Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

RESOURCES TO CONNECT FOR YOUTH

Oct 18, 2002

**South Carolina Counselor Goes High-Tech to Help Students
Education Week profiles a high school counselor who has set up a Web site and database to track student performance and help match them with appropriate college possibilities and financial aid sources. You can read about him and check out the resources on the site.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=06counselor.h22

**Putting Volunteer Experience in Context
Student volunteers can make a major contribution to their communities, but they make a greater contribution to their learning when their volunteer work is reinforced in the classroom. This Youth Service America tip sheet gives ideas on how to combine classroom with hands-on service learning.
http://www.ysa.org/tip_sheet.cfm

**Funding for Children and Youth
October is "Funding for Children and Youth Month" at the Foundation Center, where you'll find lists of foundations and a report on foundation giving patterns.
http://www.fdncenter.org/focus/youth

**Handspring Foundation Youth Grants
Nonprofit groups that operate programs dedicated to preschool through 12th grade education or to issues directly related to at-risk children and youth can apply for $25,000 grants. Deadline: November 1.
http://www.handspring.com/company/foundation

**The "Very Best In Youth" Program
Sponsored by Nestle and Reading Is Fundamental, this program honors the achievements of young people between 9 and 18 who recognize the importance of reading in their lives and work hard to improve their communities. Thirty young people will be selected to receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles for an awards ceremony in July, 2003, and $1,000 to be donated to the charity of their choice. Deadline: November 29, 2002
http://www.rif.org/news/events/vbiy2003.html