Learn and Serve America Youth Engagement Zone FY11 | Apply Online

Opportunity Information: Apply for CNCS GRANTS 02102011

The Learn and Serve America Youth Engagement Zone initiative aims to boost student engagement, attendance, achievement, graduation rates, and college enrollment. The program focuses on two main goals:

1. Involving youth in service learning to illustrate how academic studies connect to civic engagement and personal growth. 2. Fostering connections among diverse community members to create more opportunities for service while enhancing local capacity to tackle significant challenges.

Eligible partnerships must consist of: - Community-based entities with a successful track record in service learning for economically disadvantaged students. - A local educational agency with over 70% free and reduced lunch eligibility and a graduation rate below 70%. - A community college linked to the local educational agency or youth-serving organizations. - An area where less than 30% of secondary students participate in service learning.

The program has approximately $5.7 million available for 5 to 7 grants, with each grant ranging from $700,000 to $1,500,000 per year for three years. Applications must be submitted through the Corporation for National Community Service website.

• The Corporation for National and Community Service in the community development education environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Learn and Serve America Youth Engagement Zone FY11" and is now available to receive applicants.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 10, 2011 and posted on Feb 10, 2011.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 31, 2011 The deadline for submission of applications is 500 p.m. Eastern Time on 03/31/2011 Applications must be submitted using eGrants, the Corporations integrated, secure, web based system for grant application and management. To create and submit an application via eGrants, please visit http://www.learnandserve.gov/egrants.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2025.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $5,700,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,600,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) City or township governments Private institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education County governments Public and State controlled institutions of higher education State governments.
• Eligible partnerships may apply for a Youth Engagement Zone grant. The lead applicant for this YEZ competition must be a public or private non profit organization e.g., a faith based or community based organization, a local educational agency (or individual public secondary school), an institution of higher education, or an Indian tribe. In addition, the lead applicant of the partnership must be physically located in the designated zone and have the organizational capacity to manage the grant. Eligible partnerships must include the following components these factors will be used to determine eligibility for funding for this competition. (See Section VI regarding submission requirements. You are not required to submit partnership agreements or memoranda of understanding at the time of application, but you may be asked to provide them as part of the review and selection process.) 1. One or more community based entities with demonstrated records of success in service learning programs with economically disadvantaged students. (For the purpose of this competition, a community based entity is a public or private nonprofit organization that has experience with meeting unmet educational, environmental or public safety needs.) 2. A local educational agency (LEA) serving a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students (a free and reduced price lunch eligibility rate of 70 or more) and where the graduation rate is less than 70. 3. a community college with existing connections to the LEA and/or youth serving organizations and 4. a geographic area where less than 30 of the secondary school students are already engaged in service learning.

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