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              Learn and Serve America Announces $20 Million in Service-Learning Grants (TABLE)
      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Jul 30, 2009
  

                    Washington DC - The Corporation for National and Community Service today announced 36 Learn and Serve America grants totaling nearly $20 million to engage students across the nation in service-learning projects that promote community service while enhancing students' academic and civic skills.The grants will support service-learning at schools, institutions of higher education, tribes, and faith-based and community groups. Service-learning is an approach to education that links community service to academic achievement while also teaching students about our country's civic institutions and traditions.School BasedStateLegal ApplicantYears FundedGrant AwardCOEducation Commission of the States3$926,640DCYouth Service America3$890,278HIState of Hawaii, Department of Education3$900,000MAMassachusetts Department of Education3$1,150,000MEKids Consortium, Inc.2$600,000MNNational Youth Leadership Council NYLC3$899,974VAVCU Division of Community Engagement2$400,090TOTAL$5,766,982School-Based Indian Tribes & US TerritoriesStateLegal ApplicantYears FundedGrant AwardCASan Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians3$151,772MIHannahville Indian Community2$197,800MTConfederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes3$359,667TOTAL$709,239Community-BasedStateLegal ApplicantYears FundedGrant AwardCANational Indian Justice Center2$540,000GAUsher's New Look, Inc.1$200,000IAIowa Commission on Volunteer Service2$500,000MDInnovation Center for Community and Youth Development2$585,000MTHopa Mountain, Inc.2$580,000NCThe Rural School and Community Trust2$580,000NYGirl Scouts of the USA2$600,000TNVolunteer Tennessee2$586,996TOTAL$4,171,996Higher EducationStateLegal ApplicantYears FundedGrant AwardCASFSU - California Campus Compact2$928,510DCAmerican Association of Community Colleges2$742,636DCServe DC-DC Commission on National & Community Service2$860,571KYWestern Kentucky University Research Foundation2$755,544MAUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth1$470,937NYResearch Foundation of CUNY on behalf of the Graduate Center1$338,407OHOhio Campus Compact1$482,835PADrexel University Center for Civic Engagement1$443,970PAHarrisburg University of Science and Technology1$460,474SUBTOTAL - Consortia Grants$5,483,884COColorado State University3$501,276FLUniversity of Central Florida3$570,000FLUniversity of South Florida3$395,000ILThe Chicago School of Professional Psychology3$581,884MATufts University3$508,977MOCurators of the University of Missouri3$420,000NCFayetteville State University3$465,378NYSt. John Fisher College3$99,384VANorthern Virginia Community College3$245,320SUBTOTAL - Individual Grants$3,787,219TOTAL$9,271,103
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