In order to be eligible to receive a grant from the State Farm Youth Advisory Board, organizations/institutions must be located in the United States or Canada. Applicants should be either an educator who currently teaches in a public K-12, charter, or higher education institution, or a school-based service-learning coordinator whose primary role is to coordinate service-learning projects in a public, charter, or higher education institution. Non-profit organizations are also eligible if they are able to demonstrate how they plan to actively interact with students in public K-12 schools.
Non-Profit Applicants must also have 501(c)3 federal tax status and a demonstrated capacity to effectively manage grant funds. Schools must have a tax id number. Organizations may also serve as the site’s designated lead partner with primary responsibility for program implementation.
Mandatory Requirements
RFP must incorporate service-learning.
RFP must include promotion of State Farm and the State Farm Youth Advisory Board through ways of public and media outreach.
Expectations
By giving grants at a minimum amount of $25,000 per year and a maximum amount of $100,000 per year, the State Farm Youth Advisory Board expects grantees to develop and carry-out their proposals with a structural approach. By “structural” we mean that the issue is addressed at the root cause to achieve lasting change. Each grantee site should create the power and leverage, likely through the leverage of key partners, needed to impact systemic change throughout the surrounding area. Ideally, the funded approach should be replicable in surrounding communities.
Propelling innovation and change involving students, service-learning practice, and school and community institutions is admittedly ambitious, but we believe it is achievable and not unprecedented.
Increasing student participation is good for young people as well as our schools, communities, and countries. Through well-structured ways to serve and lead alongside adults or to create innovative solutions to public problems, young people will learn civic skills and enhance their sense of connection to larger purposes.
