStation - An online funding resource for organizations seeking grants throughout the world. Providing access to a comprehensive online database of grantmakers, as well as other valuable tools, GrantStation can help your organization make smarter, better-informed fundraising decisions. www.grantstation.com
GrantWatch - Lists current federal government grants, state grants, city grants, local grants, foundation grants, corporation grants, educational grants, international grants and grant resources. www.grantwatch.com
GrantWrangler - A free grants listing service that helps teachers find classroom grants for school funding. www.grantwrangler.com
YouthToday Grants Today - A national source for news, views and important developments in the youth service field from a nonprofit organization. www.youthtoday.org/grants.cfm
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Funding Opportunities - Information on current funding opportunities in the service-learning and national service communities
www.servicelearning.org/funding-opportunities
Grants Alert - A website dedicated to making life a little easier for those who devote their time to searching for education grants and identifying new funding opportunities for their organizations, schools, districts, consortia and state education agencies. www.grantsalert.com
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The Editor
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 Mike Minks Director of Outreach and Innovation
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