Do you have an idea for a service-learning project that will impact your community? Learn and Serve America provides grant support, primarily through intermediaries, to diverse school-community partnerships to develop and sustain service-learning projects. Generally, grants are for a period of three years, renewable annually contingent upon performance and the availability of funds.
What You Can Do With Learn and Serve America Grants
Purpose of Grants: The purpose of higher education grants is to expand participation in community service and service-learning by supporting innovative community service programs carried out through institutions of higher education that act as civic institutions to meet the human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs of neighboring communities. Emphasis is placed both on institutional change to support service and service-learning within higher education and on community problem-solving and capacity-building.
The purpose of community-based grants is to promote the development and sustainability of high-quality community-based service-learning programs in youth-serving community organizations across the nation. Funds will be used by intermediary organizations to create curriculum materials; support training and technical assistance activities; make subgrants to local organizations that will implement service-learning programs for youth ages five to seventeen; and strengthen, expand, and anchor a network of youth-serving community-based organizations that implement service-learning programs.
The purpose of school-based grants to expand high-quality service-learning in K-12 schools with to help the Corporation reach its goal of fostering service-learning in at least fifty percent of all public schools by the year 2010. This competition is also intended to increase the percentage of Learn and Serve participants who come from disadvantaged backgrounds from forty percent to sixty percent.
Find out more about eligibility, project responsibilities and how to apply:
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