Get Into It Grants to fight Childhood Obesity

Posted by on November 15, 2010

Get Into It Grants Available
(Deadline: January 19, 2011)

Special Olympics is partnering with Youth Service America to offer Get Into It grants that bring together students of all abilities to fight childhood obesity in their schools and communities. The Get Into It curriculum helps to develop a service-learning program that gives youth the opportunity to make a change.

The program awards grants of $500 or $1,000 to help youth create and implement local, hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity. The application must be completed by a teacher and a unified pair of students (one with and one without an intellectual disability).

Get Into It grant projects launch on Spread the Word to End the Word Day (March 2, 2011) and culminate on Global Youth Service Day (April 15-17, 2011). Each grant also engages participating youth in service-learning, an effective teaching and learning strategy that supports student learning, academic achievement and workplace readiness.

All 50 states and the District of Columbia are eligible to apply.  Applications must be submitted by midnight, January 19, 2011

Special Olympics will host two application training webinars, December 2, 2010 at 3:00 pm EST and January 4, 2011 at 5:00 pm EST, for applicants to learn more about developing a successful project. To register for either webinar fill out the form here.

To learn more about this opportunity, start using the resources offered, and view the online application, visit http://www.YSA.org/getintoit