For more than a decade, the JLGP Community Grants Program has awarded more than $130,000 in grants to over 100 organizations. All grants are provided to help fund non-profit organizations located in our service area (Bucks (PA), Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, and Somerset counties), which have a one-time need of goods or services for a specific program or purpose related to early childhood education and literacy. Applications must be emailed no later than February 15, 2010 to Yvette Rudich, 2009-2010 Grants and Scholarships Chair at grantsandscholarships2010@gmail.com. Recipients will be notified in March 2010 via email or phone. Click here to download a grant application. 2008-2009 Grant Recipients
UIH Family Partners for its Discovering Books, Discovering the World project, which will establish two literacy-rich, child-friendly “learning and growing zones” in their New Empowerment Alternatives (NEA) residential program for adolescent mothers and their children
Bucks County Audubon Society for its interactive Let��®s Get Growing! program, which educates young children in plant growth, food production, the importance of plants in our lives, and healthy food choices through age-appropriate hands-on activities, teaching models, and demonstrations
Homefront for the purchase of age-appropriate software for use by pre-Kindergarten children and their mothers in its existing computer labs
The Arts Council of Princeton for an 8-week summer extension of their ArtReach enrichment program in which an art educator from the Arts Council conducts classes in daycare centers to prepare students for kindergarten readiness with multi-stage art projects designed to develop motor skills, creative thinking and group participation
Womanspace for educational materials for its Home-School Program which provides a schooling option for children who are living in their Emergency Services Shelter, are in a transitional time after fleeing an abusive domestic situation, and are in need of an alternative to public school in order to continue their education while feeling safe
Princeton Young Achievers for Phase 2 of their Literacy for Life program, which was launched with JLGP funding last year and has since grown quickly. This project provides academic after-school programming to children in grades K-5 who live in three subsidized housing sites in Princeton
2007-2008 Grant Recipients
2006-2007 Grant Recipients
