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Youth Development Institute: Developing Community-Based Career and Technical Education Strategies for Youth Who Have Dropped out of School: Tides Center
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Youth Development Institute: Developing Community-Based Career and Technical Education Strategies for Youth Who Have Dropped out of School
May, 2011
Amount: $100,000
Grant Period: 4/1/2011 to 3/31/2012
Program: Pathways Out of Poverty
Program Area: Improving Community Education
Geographic Focus: United States: United States (At Large)

This grant will enable the Youth Development Institute, a program of the Tides Center, to continue to develop a community-based career and technical education pathway into work and further education for students who have dropped out of school with low academic skill levels. The Youth Development Institute is a New York-based organization that partners with community-based organizations, schools, and colleges to create programs that help young people transition into adulthood. Youth Development Institute will create more efficient technical assistance strategies that are responsive to partnering program sites' needs, refine the educational curricula, and further develop the work-related components of the community-based career and technical education pathway model.
Philadelphia Youth Transitions Collaborative: Supporting City Partnerships to Address the Dropout Crisis: Philadelphia Youth Network
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Philadelphia Youth Transitions Collaborative: Supporting City Partnerships to Address the Dropout Crisis
May, 2011
Amount: $250,000
Grant Period: 4/1/2011 to 3/31/2013
Program: Pathways Out of Poverty
Program Area: Improving Community Education
Geographic Focus: United States: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
Pathways to Graduation: The Mendez and Brown Project to Expand Pathways to Graduation for African American and Latino Students: Intercultural Development Research Association
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Pathways to Graduation: The Mendez and Brown Project to Expand Pathways to Graduation for African American and Latino Students
May, 2011
Amount: $100,000
Grant Period: 4/1/2011 to 3/31/2012
Program: Pathways Out of Poverty
Program Area: Improving Community Education
Geographic Focus: United States: United States (Multiple States)
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The Mott Foundation’s Pathways Out of Poverty program supports initiatives around the United States that seek to improve community education, especially for traditionally underserved children and youth.

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Harlem Children's Zone

Earlier this year, TIME Magazine named Harlem Children's Zone Project founder Geoffrey Canada one of the TIME 100 most influential people in the world. Learn more about the Harlem Children's Zone, a Mott grantee since 1994, in this TIME Magazine video.
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Tapology Tap Dance Festival Mott Grant Renewed
Introducing Flint-area kids to the art and athleticism of tap dance is the focus of Tapology, an annual festival dedicated to the genre, as well as for founder Bruce Bradley . A recent $64,500 grant reflects Mott's ongoing support of the collaborative project.