Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

Posted by on July 27, 2009

Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Accepting Applications for National Grant Program
Deadline: September 14, 2009

The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is accepting applications for its 2010 National Grant competition.

The foundation’s grantmaking program seeks to develop or expand projects designed to develop the literacy skills of adult primary care givers and their children.

The applicant organization must have nonprofit or public status and must have been in existence for two or more years. The organization must operate an instructional literacy program that has been in existence for at least two years and includes one or more of the following components: literacy for adults, parent education, pre-literacy or literacy instruction for children pre-K to grade three, and/or intergenerational literacy activities (parent and child together time).

A total of approximately $650,000 will be awarded; no grant request should exceed $65,000.

The 2010 National Grant Program application and guidelines are available at the foundation’s Web site.

Contact: http://www.barbarabushfoundation.com/site/c.jhLSK2PALmF/b.4344681/k.66AC/National_Grant_Program.htm


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