Grant of the Week: Tolerance.org

The Mix It Up Grant Program from Tolerance.org and the Southern Poverty Law Center is accepting applications.

"Have a great idea about how to challenge social boundaries and bring down the walls that divide your school?" Tolerance.org wants to help. They are awarding "$500 grants to support youth-directed programs and projects that address social boundaries in schools or communities."

Guidelines:

*Youth must serve as decision-makers in the project. Ideally, the project is created and implemented by youth.
* Projects must promote collaboration across social boundaries — different youth groups, clubs or community groups working together.
* The project or program should be a part of an ongoing effort, or an effort that's just getting started, but will continue.
* Grants are non-renewable.

Deadline: OPEN

For more information and to download an application, visit http://www.tolerance.org/teens/grants.jsp.

Grant of the Week: Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships

Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship program.

These fellowships, "seek to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students."

The Fellowship makes the following annual awards:
Approximately 60 Predoctoral Awards at $20,000 per year for up to three years.
Approximately 35 Dissertation Awards at $21,000 for one year
Approximately 20 Postdoctoral Awards at $40,000 for one year

For more information on these programs, as well as the online application form, visit http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/.