Does your community want to do something in honor of Jewish Youth Service Day, AKA J-Serve? Repair the World is willing to help! They’re currently offering micro-grants for education programming in connection with J-Serve 2013. I’m excited for the Southern communities I work with to take advantage of this, and it’s also applicable wherever you are:
The Micro-grants range from $500-$1,000, and you can download an application here. This is a great chance to develop a project to aid your local community, address the problems surrounding education inequality for students, and create a way to solve them.
Some examples could include:
- Starting a book drive and creating vocab flashcards
- Make simple math flashcards (basic arithmetic, multiplication, subtraction and division problems) and then create an event where you and volunteers use them with young people in after school programs
- Rally your friends and community to start a peer-to-peer mentoring program
- Work with a local school to create playground graphics on the blacktop to teach letters, numbers, colors, etc. to youth who attend that school
Your options are limitless! The grants will be awarded to creative programs that help address education challenges including but not limited to literacy rates, math deficiency, and lack of mentorship.
Applications will be accepted until February 28, 2013. If you’re submitting a project, let us know – we’d love to hear about it and cheer you on!
