The Superstar Foundation 2008 Veronica Grants will be awarded to five outstanding direct service professionals, one for each of the following categories: Youth Development, Afterschool/Out-of-School Youth Services, Adult Men’s Services, Adult Women’s Services, and Family Services. Grant awards are $2000 each. Applications must be postmarked October 31, 2008.
URL: http://www.superstarfoundation.org/
“Modestly funded and often stretched to their limits, the organizations that provide out-of-school time (OST) programming face mounting demands to deliver higher quality services to more children. The Wallace Foundation recently asked several experts in the OST field to identify what they think are the key organizational, administrative and management obstacles impeding OST providers from [...]
The Adobe Youth Voices Program provides resources for educators, including links to a wide range of instructional materials and tutorials on digital photography, digital video, and digital storytelling. It is one of the resources highlighted in the recently launched Technology Curriculum Database, developed by YouthLearn for the U.S. Department of Education-funded National Partnership for Quality [...]
PicoCrickets give young people the raw materials to build their own artistic creations, which they can program to respond to light, sound, and touch. It is one of the resources highlighted in the recently launched Technology Curriculum Database, developed by YouthLearn for the U.S. Department of Education-funded National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning at SEDL. [...]
Dear After-school Leaders,
The Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence is working with the Coalition for Science After School to help improve the quality of science learning resources available to after-school programs. In order to better understand your interests and needs, we are collecting information about your existing science programming. This information will be collected specifically for [...]
Youth Today
Coalition pushes community schools agenda
10.08
Erika Fitzpatrick
Hundreds of organizations are coming together to promote a unified national agendaf or community partnerships that link schools and youth-development organizations.
The Community Agenda for America’s Public Schools, spearheaded by organizations involved in education, after-school programs, higher education, health, family strengthening and mentoring, is modeled in part on the Chicago [...]
Sponsor: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Deadline: 1/30/2009
Amount: varies
Type: Health, Education
Description: The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health program is designed to promote health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions using strategies such as service-learning and community-based participatory research.
The CCPH Annual Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that build on each other’s strengths [...]
Name: Grants Available to Support Summer Camps to Introduce Young People to Careers in Manufacturing and Engineering
Sponsor: Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Foundation
Deadline: 12/12/2008
Amount: varies
Type: Education, Science & Technology
Description: Through a collaborative effort between the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Foundation and the Nuts, Bolts and Thingamajigs Foundation, grants ranging from $2,500 to $5,000 are available to [...]
