Grants Available for Family Engagement/Books
(Yes, I know I'm supposed to be gone but I saw this in my mail and wanted to pass it along to any interested groups.) The W.K. Kellogg Foundation yesterday announced a $5 million investment to identify and expand promising family engagement efforts that support early childhood educational success. Given your interest in education and family engagement issues, I thought you might be interested in sharing this news with your networks. I’ve included more information and a sample tweet below. The foundation is seeking initial submissions of intent from organizations and groups striving to build innovative, equitable and effective family-engagement approaches and will invest up to $5 million in 2013-14 with possible funding of up to $500,000 for one to three years. Applications, available on this website which includes more information, are due Sept. 23, 2013 . From First Book Seattle: If you work with children from low income families or i...