Texas Fund Now Accepting Grant Applications

Submitted by Amigos on Thu, 2011-01-06 10:18

The First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative for Texas, a program of The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy, is now accepting applications for implementation and planning grants for 2011-2012.

Implementation grants of up to $50,000 are given to organizations in Texas to:

  • help create a family literacy program, i.e. one that offers adult literacy education for parents or primary caregivers, pre-literacy or literacy instruction for young children, and interactive literacy activities for the young children together with their parents or primary caregivers;
  • expand an existing reading program that works with only one generation so that a complete family literacy program (including the required components named above) can be created;
  • allow for an innovative project within an existing family literacy program; or
  • replicate a successful family literacy program with a new population or in a new location.

Planning grants of $5,000 are also available to support a 9-month planning and development process (starting June 2011) that will enable an organization to compete more effectively in 2012 for a First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative for Texas program implementation grant of up to $50,000.

Application deadline for both grant programs is March 4, 2011. More information on the grant programs can be found at The First Lady’s Family Literacy Initiative for Texas website.