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Learning in the Arts Grants (Deadline: June 10 )
Submitted by NationalService... on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 17:43
The Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth category offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire knowledge and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. Learning in the Arts projects may take place in school-based or community-based settings and should focus on children and youth in the general age range of 5 through 18 years. After-school and summer programs are eligible, as are public and private nonprofits. Maximum grants are $150,000 each
www.arts.gov/grants/apply/GAP11/LITA.html
Developing an Arts Program at the Reichert House Youth Academy
It has been a desire of the Staff at the Reichert House Youth Academy to have adequate funding to enable us to provide training in music, drama, drawing, and other art forms to the youth enrolled at the Reichert House. In the past, we have tried to develop a boys' choir similar to the Tallahassee Boy's Choir or the Harlem Boys' Choir. However, we realize that we lack the professional training to bring our youth up to that level. All our funding is currently being used to sustain the necessary elements of our program--academic tutoring, anger management and other counseling, food for a hot meal daily, transportation from school to our facility and back home each day, staff salaries, utilities, etc. We need to find a grant that would give us the funding necessary to help us locate a professional that would be able to come and work with our youth to develop their art skills. We have an adequate facility to meet in and we have some of the equipment necessary to use with a choir. We just need someone that loves youth and that could see their potential to help the youth develop their natural talents. I am interested in learning more about the 'Learning in the Arts Grants' to see if it would be a good fit for our group. Reichert House has been serving at-risk youth for over 20 years. We grow each year and currently have 120 youth enrolled. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our program and offer more opportunities for these youth to expand their knowledge and participate in all sorts of wholesome activities that might otherwise not be available in their lives.
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