School Age Information

Celebrating After School In Catawba County
Karen S. Darby
Regional School Age Specialist

     After School and Summer Care is an important aspect in the lives of our children.  Where do the children go once the school day ends?  That is a question that most people do not consider until their child needs somewhere to go after the final bell rings or a place to go during the long summer days. 
    
     The world of after school is unique and exciting!  It takes a dedicated, hard working and energetic staff to work with 5-12 year old children.  Many after school sites operate independently and only serve school age children or many full-day child care centers may offer before and after school care as well.  The YMCA’s offer before and after school care and so do Communities in Schools at all of the Elementary Schools in Catawba County.  There are also programs that only operate during the summer months as a summer camp. 

Here is a list of sites that serve school age children.  This listing is a continual work in progress.  If you are a site that serves school age children and would like to be added to this list, please contact the Children’s Resource Center. 

School age Links:
Division of Child Development:  www.nchildcare.net
National Afterschool Association:  www.naa.org
NC After School Coalition:  www.ncasc.org
Afterschool Alliance:  www.afterschoolalliance.org
AfterSchool Now:  www.afterschoolnow.org
National Institute for Out of School Time: www.niost.org
www.afterschool.gov
North Carolina Center for After School Programs:  www.nccap.net
www.ikeepsafe.org
www.scholastic.com
www.ed.gov/21stcclc/
www.4hafterschool.org
www.afterschoolallstars.org
www.pearweb.org/research/rural.html
www.fightcrime.org
www.forumforyouthinvestment.org
www.foundationsinc.org
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/evaldatabase.html
www.foodbankcenc.org/programs/kidscafe/index.asp
www.mentoring.org/afterschool/
www.NAAweb.org
http://www.nc4h.org/sacc
http://www.ncchild.org/data.htm#1
http://www.ncpublicschools.org
http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org
http://www.postcarolinas.org
www.frac.org/Out_Of_School_Time/Afterschool/back_schoolres.html
www.youthlearn.org/afterschool
The Afterschool Corporation: www.tascorp.org
www.gse.harvard.edu/~hfrp/
www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/fieldtrip.html

Grant: Champions for Healthy Kids
Deadline: January 15, 2010
Ages Served: Any
Maximum Award: Fifty grants of $10,000 each
Sponsoring Organization: The General Mills Foundation
URL: http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/champions.aspx
The General Mills Foundation, in partnership with the American Dietetic Association Foundation and the President's Council on Physical Fitness, developed the Champions for Healthy Kids grant program in 2002. Each year since inception, the General Mills Foundation awards 50 grants of $10,000 each to community-based groups that develop creative ways to help youth adopt a balanced diet and physically active lifestyle.

Grant: Business Leader Summits on Early Childhood Investment - To share information about the importance of early childhood investments and how they help develop future employees who will be competitive in the 21st Century workplace; provide opportunities for business leaders to connect with peers who share their commitment to the future; and engage business leaders to advocate for additional investments in proven strategies that encourage the successful development of young children.
Funder: Scholastic, and members of the Partnership for America's Economic Success.
Eligibility: Businesses and community organizations.
Deadline: Jan. 16, 2009.
Amount: Up to $10,000 to each of 15 states.
Contact: Grace Lee, associate, Partnership for America's Economic Success,
glee@pewtrusts.org, (202) 552-2163; Sara Watson, director, Partnership for America's
Economic Success, swatson@pewtrusts.org, (202) 552-2134; www.partnershipforsuccess.org/docs/RFP_StateSummits20081120.pdf.

Arts

Grant: Key Change - For young people who have an idea or existing project that uses music to make a difference.
Funder: DoSomething.org and the GRAMMY Foundation.
Eligibility: Individuals who are 19 years old or younger.
Deadline: Dec. 15.
Amount: Five grand-prize winners receive a $3,000 community action grant; 20 first-prize winners receive $500.
Contact: www.dosomething.org/grants.

Grant: Arts Connect All - To encourage arts organizations to create or enhance multi-session inclusive education programs for youth with disabilities by strengthening partnerships with local public schools.
Funder: VSA arts and MetLife Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofit performing and/or exhibiting arts organizations - such as museums, theaters and multidisciplinary arts presenters - that are creating or have an established educational program.
Deadline: Dec. 12.
Amount:  Ten awards of up to $15,000 each.
Contact: www.vsarts.org/x273.xml.

Grant: NAMM Foundation Grants - Music education and research grants are available through programs that include the Disney Music in You Grant Program; Sounds of Learning: The Impact of Music Education; and Sounds of Living: The Impact of Music Across the Life Span.
Funder: NAMM Foundation.
Eligibility: Public middle and high schools, and music education and research programs.
Deadline: Disney Music in You - Dec. 15; all others, Dec. 1.
Amount: Grants average $20,000 to $40,000.
Contact: www.music-research.org/Grants/guidelines.html.

Grant: Media That Matters - A showcase for short films with big messages, including youth-produced projects.
Funder: Art Engine.
Eligibility: Individual filmmakers and community/youth media centers.
Deadline: Jan. 9, 2009.
Amount: $1,000 per film.
Contact: www.mediathatmattersfest.org/submit.

Civic Engagement
*Grant: Project Orange Thumb - For community gardening projects.
Funder: Fiskars.
Eligibility: Community garden groups, schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs and treatment facilities.
Deadline: Feb. 17, 2009.
Amount: Each winner will receive up to $1,500 in Fiskars' garden tools and up to $800 in gardening-related materials.
Contact: http://projectorangethumb.com/pot.

Grant: Environmental Education Grants - For environmental education projects that promote environmental stewardship and that develop knowledgeable and responsible students, teachers and citizens.
Funder: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Eligibility: Any local education agency, college or university, state education or environmental agency, nonprofit or noncommercial educational broadcasting entity.
Deadline: Dec. 18.
Amount: $3 million for as many as 95 grants.
Contact: www.epa.gov/enviroed/pdf/solicitationnotice2009.pdf.

Grant: To promote understanding of environmental issues among youth.
Funder: Captain Planet Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Dec. 31.
Amount: $250 to $2,500.
Contact: www.captainplanetfoundation.org/default.aspx?pid=3&tab=apply.

Grant: We the People Challenge Grants in U.S. History, Institutions and Culture - To support humanities activities that examine American history through the lens of the nation's founding principles.
Funder: U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities.
Eligibility: States, special district and tribal governments, institutions of higher education and other nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 3, 2009.
Amount: Up to $1 million.
Contact: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/wtpchallenge.html#awardinfo.

*Grant: Champions for Healthy Kids - For creative ways to help youth adopt a balanced diet and physically active lifestyle.
Funder: General Mills Foundation and the President's Council on Physical Fitness.
Eligibility: Community-based groups.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2009.
Amount: Fifty grants of $10,000 each.
Contact: www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/champions.aspx.

Grant: UnitedHealth HEROES - For youth-led community education projects about obesity prevention and health in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee, and in specific parts of Florida, Illinois and New York.
Funder: UnitedHealth.
Eligibility: Teachers, service-learning coordinators and youths.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2009.
Amount: $1,000 each.
Contact: http://servenet.org/Toolkit/ContentManagement/ServiceWireNews/tabid/122/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/805/Default.aspx.

Grant: For human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training and research.
Funder: Allen Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Dec. 31.
Amount: Ranges from $2,000 to around $75,000.
Contact: www.allenfoundation.org/commoninfo/aboutus.asp.

Life Skills
Grant: Big Read - To revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to bring literature into the lives of U.S. citizens.
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Eligibility: Nonprofits. Applicants that are not libraries must partner with one and choose one of the 27 available book titles or one of the three available poets for their Big Read programming.
Deadline: Feb. 3, 2009.
Amount: $2,500 to $20,000.
Contact: www.neabigread.org/guidelines.php.

Grant: YouthBuild - To provide opportunities for disadvantaged youth in education, employment and community engagement.
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2009.
Amount: $47 million for three-year grants of $700,000 to $1.1 million.
Contact: www.doleta.gov/grants/find_grants.cfm#youthbuild.

Recreation
Grant: Stonyfield KaBOOM! Double Play - To fund a volunteer project to build or improve a playground, skate park, basketball court, sports field or similar play space.
Funder: Stonyfield Farm.
Eligibility: Schools and youth organizations.
Deadline: Dec. 31.
Amount: One $50,000 grant.
Contact: www.stonyfield.com/kaboom/rules.cfm.

Grant: NFL Youth Football Fund Grassroots Program - For upgrading existing facilities that are in poor condition or otherwise underutilized; partnerships with parks, recreational departments and YMCAs that promote youth and community programming are encouraged, among other types of projects.
Funder: National Football League Youth Football Fund and Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Eligibility: Nonprofit community-based organizations.
Deadline: Dec. 15.
Amount: Up to $200,000 each.
Contact: www.lisc.org/docs/2008_nfl_grassroots_rfp.pdf.

*Grant: Youth Violence Prevention through Economic, Environmental and Policy Change - To assess policies and other interventions designed to change the economic or environmental characteristics of a community to reduce rates of youth violence perpetration and victimization.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 23, 2009.
Amount: Two awards averaging $500,000 each.
Contact: www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-009.htm.

Grant: Identifying Neighborhood-Level Protective and Promotive Factors for Youth Violence - To study how neighborhood and environmental factors reduce youth violence perpetration and victimization by promoting nonviolence or by buffering against known risk factors.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 17, 2009.
Amount: $700,000 for two awards of around $350,000 each.
Contact: www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-008.htm.

*Grant: Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Regional Training Centers - Five regional Training Centers promote the program by organizing, preparing for and conducting training programs, providing technical assistance to G.R.E.A.T. agencies within their region and disseminating G.R.E.A.T. information.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice.
Eligibility: State, local or tribal jurisdictions - and their respective law enforcement agencies - with an active G.R.E.A.T. program. For-profit organizations, nonprofits and institutions of higher education with experience may partner with a law enforcement agency with an active G.R.E.A.T. program.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2009.
Amount: Up to $282,331 to each of five centers.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=43349.

Youth Development

Grant: Developmental and Learning Sciences - Fundamental research that increases understanding of youths' cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural and biological processes related to development and learning. 
Funder: National Science Foundation.
Eligibility: Researchers may apply for individual investigator or workshops/small conference projects.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2009.
Amount: Up to $100,000 for investigators and $15,000 for workshops/small conference projects.
Contact: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671.

Grant: Community Action Grants - For innovative programs or non-degree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls. 
Funder: American Association of University Women.
Eligibility: Individuals, AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations and community-based nonprofits.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2009.
Amount: $5,000 to $10,000 each.
Contact: www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/community_action.cfm.