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Let’s get started on your Award Application!

All Service Learning Award projects funded by the Brown Foundation Service Learning Program have two components – a school and a service partner. The application is submitted by a school (a class or school sponsored club), grades K-12, in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington Parishes. The service partner is required to be a group or school other than your own. It may be a school, Head Start, cause agency such as Second Harvest Food Bank, Council on Aging, Magnolia School, Ronald McDonald House, LSU Coastal Roots, a nursing home, faith-based organization, or other agency in your area that addresses needs of the environment, elderly, hungry, homeless, an illness, at risk youth, etc.

Service Learning Awards are non-competitive. Schools and teachers may submit more than one service learning award application. Award applications are due in the Spring, for the following school year. Applications will be accepted October 1, 2011 – March 16, 2012 for the 2012-2013 school year.

The first 10 “Early Birds” (teachers) submitting a service learning application prior to March 16, 2012 for the 2012-2013 school year will receive a gift card at the Fall 2012 Service Learning Event. All schools in the 10 parish area may submit service learning applications between October 1, 2011 and March 16, 2012 for the 2012-2013 school year.

We want to fund your school!

When completing the application, we request you detail the answers in at least five sentences, addressing each step of service learning beginning with the classroom learning, preparation for serving, the actual service with the service partner, reflection on the experience, how it will be demonstrated to others and the evaluation of the plan.

Before a service learning experience begins, the school applicant contacts potential service partner(s) to share the idea, plan, and timeline of what the students would like to do to link their classroom learning to addressing the needs of the service partner. It should be a plan of action with a purpose that clearly connects learning and service. With dates set and students knowing their roles, this preparation paves the way to the actual implementation.

Award applications for the 2012-2013 school year will be accepted from October 1, 2011 – March 16, 2012. All applicants and principals will receive a status of application letter in August of 2012. Approved schools will receive a service learning award check issued on September 11, 2012 at the annual Service Learning Event. The Service Learning Team will visit your plan once it is underway. Please keep in touch to let us know how your service learning plans are progressing. You can reach us by phone or email.

Service Learning Application Workshops are offered in October, November, December and January.

For more information, please contact us:

Barbara Gasdaglis at barbaragasdaglis@thebrownfoundation.org 504-834-3433 Ext. 210

Tina Bouzon at tinabouzon@thebrownfoundation.org 504-834-3433 Ext. 215

Mailing address is 320 Hammond Highway, Suite 502, Metairie, LA 70005

Phone: 504-834-3433 | Fax: 504-834-3441

Guidelines and forms:

All guidelines on how to complete these forms are in Adobe and require an Adobe reader. If you do not have a reader, you can download one for free at this trusted site.

Note: Forms to complete are in MicroSoft Word. Please choose the version/year of MS Word that suits your computer best (1997-2003 or 2010).

Application

Changes to existing Application

Expenditure, Evaluation, and Reflection Report

Principal's Special Award

In appreciation for service learning participation and to support current and new service learning, we awarded the principal of each, participating Brown Foundation Service Learning school $1,000.00 for the 2011-2012 school year. Funds may be spent on positive behavior incentives, service ideas suggested by students, matching funds for other school supported programs, establishing an outdoor garden, school beautification efforts, a contest by students, etc.

Checks were awarded on September 13, 2011 at the Service Learning Event. The Principal’s Special Award Report will be due by Monday, April 30, 2012.

Comments and thank you notes should be directed to the Board President: Mr. D. Paul Spencer. Questions or other comments may be directed to Barbara Gasdaglis or Tina Bouzon.

Principals are required to complete:

Principal's Special Award Report (MS Word version 2010)

Principal's Special Award Report (MS Word version 1997-2003)

Educational Visits

Educational visits to the National World War II Museum and the Audubon Institute are offered by the Brown Foundation to all classes and clubs receiving a Service Learning Award. Groups are invited as our guest to visit the Insectarium, Aquarium, IMAX movie, National World War II Museum and/or Beyond All Boundaries movie. As a treat to all funded schools, your group may visit all sites.

Details and reservation forms will be mailed to all qualifying 2011-2012 participating schools. Please follow instructions and have students send thank you notes to the Board President, D. Paul Spencer in care of our mailing address.