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Grants for Youth-Led Service Initiatives |
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State Farm is teaming up with Youth Service America to offer grants of up to $1,000 to youth-led service-learning initiatives. Eligible programs will engage youth in service-learning, an effective teaching and learning strategy that promotes student learning, academic achievement, workplace readiness, and healthy communities. State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grants encourage semester-long projects (following YSA's Semester of Service framework) that launch on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, January 17, 2011, and culminate on Global Youth Service Day, April 15-17, 2011. Eligible candidates include teachers, service-learning coordinators, and students in a public school, or staff and youth in a community-based organization working with a public school. YSA will host two application webinars in September and October. Deadline is October 15, 2010. For more information, click here.
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Nominate a Teen for Academic and Community Service Achievements |
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The Nestle Very Best in Youth Program sponsored by Nestlé USA, honors young people (ages 13 to 18) who have excelled in school and who are making their community and the world a better place. To be eligible, applicants must between 13 and 18 years of age. Each winner will also receive a trip with his/her parent or legal guardian to Los Angeles for the Nestlé Very Best In Youth awards ceremony. The trip will include round-trip air travel, hotel accommodations for three nights, and $500 in spending money. In addition, Nestlé will donate $1,000 in the name of each winner to the charity of his or her choice. Deadline is November 1, 2010. For more information, click here.
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DonorsChoose.org is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that public schools often don't have. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas can become classroom reality when concerned individuals choose projects to fund! Visit www.donorschoose.org and don't forget to tell your teachers to register their pet project! |
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Grants for Youth Volunteers! |
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Powered By Service currently has two grant opportunities available for youth volunteers. Sponsored by the United Nations Foundation, the "Nothing but Nets" grant is designed to help youth create projects that increase awareness and funds for the purchase of bed nets to prevent the spread of malaria in Africa. Sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service's Learn and Serve America, the "What's Your Power?" grant opportunity offers funding for projects that address any issue. Youth are invited to design a project around the cause that interests them. Deadlines are open. For more information, click here.
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Get a Grant for Your Volunteer Vacation |
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Travelocity's Travel for Good program offers the Change Ambassadors Grant to help support Americans who wish to travel to participate in volunteer opportunities (volunteer vacations). Grants of up to $5,000 are awarded on a quarterly basis. For more information, click here.
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The Do Something Foundation is awarding 52 grants of $500 each to help young people implement or expand a community action project, program, or organization. To be eligible, applicants must be no older than 25 and a U.S. or Canadian citizen. Do Something grants cannot be used to fund travel costs, individual sponsorships, shipping costs, individual school fees, or fundraising expenses. Do Something grant applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Grants will be awarded on a weekly basis. For more information, click here.
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Awards for Community Heroes |
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Talk show host and philanthropist Jenny Jones has announced that she will donate an additional $1 million to continue her Jenny's Heroes community grant program. The Jenny's Heroes program awards grants to individuals who submit the best ideas for tangible, lasting community projects. Jenny's Heroes provides grants of up to $25,000 each to fund projects that promise long-term community benefits. Through the fifty grant recipients so far, funds have been used to provide items and services such as library books, school computers, firefighting gear, nursing home upgrades, sports equipment, free dental services, wheelchairs, coats for children in domestic violence shelters, and a running track at a women's prison. The program's focus is primarily on smaller communities where fundraising can be difficult. For more information on Jenny's Heroes, click here.
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"Make It Matter!" and win $1,500 for your favorite nonprofit! |
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The Reader's Digest Foundation is giving money to nonprofits based on inspiring stories submitted by the public. Reader’s Digest will choose one individual whose story of giving back serves as an inspiration to others. For each story, the Reader’s Digest Foundation will donate $1,500 to a nonprofit organization that is associated either with the story or the cause. To submit your story, click here.
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