Posted on January 24, 2003	print  e-mail
Deadline: Open

Southern Poverty Law Center Offers Youth Grants to Promote Tolerance

Tolerance.org and Teaching Tolerance, educational programs of the Southern Poverty Law Center, have joined with the Study Circles Resource Center to offer the national "Mix It Up" youth campaign. The "Mix it Up" campaign is designed to help young people understand and address the issue of social boundaries in their schools and communities.

The Mix It Up Grants Program funds youth-directed activist projects that focus on identifying, questioning, and crossing social boundaries in schools and communities.

Grants are limited to $500. The program gives priority to applications that clearly show: 1) Youth leadership, i.e., projects envisioned by and to be implemented by youth activists; 2) Collaborative efforts across social boundaries, i.e., different youth groups or clubs working together, or school-based clubs working with community-based organizations; and 3) The project is part of continuing efforts to identify, cross, or challenge social boundaries, i.e., the funded project isn't "the end" of the effort.

See the Mix It Up Web site for complete grant application guidelines and for further information on the program's other components.

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Link to Complete RFP

Primary Subject: Children and Youth
Secondary Subject(s): Community Improvement/Development
Geographic Funding Area: National

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