Emily Grants to be Announced in late May 2012
IIECL and the Emily Sandall Foundation wish to extend thanks to all of the hundreds of applicants who responded to the call for applications for an Emily grant.
“This has been the largest response that we have received since the inception of the grant program in 2004,” says Diane Mull, Executive Director. “It is amazing what communities and organizations can accomplishment with a small grant. We have so many wonderful projects proposed, that selecting only ten is a real challenge.”
Due to the huge response, the Emily grant award announcements are taking longer than usual in order to give each applicant a thorough review and consideration. As a result, the top ten applicants selected for Emily grants will be announced later this month (May 2012). We recommend that, if you are not already subscribed, please subscribe to IIECL’s entries and announcements (below on this webpage) and follow IIECL on Twitter and Facebook.
Global: Applications being accepted for Spring 2012 Emily Grants
If you are a young person, teacher, school or NGO working with children and/or youth and need a small amount of funds to support a project idea to help end exploitative child labor, we want to hear your ideas. In collaboration with the Emily Sandall Foundation, ECL will be awarding 12 Emily grants in the spring of 2012. Applications are due by midnight March 31, 2012. The theme for this round of grants is to support research and information gathering, documented by photos or video on worst forms of child labor that exists in local communities. There may be a form of child labor that has gone unnoticed or overlooked that needs to be brought to the attention of major donors and UN agencies. Application guidelines can be found by clicking here. The re is no need to write to request permission to send a proposal and please send all applications to ESMF-Grant@endchildlabor.org.
This is your chance to shed light on activities where children are being used, forced or trafficked to perform worst forms of child labor in your community. Presenting the story of an affected child or children engaged in this form of child labor is encouraged to be included within the application. Applications that focus on other strategies to end child labor will also be considered. Information on how to apply can be found within the Emily Sandall Memorial Grants section on the website. Read more…
