The Corporation for National and Community Service announces the availability of approximately $2 million of Learn and Serve America funds to implement and support School-Based service-learning programs that address outcomes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in FY 2008.
This competition is devoted to expanding high-quality service-learning in K-12 schools with large enrollments of disadvantaged youth for the purpose of promoting the use of service-learning to address STEM objectives.
Learn and Serve School-Based grants in this competition provide funds to Grant Making Entities, which must make subgrants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) that are in partnership with at least one additional organization. LEA partners may include private schools, for-profit businesses, other nonprofits, and institutions of higher education