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Meet the Mentoring
Challenge
Child Trends, a nonprofit research center, outlines critical steps that youth-serving
program providers should consider when recruiting mentors and recommends resources
that can be used in the process in its latest news brief, Recruiting
Mentors in Out-of-School Time Programs: What's Involved?
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New Guidebook Suggests Ways to Improve
Your Youth Organization
Chapin Hall Center for Children at the
University of Chicago has recently published
A Self-Study Guide
for Managers and Staff of Primary Support
Programs for Young People, which offers
four key components of effective youth
agencies with techniques for implementation. Download
the Guidebook.
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Red, White, and Green Grants
Youth Service America and the Civil Society
Institute announce the second round of
the Red, White, & Green Climate Change
Grant. This opportunity offers $500 to
young people in the United States between
the ages of fifteen to twenty-five and
to organizations that engage youth ages
fifteen to twenty-five.
Applicants are expected to develop and
implement a service-learning project about
climate change that engages their community,
policy-makers, and candidates running for
election in 2007 and 2008. We welcome projects
where youth work in partnership with adults
(parents, coaches, teachers, youth leaders,
etc.): but the projects should be youth-led,
and must take place between May 1 and October
31, 2007.
Applicants need to download application
materials at www.YSA.org/awards.
BOTH the Introduction & Requirements
document (.pdf format) and the Application & Guidelines
document (word format) are required to
submit a competitive application.
For more information, send an e-mail to redwhiteandgreen@ysa.org. Application
deadline: March 9, 2007, 5p.m. EST.
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