New Funding from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Will Expand Youth Service Infrastructure in Eight States
30 Abril 2024 - 7:00AM
America’s Service Commissions is pleased to announce that it has
received a $300,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
to deepen youth service and service-learning in eight states. The
funding will support eight state service commissions, each
receiving a grant of $30,000 for 18 months to replicate successful
youth service initiatives.
The eight state service commissions receiving a total of
$240,000 in subgrants include:
- Arizona Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism
- Serve Connecticut
- Volunteer Iowa
- Michigan Community Service Commission
- New Jersey Commission on National and Community Service
- New York State Commission on National and Community
Service
- ServeOhio
- UServeUtah
In addition, ASC is partnering with the National Youth
Leadership Council (NYLC) to provide a professional development
training on service-learning for up to 50 teachers and afterschool
leaders in the participating states. The training will equip
education professionals with the tools to incorporate
service-learning into educational settings.
“ASC is grateful to the Mott Foundation for their continued
support of youth service and afterschool programming,” says Kaira
Esgate, ASC CEO. “This funding will enable state service
commissions to continue rebuilding critical youth development
programming and related service infrastructure.”
As part of the grant, ASC will provide technical assistance and
facilitate peer learning with the participating state service
commissions. ASC will also provide direct coaching to up to 16
AmeriCorps programs in the participating states on incorporating
youth service or service-learning into their AmeriCorps program
design.
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About America’s Service CommissionsAmerica’s Service Commissions
(ASC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing and
promoting the 52 state service commissions across the United States
and territories with the mission to lead and elevate the state
service network. State service commissions are governor-appointed
public agencies or nonprofit organizations made up of more than
1,000 commissioners, private citizens leading the nation’s service
movement and administering more than 75 percent of the federal
AmeriCorps funds to address pressing community needs.
About the Charles Stewart Mott FoundationAutomotive pioneer
Charles Stewart Mott established the private, charitable foundation
that bears his name in 1926 in Flint, Michigan. The Mott Foundation
supports and works with organizations in its hometown of Flint and
communities around the world to promote a just, equitable and
sustainable society. The Foundation makes grants through four
programs: Civil Society, Education, Environment and Flint Area. In
addition to Flint, the Foundation has offices in metropolitan
Detroit, Johannesburg and London. In 2023, the Foundation made
376 grants totaling nearly $153 million and had year-end
assets of approximately $3.6 billion. For more information,
visit mott.org.
Ashton Yount
America's Service Commissions
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ayount@statecommissions.org