Funding-Martin
Luther King Lead Organizer Grants; November 18,
2011
Sponsor
Youth
Service America
Description
Youth
Service America and the Corporation for National and Community Service will
support up to sixteen MLK Day Lead Organizers working to coordinate Martin
Luther King Day of Service (January 16, 2012) activities.
The
goal of the MLK Day Lead Organizers program is to engage youth and adult
volunteers on the MLK Day of Service and throughout the year by encouraging
families to address some of the nation's most pressing issues. MLK Day also may
provide a starting point for a Semester of Service and/or involvement in
national days of service and other volunteer activities in 2012.
The
program is open to nonprofit organizations, K-12 schools, and colleges and
universities in all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Up
to sixteen grantees will receive $4,000 planning grants as well as significant
training and technical assistance from YSA.
Grantees
will be required to engage at least three thousand volunteers (including at
least one thousand youth volunteers between the ages of age 5 and 25) in
community service or service-learning projects on MLK Day; build or strengthen
partnerships with at least five partner organizations; engage the media and
public officials; and address one or more strategic issue areas (economic
opportunity, health, environment, education and literacy, disaster preparedness
and response, and veterans and military families).
Due
Date: November
18, 2011
Link
to Full Announcement
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=355600034
Sent
to lists: Community
Engagement, B&E, Communication/Information Science, Education, Public
Health, Environmental Sciences, Homeland Security, Family
10/03/11b
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