Summer of Service for Middle-School Aged Youth

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	Federal Grant Title:	Summer of Service for Middle-School Aged Youth
	CFDA Number:	94.007
	CFDA Description:	Planning and Program Development Grants
	Federal Agency Name:	Corporation for National and Community Service
	Category of Funding Activity:	Regional Development Disaster Prevention and Relief Education Environment Health Community Development Arts
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	CNCS-GRANTS-082907-001
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Aug 29, 2007
	Creation Date:	Oct 10, 2007
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Oct 10, 2007 Please submit an email stating your intent to apply to summerofservice@cns.gov by September 19 by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This is not required, but helps us plan the review of the applications. This Notice, with the complete application instructions and other relevant material, is available on the Corporations website at http://www.nationalservice.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa.asp or by e-mailing summerofservice@cns.gov. The deadline for applications is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 10, 2007. Applications submitted by e-mail or fax will not be accepted. Applications are to be submitted electronically using eGrants, the Corporations integrated, secure, web-based system for applications. You may access eGrants at http://www.nationalservice.gov/egrants/index.html. If you cannot submit an application electronically due to technical difficulties or limitations, submit a paper application, together with an electronic version of the application on a CD Rom postmarked by the October 10, 2007 to facilitate data entry into the eGrants system, to the following address: Corporation for National and Community Service, 1201 New York Avenue, N.W., Box Summer of Service, Washington, D.C., 20525.
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Oct 18, 2007
	Expected Number of Awards:	6
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$900,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$200,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$100,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants include national, state, and multi-state organizations. The Corporation wants to ensure that all eligible organizations are able to compete on an equal basis for federal financial assistance. Eligible applicants include national, state, and multi-state organizations that create new or expanded service-learning opportunities in the summer programming of youth-serving organizations that serve large numbers of youth from disadvantaged circumstances at multiple sties. We encourage applications from organizations not currently receiving Corporation funding as well as from organizations that are now receiving Corporation funds, including AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and Senior Corps. We encourage submissions from organizations with little or no experience with federal grants, where our investment could dramatically improve volunteer management capacity and infrastructure. We encourage applicants to apply that have not received Corporation funding in the past. Eligible faith-based and other community-based organizations are encouraged to apply. Organizations that currently operate a Corporation-funded program or are applying for other Corporation funding are eligible applicants. However, applicants must differentiate between this grants proposed activities and those of the currently-funded program or pending application.
Grant Description: The Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation) announces the availability of up to $900,000 for grants to support summer of service activities. Summer of service activities are defined as high quality, supervised, volunteer activities in multiple locations during the summer (out-of-school) months. The participants will be middle school youth (typically 10 to 14 years old) from disadvantaged circumstances in urban and rural areas. The purpose of this competition is to stimulate new or expanded service-learning opportunities in the summer programming of youth-serving organizations that already serve large numbers of youth from disadvantaged circumstances at multiple sites. Service learning opportunities are designed so that the youth meet unmet needs in their communities. Eligible applicants include national, state, or multi-state organizations. The successful applicant must be experienced in working with and planning activities for middle-school age youth. The applicant must demonstrate: (1) ability to engage large numbers of youth in the program; (2) ability to provide youth from disadvantaged circumstances with meaningful service-learning opportunities within their communities; (3) experience working with youth from disadvantaged circumstances in out-of-school settings; (4) ability to serve youth in the geographic location for which the program is designed, and; (5) ability to apply the principals of service-learning (http://www.servicelearning.org). Applicants must demonstrate how the program design aligns with standards set by local school boards for such programs. Grants may range in size from approximately $100,000 to $200,000. The Corporation will make approximately 6 awards covering a period not to exceed one year inclusive of May-August 2008. Youth participating will be expected to:. Perform a minimum of 50 hours of volunteer project planning, implementation, and reflection with an adult or older persons supervision, over a 2 to 8 week period between May and August, 2008. Address unmet needs in the communities in which they live through high-quality, supervised, volunteer activities based on a service-learning model that engages participants in structured, hands-on projects while helping participants develop personal, civic, and/or academic skills . Receive the Presidents Volunteer Service Award in recognition of their volunteer serviceThe successful applicant will be expected to:. Engage youth in identifying, developing and reflecting on the service activities; (more information on service learning models is available at http://www.servicelearning.org . Design structured hands-on, team-based projects. Implement these projects in a way that creates awareness of and excitement for the power of youth to contribute in meaningful way to the communities in which they live.Preference may be given to applications that (a) serve larger numbers of youth; (b) include a mentoring component that connects service to a sustained mentoring relationship; (b) include youth who are homeless or in foster care as participants; (c) engage the same group of youth in volunteer activity beyond the summer months; (d) demonstrate the ability to collaborate with existing youth-serving organizations in planning and implementing their proposed activities, including coordinating effective communication and participation among all partners.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: To access the full announcement, application instructions and other helpful documents, please go to the Corporation for National and Community Service's website at the fo
http://www.cns.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=51
Grant Announcement Contact: Theresa Clower
Sr. Advisor & Exec. Dir Federal Mentoring Council
Phone 202-606-7505 Summerofservice@cns.gov Official email box for this competition and phone number for the Summer of Service Competition.
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