Summer of Service for Middle-School Aged Youth

The summary for the Summer of Service for Middle-School Aged Youth grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Summer of Service for Middle-School Aged Youth: 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.