The applications for YALSA’s 2017 Summer Learning Resources and Teen Summer Intern grants is now open.
Through generous funding from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, two grants are available: the Summer Learning Resources Grant and the Teen Summer Intern Program Grant. The purpose of the grants is to help libraries combat the summer slide, as described in YALSA’s position paper, “Adopting a Summer Learning Approach to Increase Impact.”
Twenty summer learning resources grants, worth $1,000 each, will be awarded to libraries in need and will allow them to provide resources and services to teens who are English language learners, struggling in school and/or who are from socio-economically challenged communities. Twenty teen summer intern program grants, also worth $1,000 each, will be awarded to libraries to support the implementation of summer learning programs while also providing teens a chance to build hands-on job skills.
Interested applicants are invited to apply for the grants if they meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Must be a YALSA member at the time the application is submitted and when recipients are selected (not a member? Join here)
- Summer learning program must be administered through a library
- Summer learning program must be open to all teens in the community
- Library must be within 20 miles of a Dollar General store
Eligible applicants can apply now through Jan. 1, 2017. Recipients will be notified during the week of Feb. 13, 2017. For information about joining YALSA, visit www.ala.org/yalsa/join. YALSA/ALA membership starts at $61 per year.
To learn more about the grants and to apply, please visit YALSA’s Summer Learning website. To learn more about how the grants support summer learning programs, view a brief video featuring past grantees.
