For additional information and copies of the application, please their websites. In an effort to make America a safer place for young people, the National Crime Prevention Council will offer Communities of Promise the opportunity to apply for grants as part of its National Campaign Against Youth Violence . By partnering with Communities of Promise, the council is looking to increase youth involvement and leadership, stimulate private sector investment and improve media exposure and coverage of local activities that promote crime prevention. Community collaboratives that were developed to reduce violence by and against youth are invited to apply. The National Crime Prevention Council seeks a nationwide commitment from people to act individually and together to prevent crime and build safe, caring communities.
Numerous barriers exist that prevent citizens' involvement and voluntarism.
K-12 educators apply for and obtain special grants for a variety of projects. They offer a scholarship program that will award one high school student and their parent or guardian participation in an expense paid, per trip description, mission trip. Scheduled for this year are mission trips to Mexico City, Haiti, Belize and Cuba. These mission trips are ruled as instructional time by the Indiana Department of Education and will be supervised by a licensed teacher. For the first time, applications for this year's grants are available to online as well as descriptions of projects that won grants last year.