Grant Opportunities!
Iniciativa
Ameriquest Mortgage Company Create Your Legacy grant program encourages
young people to develop projects to improve their after-school program
and neighborhood. Maximum Award: $15,000. Eligibility: after-school
programs with 501(c)(3) status offering youth services that emphasize
leadership training, mentoring, community service, academic enrichment,
or the arts. Deadline: January 15, 2007.
http://www.ameriquestcares.org/1SignaturePrograms/CreateYourLegacy.shtml
"Getting Girls to Increase Exercise and Physical Activity"
Women's Sports Foundation GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards inspire
teams to help fight the disturbing physical and psychological health
risks affecting America's inactive youth. Teams must lead their own
team project that will get girls in their communities physically active
and submit a detailed essay or a VHS, DVD or CD-ROM telling about the
project. Maximum Award: $2,500. Eligibility: School, amateur, community
and/or nonprofit affiliated teams whose members are female, enrolled in
9th-12th grade and residents of the United States. Deadline: February
16, 2007.
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/funding/featured.html?record=34
"Rewarding Humanities Programs in School Libraries"
The American Library Association Public Programs Office and the
American Association of School Librarians Sara Jaffarian School Library
Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming recognizes a school
library that has conducted an exemplary program or program series in
the humanities. Maximum Award: $4000. Eligibility: elementary or middle
school (public or private) libraries, or any school library program
that serves children in any combination of grades K-8, that have
conducted a humanities program or program series during the previous
school year. Deadline: February 28, 2007.
http://www.ala.org/ala/ppo/jaffarianaward.htm
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