Grants Available to Host Emerging Leaders
emerging leaders grants
The National Service-Learning Partnership at the Academy for Educational Development and the National Youth Leadership Council are accepting applications for the Service-Learning Emerging Leaders Initiative.
Fourteen to 20 local, state, tribal, regional, and national organizations and public-sector agencies will be selected to host emerging leaders, ages 25 to 35, who have demonstrated a commitment to making a difference in the lives of young people, schools, and communities. Through this initiative, the emerging leaders will be employed by the host organization for a period of two years — building organizational capacity and a new generation of diverse service-learning leadership.
Emerging leaders and their host organizations will make meaningful contributions to advancing the service-learning field at the local, state, and national levels — tackling issues of nonprofit leadership and engaging culturally diverse people and communities.
Emerging leaders are given significant leadership roles and meaningful opportunities to develop substantive portfolios of work in one or more of the following areas:
- Practice and Professional Development
- Policy Advocacy
- Research
- Constituency-Building
- Communications and Visibility
Each host organization receives a grant of up to $25,000 per year to subsidize a portion of an emerging leader's salary. Emerging leaders must be employed full-time making a minimum of $35,000 with full health and dental benefits. Emerging leaders receive in-person and online professional development and mentoring. They will also engage in individual leadership planning and be offered publication and presentation opportunities.
Organizations can propose an emerging leader already on staff or can propose to recruit and hire a new employee. Applications must be received no later than December 8, 2006.
A technical assistance call for prospective host organizations will be held on November 16, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. EST. To reserve a space, email nslp@aed.org by November 14.
