HCHY List: $500 Youth Leaders for Literacy Grants

[Michael Minks]

The NEA/YSA Youth Leaders for Literacy Grants deadline has been extended
to November 20, 2008 to give student organizers time to complete and
turn in their project proposals. 

 

The Youth Leaders for Literacy Grant is a $500 award for youth-led
literacy projects. Youth Leaders for Literacy is an initiative of the
National Education Association (NEA) and Youth Service America (YSA) to
help youth direct their enthusiasm and creativity into reading-related
service projects. Grant applications should propose youth leadership in
developing and implementing a literacy project that begins on NEA's Read
Across America Day, March 2, 2009, and culminates on YSA's Global Youth
Service Day, April 24-26, 2009. During the six-week program period and
beyond, we hope to create a groundswell of literacy service in
communities across the country.

The NEA and Youth Service America developed the Youth Leaders for
Literacy program in 2001 to encourage and celebrate literacy service of
our nation's young people, and to provide them with resources to conduct
reading-related activities that benefit others. Making a difference in
the lives of America's children is what the relationship between the NEA
and YSA is all about.

Learn more at: http://www.nea.org/readacross/volunteer/index.html
Download the application:
http://www.nea.org/readacross/volunteer/images/2009yllgrantapp.pdf

 

 

Michael Minks
Manager of Outreach
Youth Service America - CFC #11577
1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 200 | Washington, DC 20005
P: 202-296-2992 ext. 125 | F: 202-296-4030
mminks at ysa.org
www.YSA.org | www.SERVEnet.org | www.ServiceVote.org | www.GYSD.org
<http://www.gysd.org/> 

 

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