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Drug Alliance Grants:  ACTION is inviting applications for the fist of two
fiscal 1992 Drug Alliance competitions to fund projects that provide drug
prevention and education and alternative activities for at-risk youths.
 
Proposed projects must use volunteers and traget youths living in low-income
communities, particularly inner-city neighborhoods, public housing
developments and rural areas.
 
Applicants should emphasize recruiting volunteers from the community to be
served.  ACTION encourages proposals for activities that will take place
outside normal school hours.  Projects must include a prevention education
component that offers information on the harmful effects of illegal drug
use and techniques for resisting peer pressure and refusing drugs.
 
Deadline:  March 27.
 
Funds:  The one-year grants will not exceed $40,000 each.  Applicants
who request more that $10,000 should include evaluation plans in their
proposals.
 
Eligibility:  Individual schools, local education agencies and other public
and private non-profits that serve youths.
 
Contact:  For applications and program information, contact the appropriate
ACTION office.  For general program information, contact Calvin Dawson,
Drug Alliance, Program Demonstration and Development Div., ACTION, 1100
Vermont Ave., NW, Washington, DC  20525, (202)606-4857.
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Drug Abuse Prevention For Runaway And Homeless Youths:  The Health and
Human Services Department's Administration for Children and Families will
fund projects to improve and expand drug abuse prevention, education and
information services for runaway and homeless youths and their families.
 
ACF favors projects that involve family members, are sensitive to the needs
of ethnic and minority group members, develop innovative ways to secure
appropriate treatment services for clients and integrate their services
with other agencies.  While ACF encourages a comprehensive approach,
applicants may focus on particular problems confronting their communities
or a specific gap in services.
 
Activities may involve networking and service coordination, expanding
outreach, providing family, group and/or peer intervention and counseling,
providing aftercare, increasing staff knowledge, increasing culture-specific
programs, developing youths' coping skills and coordinating with mental
health programs.
 
Deadline:  March 23.
 
Funds:  $4.5 million for 45 to 50 grants of up to $100,000 a year.  There
is a 25 percent cash or in-kind matching requirement.  The project
period is three years.
 
Eligibility:  Local education agencies and other state and local government
units and public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations and
institutions, including colleges and universities.
 
Contact:  Anita Wright, Health and Human Services Department, Administration
on Children, youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, Program
Support Div., P.O. Box 1182, Washington, DC  20013, (202)245-0049.
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Humanities Teacher-Scholar Program:  The National Endowment for the Humanities
is offering grants to teachers for an academic year of full-time humanities
study.
 
Deadline:  May 1.
 
Funds:  NEH plans to award 25 scholarships in fiscal 1992.  Teachers will
receive stipends of up to $30,000 to replace their academic-year salaries.
 
For teachers who receive other grants or sabatical pay, NEH will provide
enough money to bring the total amount up to their salary level.  Grants
include $500 honoraria for an optional humanities mentor.
 
Eligibility:  Full-time public and private school humanities teachers.
 
Contact:  Annette Palmer, national Endowment for the Humanities, 1100
Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 302, Washington, DC  202-786-0377.
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Summer Seminars For School Teachers:  The National Endowment for the
Humanities is offering fiscal 1992 grants to teachers and scholars to lead
summer humanities seminars for teachers.
 
Deadline:  April 1, 1992, to lead summer 1993 seminars.
 
Funds:  Directors receive stipends based on their salary for the academic
year.  For a four-week seminar, they receive 16.6 percent of their salary;
for a five-week seminar, they receive 19.4 percent; and for a six-week
seminar, they receive 22.2 percent.  NEH has requested nearly $5 million
in fiscal 1992 for this program, which also includes teacher participant
grants.
 
Eligibility:  Humanities teachers and scholars.
 
Contact:  Michael Hall, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100
Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 316, Washington, DC  20506, 202-786-0463.
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