Small Grants

From 1998-2009, the Civic Education Consortium received support from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to distribute grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 to support innovative, collaborative civic education projects that prepare North Carolina’s youth for active, responsible citizenship. The program awarded over $607,000 to 101 outstanding projects in 84 of North Carolina’s counties.

The Consortium is especially interested in funding programs that:

• Enable teachers/adult leaders to apply classroom civics lessons in the community
• Involve youth directly in government programs, processes, and/or services
• Incorporate service-learning into the curriculum, teaching young people about community involvement and/or public policy issues
• Help teachers/adult leaders learn and implement best practices in civic education Best practices include: service-learning, current events discussions, and simulations
• Encourage young people to value democracy and exercise both rights and responsibilities of citizenship
• Provide citizenship development opportunities for lower-income youth
• Involve participants who are diverse in background, age, achievement level, income, race, ethnicity, or religion

The Consortium is not currently accepting small grants applications.  Information regarding the next round of available awards will be posted here in 2010. 

For questions about the Small Grants Program, contact Christie Hinson.

To read about the 2009 awardees, click here.