Deadline: September 14, 2009
Awards: $650,000 total funding with maximum award of $65,000 per project
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is pleased to announce our 2010 National Grant competition. The Foundation’s grant-making program seeks to develop or expand projects designed to support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children. A total of approximately $650,000 will be awarded; no grant request should exceed $65,000.
In order to be considered eligible for a grant, an organization must meet the following criteria:
- The organization must have current nonprofit or public status and have been in existence for two or more years as of the date of the application
- The organization must have maintained fiscal accountability
- The organization must operate an instructional literacy program that has been in existence for at least 2 years and includes one or more of the following components:
a) literacy for adults;
b) parent education;
c) pre-literacy or literacy instruction for children pre-k to grade 3;
d) intergenerational literacy activities (Parent and Child Together Time [(PACT]).
