Tucson Electric Power and UniSource Energy Services Offer Human Services Grants to Arizona Nonprofits

Sponsor: Tucson Electric Power
Deadline: 9/16/2008
Amount: varies
Type: Social & Economic
Description: Tucson Electric Power and UniSource Energy Services are accepting applications from charitable, nonprofit organizations in the companies’ Arizona service areas. Through the companies’ “Grants That Make a Difference” program, TEP and UES are making a combined total of $145,000 available to nonprofit organizations that help people [...]

Economic Crunch ~ Resources for Families

As partners in our communities, we play an important role in strengthening and supporting our communities, particularly in tough economic times. With record home foreclosures, restrictions in the credit market, and increasing gasoline and food costs, many people – including our co-workers, family members and the people we serve – need a simple way to [...]

School-Age Note of the Day

For 29 years, School-Age NOTES has been providing after-school professionals with trusted and valued resources. The monthly School-Age NOTES newsletter delivers practical articles for directors and staff members, plus a centerfold featuring 30 easy-to-implement program activities and ideas. In addition, School-Age NOTES offers the School-Age Note of the Day. Sent Monday through Friday, this short [...]

YSA Launches Disney Minnie Grants

Youth Service America and Disney are pleased to launch a second round of Disney Minnie Grants to engage children and youth, ages 5-14 as community volunteers. The selected applications will receive $500 to support their youth-led service projects. The deadline is August 30 and projects must take place October 15-November 15, 2008. Grantees from the [...]

First National Youth Care Credential

The Association for Child and Youth Care Practice  (ACYCP) launched its much anticipated professional child and youth care credential in March, billing it as the first national certification program  of its kind. The new credential caps a seven-year effort by practitioners who led ACYCP’s North American Certification Project in an effort to increase standards for those working with [...]

View Program Quality and Youth Outcomes Video

Video and powerpoint materials from this recent webinar hosted by the Forum For Youth Investment’s Ready by 21 Coalition focused on Program Quality and Youth Outcomes and included presentations by Karen Pittman, Charles Smith, and Karen Finn (formerly of the Maryland Governor’s Office for Children and Youth).  The video examines the relationship between program quality [...]

Seeds for Education Grant Program Invites Applications

Name: Seeds for Education Grant Program Invites Applications
Sponsor: Wild Ones
Deadline: 11/15/2008
Amount: varies
Type: Education, Environment, Agriculture
Description: Wild Ones is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the use of natural landscaping with native plant species as an ecologically better alternative to traditional landscaping practices. Wild Ones members and chapters work with schools and nature centers to plant and [...]

Mentoring/Tutoring Orientation

July 2nd, 6:30 PM
1020 N. Horne, Mesa 85203
AFC will provide pizza and soda
RSVP REQUIRED
Arizonans for Children, Inc. would like to help you begin a new relationship.
Our Tutoring and Mentoring Program will help you touch the life of a foster child who desperately needs friendship, academic help and, perhaps most importantly, stability. Through weekly meetings (2-3 [...]

Training Staff to work with Immigrant Youth

From :National Collaboration for Youth
Training Staff to work with Immigrant Youth
This training module is a companion piece to the Preparing Staff to Work with Immigrant Youth publication and contains activities that will support staff on several levels. The first training activity, “Overview: Preparing Staff to Work with Immigrant Youth” is a PowerPoint presentation that [...]

National AfterSchool Association Moves to Washington D.C.

June 8, 2008
Dear Members of the National AfterSchool Association:
As summer sweeps in, the National AfterSchool Association (NAA) is making a long-anticipated shift of operations to Washington, DC.  After an intensive strategic planning process and a significant Spring cleaning, your membership association is now more streamlined in its processes to serve you; more flexible in its [...]