Deadline: 15 February 2017
The TK Foundation is seeking applications for Youth Development programme that provides disadvantaged youth with opportunities to achieve self-sufficiency and maximize their capabilities.
The TK Foundation is interested in supporting nonprofit youth sailing programs that are reaching motivated disadvantaged youth. Winning programs will offer youth an up-close and personal relationship with the ocean, provide them with opportunities to challenge themselves in an ocean environment, teach responsible seamanship and stewardship, and help them develop important life skills.
The TK Foundation is looking for youth sailing programs that motivate disadvantaged youth through a combination of program criteria which aims to:
- Offer an ongoing educational experience
- Programmatic elements may include: Instruction, mentoring, and educational field trips
- Promote responsibility
- Programmatic elements may include: Internships, or other types of work-related, hands-on experience
- Promote leadership skills
- Programmatic elements may include: Volunteer opportunities, peer mentorship, or advocacy
Goals
The TK Foundation’s goals for impacting the futures of Disadvantaged Youth are:
- To improve educational achievement of disadvantaged youth
- To prepare disadvantaged youth for succeeding in the workforce
Funding Information
The TK Youth Sailing grant program expects to make approximately $200,000 in grants, in sizes ranging from $4,000 to $10,000.
Evaluation Criteria
- Disadvantaged-The TK Foundation wishes to target those youth that 1) do not have equal opportunities because of circumstances that makes achievement unusually difficult and 2) are at risk of social exclusion.
- Youth– Between the ages of 9and 21. Applicants are requested to differentiate between “Children” (9-12) “Teens” (13-17) and “Young Adults” (18-21).
- Proposed program is compatible with your organization’s mission and the purpose of grant program stated above.
- Agencyshows experience with targeted community(ies) and access to the populations served.
- The program for which you are seeking support effectively
- Offers an ongoing educational experience
- Promotes responsibility
- Promotes leadership and life skills
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be located in, or have programs operating within, the service area of any US,UK, Canadian, Bahamian, and Bermudian city or county.
- Eligible applicants must be nonprofit public benefit corporations exempt from federal income taxes under US, UK, Canadian, Bahamian, or Bermudian Internal Revenue Codes.
- Applicants must operate without illegal discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin or disability.
- If the organization is a previous or current TK Foundation Fund grantee, all reporting requirements must be current or your agency will not be considered for funding.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can download the application forms via given website.
Eligible Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Bahamas, Bermuda
For more information, please visit TK Foundation Youth Sailing Programs.