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Project Learning Tree - GreenWorks! Grants -- GreenWorks! Grants administered by the Project Learning Tree support projects that allow students and local community members to learn-by-doing environmental projects. The focus is to create projects that allow for schools and youth to make a positive impact on their communities.Selected applicants will receive between $250 and $5,000 to conduct community environmental projects. These projects must be planned and implemented by youth, integrate…See More

PROGRAM: Early Childhood Reading GrantPURPOSE OF PROGRAM: Foster a love of reading; encourage young children and their families to read together. “Reading is an essential element in a child’s educational process. Reading grants are awarded to schools, libraries and nonprofit organizations, supporting programs such as library story times and family reading nights, weekend book clubs and after-school reading programs that foster a love of reading and encourage children, from birth through age 9,…See More

Dear Afterschool Advocates,This is a reminder to please call your U.S. Representative TODAY and urge them to sign the Castle/Kildee Dear Colleague letter currently in circulation. Thus far, the following Members have signed: Castle, Cleaver, Ehlers, Grijalva, Hodes, Kildee, Loebsack, McNerney, Brad Miller, Pomeroy, Sablan, Stark, Titus and Wu. The Dear Colleague letter was generated in anticipation of upcoming budget deliberations and will be sent to the House Appropriations Committee…See More