News Flash - Sodexo Fdn School Engagement Grants

Youth Service America Invites K-12 Educators to Apply for Sodexo Foundation School Engagement Grant. Application due July 15, 2012

Youth Service America and the Sodexo Foundation are accepting applications for the Sodexo Foundation School Engagement Grant initiative.

Programs funded through the grant will engage teachers and students, grades K-12, in a semester of service learning about childhood hunger in their community. The program framework is designed to engage students in a minimum of seventy hours of service and learning over a period of at least ten to fourteen weeks.

Successful grantees will attend YSA's Youth Service Institute in Houston, October 17-19, 2012 (travel and training fees are included in the grant); design a semester of service that uses YSA's research-supported IPARD/C service-learning model and launches during National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week (November 10-18, 2012) through Global Youth Service Day (April 26-28, 2013); involve students in either direct service-learning projects (e.g., students preparing food for hungry children), and/or indirect service-learning projects (e.g., students packing food boxes at their local food bank), and/or research and advocacy service-learning projects (e.g., students meeting with elected officials to urge support for additional food subsidies for low-income families); focus on school-required academic standards in at least one content area (the suggested areas for the program are civics, social studies, and language arts, although other content areas may also be proposed); commit to involve a minimum of twenty students engaged on a continual and regular basis in the semester of service; encourage student ownership and leadership at all stages of the service program; and establish partnership(s) between participating schools and local community-based organizations and/or resources addressing food insufficiency.

Grantees will receive a $5,000 grant award to support professional development in service-learning, project planning and implementation, and demonstration/sharing of outcomes; eligibility for recognition through the establishment of annual awards designed to further enhance both outreach and replicability of the program; and YSA training and resources.

Visit the YSA Web site for complete program guidelines, grantee requirements, and the application form.

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Link to Complete RFP

Primary Subject: Education
Secondary Subject(s): Community Improvement/Development, Children and Youth, Human Services, Elementary and Secondary Education
Geographic Funding Area: National

Posted June 20, 2012 via Foundation Center - PND

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