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Iowa 21st Century Community Learning Centers
FY17 Application for Grant Reviewers & Facilitators

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Seeking Applications for Peer Review Process
The Iowa Department of Education is seeking applications for their peer review process for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers FY17 grant application competition. This process ensures that quality proposals are selected for funding. Peer review process teams will include qualified individuals with diverse expertise and geographic, racial and ethnic representation. The best reviewers will be individuals who are familiar with high-quality youth programs in communities, schools, and faith-based or other organizations that serve youth.

Applications are now open for both Peer Reviewers and Team Facilitators for the 2017 grant competition. 
Applications are due by Noon on November 11, 2016 via e-mail to [email protected]


Peer Reviewers and Team Facilitators must be available to participate in an online webinar training on December 20, 2016 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. The Peer Review Timeline, reviewer and facilitator roles and expectations, the application and all other supporting materials can be found here.

Peer Reviewers score and comment on all scoring criteria for each application assigned. Typically each reviewer is responsible to score three to five grant applications. Reviewers will receive a $150 stipend, contingent upon their in-person attendance at the Reviewers and Facilitators Conference, a consensus grant review process), on January 25, 2017. 

Team Facilitators do not score grant applications, but familiarize themselves with the materials in order to facilitate the consensus scoring process for the team they are assigned to lead. Facilitators will receive a $200 stipend, contingent upon their in-person attendance at the Reviewers and Facilitators Conference (a consensus grant review process) on January 25, 2017. 

The application is also available on the Iowa Department of Education website (scroll down to "Peer Review Process").

About the 21st Century Community Learning Centers
The 21st Century Community Learning Center (21CCLC) grant serves as a supplementary program that can enhance State or local reform efforts to improve student academic achievement and to support their overall development. 21CCLC funds create and expand afterschool programs that offer extended learning opportunities (before school, afterschool, summer programming) for children and their families. The 21CCLC program is a federal title program (Title IV, part B). The application for the 2017 21CCLC grant competition in Iowa was released in September 2016. 
 
For more information, please contact:
 
Rhonda Calderon 
21CCLC Technical Assistance & Support Lead 
Iowa Afterschool Alliance
515-237-0324
FY17 RFA Available on Iowa Dept. of Education Website 
The 2017 Request for Applications (RFA) is now available on the Iowa Department of Education website along with all supporting materials at https://www.educateiowa.gov/pk-12/title-programs/title-iv-part-b-21st-century-community-learning-centers  
The Iowa Afterschool Alliance is under contract with the Iowa Department of Education to provide support and technical assistance for the Iowa 21CCLC program.