02/25/2015
State Farm is excited to announce the opening of the application windows of two grant programs in March for which you or other organizations in your community may be interested in submitting. Please feel free to apply and/or share via email and social media.
Details are below:
State Farm Youth Advisory Board grant applications are available from March 1st through May 1st! Click Here to Read More or Apply!
Check out some of the projects funded in 2014.
State FarmĀ® Youth Advisory Board (YAB) service-learning grant applications are available March 1 through May 1. The grants range from $25,000 - $100,000 and are designed to create sustainable change in local communities across the United States. Public K-12, charter, higher education institutions, and non-profit organizations are eligible if they are able to demonstrate how they plan to impact student achievement within the public K-12 curriculum. All applicants must have a youth contact and adult administrator, as the programs must be youth-driven and youth-led.
Each grant request must fall under one of these issue areas, chosen by the board itself:
⢠Community Safety and Justice
⢠Environmental Responsibility
⢠Economic Inclusion and Financial Literacy
⢠Access to Higher Education
⢠Health and Wellness
⢠Arts and Culture
As of August 2014, eight years after the initial launch of the YAB, the board has awarded more than $31.4 million in grants to organizations in the U.S. and Canada and impacted approximately 18.1 million lives.
Find out more at www.sfyab.com! You can also check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube!
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Bring $25,000 to your community ā State Farm Neighborhood AssistĀ® submission phase open from March 9th ā March 29th
Have you ever wanted to help your community with a problem but didnāt know where to start? Maybe itās a run-down park or to help the impoverished in your community. Now, YOU have the power to fix it. State Farm Neighborhood Assist wants to help identify and address key issues faced by consumers throughout the United States.
State Farm Neighborhood Assist, a crowd-sourced philanthropic initiative, lets communities determine where grant funding is awarded, exclusively through Facebook. The application is short and simple, and I encourage you to learn more by visiting www.statefarm.com/NeighborhoodAssist or by watching this short video. You, or someone you know, could be the catalyst for positive change to your community cause!
The submission phase is open from March 9th ā March 29th and each Facebook user who downloads the free application can submit up to three causes. Anyone in the United States with a Facebook account is eligible to submit a cause. Itās better to submit early - a maximum of 4,000 submissions will be accepted. All you have to do is submit the cause; you donāt have to ārun the program.ā The cause must fit into the categories of safety, community development, or education.
After the submission stage ends, the State Farm Youth Advisory Board (YAB), a group of college and high school students from across the country, will read and narrow down all the submissions to the top 200 finalists. What the YAB is looking for:
⢠How much does your āCauseā focus on an unmet need in this community?
⢠Why do you feel the $25,000 would address the unmet need?
⢠How much of a lasting impact on this community would the proposal have?
Once the top 200 causes are identified, they will appear on the Facebook application to be voted on by you and your community. The voting stage will last from May 14 ā June 3 and each Facebook user gets 10 votes every day. The top 40 vote-getting causes will be announced on June 16 and each will receive a $25,000 grant.
Please share this amazing opportunity with your colleagues, friends and family and help spread the word on Facebook and Twitter. Together, you and State Farm can help create safer, better educated and more engaged communities!
Thirty students, ages 17-20, from across the United States and Canada comprise the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. They are charged with helping State Farm design and implement a $5 million-a-year signature service-learning initiative to address issues important to State Farm and communities acrossā¦