Awesome list of open grants from MANY

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Youth Leadership Program
Application Deadline: May 31, 2012
The program will support the participation of high school youth and adult educators in intensive, substantive three- to four-week exchanges in the United States.
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Statewide Consumer Network Grant
Application Deadline: May 18, 2012
For the purposes of this funding opportunity, this program seeks to address the needs of underserved and under-represented consumers, such as veterans; those with histories of trauma; those from ethnic, racial, or cultural minority groups; and those who have been involved in the criminal justice system.
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BJA FY 12 Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
Application Deadline: June 7, 2012
The BCJI application requires a consortium of partners (hereinafter referred to as “cross-sector partnership”) to work together to design a strategy addressing a targeted crime problem and respond to the scope of this solicitation.
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Drug Free Communities Mentoring Program
Deadline May 4, 2012.
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Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence
Deadline May 22, 2012.
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OVW Fiscal Year 2012 - Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Program
Includes providing culturally specific programs for children exposed to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking among others.
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OJJDP FY 2012 Mentoring Best Practices Research
Deadline May 1, 2012
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FY 2012 Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program
Deadline May 14, 2012.
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FY 2012 Local Mentoring Coordinator Program
Deadline May 14, 2012.
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Child Welfare - Education System Collaborations to Increase Educational Stability
Deadline May 29, 2012.
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Youth Environmental Outdoor Education and Camps
Deadline  April 23, 2012.
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OJJDP FY 2012 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program
Deadline May, 7, 2012.
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FY 2012 Second Chance Act Juvenile Offender Reentry Program for Demonstration Projects
Deadline May 14, 2012.
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Serving Adult and Youth Ex-Offenders through Strategies Targeted to Characteristics Common to Female Ex-Offenders
Deadline May 4, 2012.
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Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Planning Grants
Deadline May 1, 2012.
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Afterschool innovator awards

[from Philanthropy News Digest] The Afterschool Alliance and the MetLife Foundation are seeking nominations of exemplary afterschool programs serving middle school youth for the MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Awards.

Nominees are sought in four categories. The afterschool and digital learning category is for programs that have demonstrated success with leveraging digital technology to facilitate learning experiences, enhance technical skills, and strengthen critical thinking across core subject areas. The afterschool and arts category is for programs that have demonstrated success in using the arts as means to strengthen self-confidence and self-expression, to build community, and to improve academic and skills development. The afterschool and parent involvement/engagement category is for programs that have demonstrated success in creatively engaging parents to help them become more involved in students' learning both in and outside of school. The afterschool and school improvement category is for programs that have successfully utilized school improvement grant funding to help promote positive change and improved academic outcomes in partnering schools.

The awards aim to identify potentially lesser-known yet effective programs and the individuals running them. Nominees will be judged by the innovative nature of their approach and demonstrated effectiveness.

Program staff and directors are allowed and encouraged to nominate their own program, but a nominator does not have to be officially affiliated with a program to nominate it. Each of the five award winners will receive $10,000 for their program.

Winners will receive additional support (up to $1,500, plus media outreach assistance) to hold a Lights On Afterschool event on October 18, 2012, to announce the award. Additionally, awardees and other notable nominees will be recognized in nationally released issue briefs and the alliance's Afterschool in Action Compendium.

Visit the Afterschool Alliance Web site for complete program guidelines

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

Clinton Global Initiative announces new commitments

[from Philanthropy News Digest] At the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting atGeorge Washington University this past weekend, former President Clinton announced over nine hundred new projects that students and universities will undertake to improve the world.

New commitments announced at the two-day meeting include an expansion of Code the Change, a project of Stanford University student Sam King that hosts Code Jams in which computer science students provide up to twenty-four hours of pro bono volunteer services for nonprofit projects; the development, by Duke University student Patrick Oathout, of Uhuru, an online operating module that uses crowdsourcing technology to increase access to information among the international refugee community; the creation of Teach for Africa, a program byHarvard University student and Kenyan native Peggy Mativo that will provide trained teaching assistants to underserved schools in Nairobi, Kenya; and training workshops taught by Princeton University students Amanda Rees and Corinne Stephenson on how to build and operate solar drying units, enabling Kenyan farmers to dehydrate and preserve otherwise perishable produce.

Sponsored by the Victor Pinchuk and Peter G. Peterson foundations, as well as Microsoft, Laureate International Universities, Andy Nahas, Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Peter Kovler, the Prospect Fund, and Booz Allen Hamilton, CGI U 2012 convened more than one thousand students representing all fifty states, eighty-two countries, and over three hundred universities around a wide range of topics, from the global economic crisis and its impact on young people to the youth movement for global health. The second day of the event concluded with a day of service held in partnership with Rebuilding Together and the United Service Organizations.

To view a complete list of commitments made at this year's meeting, visit the Clinton Global Initiative University Web site. “President Clinton Hosted the Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative University Meeting at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.” Clinton Global Initiative University Press Release 3/31/12.

Emerging Latino Leaders Scholarship Program

The Best Buy Children’s Foundation and NCLR are proud to launch the sixth NCLR–Best Buy Emerging Latino Leaders Scholarship Program, which will award $25,000 in scholarships to graduating Hispanic high school seniors throughout the United States. 

Starting next week, online applications will be made available here.  The deadline for submission is Friday, April 27, 2012, and the winners will be announced in May 2012.  

Blended Learning Technology initiative

Education Elements in Palo Alto, California, has announced commitments totaling $6 million to expand its blended learning technology services to meet the growing demand for such services from schools nationwide.

The funding — which includes support from Harmony Partners, Rethink Education, and Eff Martin of Anthos Capital, as well as longtime Education Elements contributors Tugboat Ventures, NewSchools Venture Fund, and Wally Hawley, founder of the venture capital firm InterWest Partners — will enable the organization to expand its education consultant and support teams, strengthen its content and technology partnerships, enhance its technology platform, and open an office in Washington, D.C.

Since 2010, Education Elements has worked with schools, educational networks, and districts to adopt blended learning. To that end, it offers a comprehensive suite of design services and an SAAS-based Hybrid Learning Management System (HLMS) that allows institutions to personalize student learning and focus on small-group instruction. Over the next two years, the organization plans to grow its network of forty schools to more than two hundred. Among other things, it will use the new funding to develop additional HLMS features that support schools' blended learning approaches, as well as tools that enhance students' ownership of their own learning.

"We are gratified by the continued support from the investment community in helping Education Elements and its partner schools realize the potential of blended learning for teachers and students," said Education Elements CEO Anthony Kim. "Given the unprecedented student achievement and teacher satisfaction that our first schools have experienced, demand for our products and services has far exceeded our expectations this past year, and we look forward to continuing to ensure that schools and teachers have the support they need to accelerate student learning by integrating novel approaches to technology into their everyday instruction."

“Education Elements Raises $6 Million to Continue Helping Schools Transition to Blended Learning.” Education Elements Press Release 

AT&T to invest in programs focused on graduation rates

AT&T has announced a five-year, $250 million commitment to boost high school graduation rates nationwide.

Building on the success of AT&T Aspire, which has invested more than $100 million in educational initiatives since 2008, the commitment will focus on improving high school success and college and career readiness through an approach that uses technology to engage at-risk students. As part of the effort, AT&T Aspire will collaborate with innovators, educators, and other companies at AT&T Foundry innovation centers to develop cutting-edge solutions to educational obstacles; expand strategic alliances with organizations that specialize in developing and marketing new interactive learning tools; incorporate interactive "gamification" and social media tools into educational programs; and enable students in underserved communities to explore careers before graduation through internships in areas related to twenty-first century skills. AT&T also will collaborate on a nationwide initiative with GameDesk to transform traditional instruction and equalize education for all students.

Later this year, the telecommunications giant plans to launch the Aspire Mentoring Academy, which will enable AT&T employees to help students at risk of dropping out to succeed in school and life. Building on the success of its Job Shadow initiative with Junior Achievement, the company will create a program in which employee-student teams learn work/life skills, explore real business problems, and form lasting relationships. The company also will work to encourage more of its customers, partners, and other stakeholders to join the campaign; increase its financial commitment to local education-focused groups, especially those that embrace social innovation, focus on twenty-first century skills, or provide training in STEM fields for students in underserved communities; and support community organizations that specialize in helping students and improving the quality of education.

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Dropout recovery grant

[from Philanthropy News Digest] The Gateway to College National Network has funds available for partnerships between colleges and K-12 school districts to implement the Gateway to College dropout recovery program.

Gateway to College is a nationally recognized dual credit program that serves youth who have dropped out of school or are significantly behind in credits and unlikely to graduate. GtC classes are taught on the college campus. Students begin with the Foundation Experience, a learning community where students take developmental reading, writing, and math. After completing the Foundation Experience, students transition to regular college classes where they continue working toward their high school diploma and, simultaneously, an associate's degree.

In the fall of 2012, GtCNN will select up to ten college/K-12 partnerships for multi-year contracts worth between $325,000 and $440,000. In addition to start-up funds, successful applicants will receive training, technical assistance, professional development opportunities, and program evaluation-from the initial year of planning and training through program implementation, and for as long as the program remains a member of the network, which currently includes programs at thirty-five colleges in twenty states.

Successful applicants for start-up funds will be able to demonstrate flexible systems that allow students to earn a high school diploma (either through the college or in cooperation with a K-12 partner) and provide access to public K-12 education funds for high school completion; strong partnerships between the college and the local school district(s) involved in program implementation; the desire to embrace the Gateway to College academic approach and student support strategies at every level throughout the college; and compatibility of the Gateway to College model with the mission and vision of the college and school district, in order to support the required commitment to working with dropout youth.

Visit the Gateway to College Web site for complete program guidelines and application procedures.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP