The New York Life Foundation announces its Request for Proposals for its 2010 Awards Program for organizations serving youth in New York City and Westchester. The Foundation will award six $25,000 grants, one in each of New York City’s five boroughs and one in Westchester County, to nonprofit organizations with an existing program that supports the Foundation’s educational enhancement category as part of its Nurturing the Children initiative. It is open to organizations with operating budgets of less than $5 million. Applications will be reviewed and awarded on a competitive basis.
Qualified nonprofits focus their programs on preparing young people for higher education or the workplace and equip them to be responsible citizens. Activities should: enrich academic performance; provide a foundation in basic skills, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science and communication; and enhance thinking skills, such as decision-making, problem solving and reasoning. New York Life Foundation is particularly interested in programs serving disadvantaged youth, including those who are in foster care or aging out of foster care, are homeless, or are neither in school nor working.
Complete guidelines for the 2010 Awards Program are available at the Foundation’s website at www.newyorklifefoundation.org/award. Applications will be accepted online only from October 1 to December 15. Awards will be announced in March 2010.