The Corporation for National and Community ServiceProgram:Learn and Serve America anticipates availability of approximately $650,000 to award approximately 3 to 4 new grants of approximately $70,000 to $250,000 for 1 to 3 year programs. Deadline is March 3, 2011

Through school-based grants, they will fund service-learning programs to improve academic achievement and increase civic and academic engagement for children and youth. These service-learning programs aim to accelerate education for students, while helping youth to confront local challenges and make their communities vibrant places to live.

Those School-Based Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories who receive a grant will be able to: enhance and/or expand effective service-learning programs already underway; or develop new service-learning programs in tribal communities or areas within the U.S. Territories.

Eligible applicants include any federally-recognized Indian Tribe or “State Educational Agencies” for the following U.S. Territories – Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Applicants may propose to directly operate service-learning programs, in partnership with local K-12 school(s), that meet the statutory definition of service-learning, or propose to award subgrants to local educational agencies or local K-12 school(s) which in turn implement service-learning programs that meet the statutory definition of service-learning.