| Grants of up to $25,000 are available to nonprofit groups that operate programs dedicated to preschool-through-12th-grade education or to issues directly related to at-risk children and youths. Preference will be given to organizations with a strong component of outreach to underserved young people, with particular emphasis on programs that serve homeless children, abused or neglected children, or children in foster care or juvenile detention. After-school, literacy, mentor, peer-counseling, and other school-based programs also are of high interest. |