Youth Grants for Excellence Now Available

The online application forms for the Youth Grants for Excellence became live on Wednesday morning.  Go here to learn about criteria, due dates, and eligibility.  At the bottom of that page are links to the online application short form and long form.  Applications are due on September 28, 2011.  One of the changes this year is we no longer offer a print version of the applications.  You are still welcome to write your application in Word, or another word processing program, and email it to me.  Please be sure to include all the categories that are listed in the online form. Another change is the budget and budget spreadsheet.  This year we once again are asking the local contribution be at least 25% of the total project cost.  The new budget spreadsheet will help with that. Just an FYI to those applying: two of the questions most often asked at the review team meeting is, “what is the benefit to the children or teens?” and “how do they plan to use [this item] they want to buy?”  Please give us the details!