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INTERAGENCY COORDINATING GROUP
FOR ADULT LITERACY |
Funding Database: Search Result
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| Agency/Office |
Corporation for National and Community Service |
| Program Name |
Learn and Serve America - School Based, Community Based, and Higher Education |
| CFDA Number |
94.004 |
| Program Description |
Learn and Serve America provides direct and indirect support to K-12 schools, community groups and higher education institutions to facilitate service-learning projects. By integrating community service projects with classroom curriculum, service-learning projects offer students a unique opportunity to use what they learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems. In the process, they develop academic and practical skills, self-esteem, and a sense of civic responsibility while meeting community needs. |
| Eligible Grantees |
Eligible entities include State Commissions for National and Community Service, State Education Agencies, institutions of higher education, Indian tribes and U.S. Territories, faith based and other non profit organizations. Funding is intended to support the implementation of service learning projects and to create long time support structures for service learning. |
| Eligible Beneficiaries |
States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Tribes, Territories, schools, school districts, institutions of higher education, community based organizations. |
| Historic Appropriation Level (in 000s) |
$37,125 |
| Eligible Activities |
Service learning activities address a variety of education, environmental, human, and public safety needs while increasing academic achievement and the habits of good citizenship. Activities may include, but are not limited to, teaching younger children to read or creating tutoring programs for adults with limited English-language skills as part of a Language Arts class project; developing urban community gardens or preserving native plants as part of the biology and history curriculum; starting school recycling programs or testing water quality as part of the math, science and social studies curriculum. |
| Program Contact |
Amy Cohen, Director
202-606-6927
acohen@cns.gov |
| Program URL |
http://www.nationalservice.gov |
Last Modified: 01/29/2007
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