From: Native American Alumni Association of Dartmouth on behalf of Nicole Adams
Sent: Wed 2/7/2007 4:34 PM
To: NAAAD-LIST@LISTSERV .DARTMOUTH. EDU
Subject: Help in circulating info re: Early College High School Funding
Please feel free to circulate this email to your various contacts.
The Center for Native Education is currently accepting concept papers from secondary and postsecondary schools, tribes and/or urban Indian organizations to join the Early Colleges for Native Youth consortium of schools. Funding is available.
The Center serves as an intermediary between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Indian Country, making grants of up to a half a million dollars to communities who want to create an Early College High School. Early Colleges are high schools where students can earn their high school diploma and up to two years of college credit simultaneously.
To date, the Center serves 11 schools in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. Because of the overwhelming success of these Early College High Schools, we received additional funding to make the initiative national in its scope.
To sum this up, I'm asking for your help in spreading the word that grants ranging from $325,000 to $525,000 are available to help create new charter or tribal schools or convert existing schools to fit the Early College model. We've got the grants, but we need your help in finding applicants.
More information can be found at www.centerfornative ed.org, or by email me at nadams@antiochseatt le.edu. Any help you can give in spreading the word is greatly appreciated.
Best,
Nicole Adams
Director, Center for Native Education