Attention: Grants Available to Youngsters with Disabilities

Agency: Do Something
Scope: Do Something provides small grants for young people with creative ideas to solve problems in their communities.
Deadline: March 12
Funds: Grants are up to $500 each. Do Something awards about 72 grants annually.
Eligibility: Young people, including students and beginning teachers, under the age of 30.
Areas: Applicants should show a commitment to strengthen their communities by designing projects to solve a specific community problem. Individuals should do as much as work on the project before applying as possible; concentrate on one problem, rather than trying to solve multiple problems at the same time; and serve as a possible model for others.
Recent Grants: Do Something has awarded grants to young people aged 9-28 nationwide, including grants to a 16 year-old student who organized a community service and extracurricular activity; a nine year-old for a program to identify 10 African males in the community to help them build self-esteem; and a 13 year-old who built a wheelchair access ramp onto his school's baseball field so that kids in wheelchairs could enjoy the games.
Contact: National Grants, Do Something, 423 West 55th St., 8th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Information is also available on the Internet at http://www.dosomething.org/.

March 1997

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