(NAME-MCE) Organizations Invited to Apply for Youth at the Center Grants

[Christina Wessell Batcheler]

Please spread to your networks...thank you.
 
Youth at the Center Grants (US Applicants Only)
Youth Service America (YSA) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of Justice are offering
$2,000 grants to help organizations replicate successful youth
engagement experiences.  Successful applicants will involve youth in
addressing the world's most pressing social issues, such as climate
change, hunger, disease, nutrition, literacy, disaster relief, poverty,
and more. 
Eligible applicants are local, state, or national organizations that are
part of a national network, organization, or broader coalition of
organizations and want to replicate their successful youth engagement
experience (for youth ages 5-25) throughout that network without a youth
strategy. Examples include but are certainly not limited to: food banks,
zoos, housing authorities, and other non-profit organizations addressing
a social issue.
Applicants should plan to use Global Youth Service Day as a primary
vehicle to engage youth in the issue addressed. The grant can be used to
promote participation in Global Youth Service Day 2008 and 2009.
Therefore, applicants are encouraged to pursue funding for an effort
that takes place over a multi-year period.
Applications must be received by Friday, November 30th. For more
information, visit YSA.org/awards
<http://ysa.org/AwardsGrants/tabid/58/Default.aspx> .
 
-- Christina Wessell Batcheler
Christina Wessell Batcheler  -  Director of Communications 
Youth Service America (YSA) 
Phone: 202-296-2992  x  128  |  Fax: 202-296-4030  |  Cell: 240-483-6288
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Join Us: 
20th annual Global Youth Service Day in the United States events take
place April 25-27, 2008 - www.YSA.org/NYSD <http://www.ysa.org/NYSD> 
 
Internationally, Global Youth Service Day events take place in more than
100 countries April 25-27, 2008 - www.GYSD.org <http://www.gysd.org/>