Description
The purpose of the 21st CCLC program is to provide funds for communities to establish or expand activities in community learning centers that
- provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students, particularly students who attend low-performing schools, to meet the challenging state academic standards;
- offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities, such as youth development activities; service learning, nutrition and health education; drug and violence prevention programs; counseling programs; arts, music, physical fitness, and wellness programs; technology education programs; financial literacy programs; environmental literacy programs; mathematics, science, career, and technology programs; internship or apprenticeship programs; and other ties to an in-demand industry sector or occupation for high school students that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students; and
- offer families of students served by such centers opportunities for active and meaningful engagement in their children’s education, including opportunities for literacy and related educational development.
Program Office
Student Intervention Services
Eligible Applicants
School districts, community-based organizations, and other public or private entities.
All applicants must meet the criteria associated with a joint applicant to be considered for funding.
A joint applicant is at least two organizations that together submit a single application proposing to serve a school in an eligible school attendance area in which not less than 40 percent of the children are from low-income families, or not less than 40 percent of the children enrolled in the school are from such families. At least one of the organizations must be a school or district, and the other organization must be an entity other than a school or district.
Total Funding Available
$4,500,000
Funding Detail
Approximately 15–17 subgrants; Award amounts will be determined based on the type of applicant and the number of students to be served.
Project Term
August 1, 2021, through July 31, 2025 (maximum of four years)
Application Due Date
May 3, 2021
Technical Assistance Session
A pre-application
technical assistance webinar was provided on
March 29, 2021. Please contact
Joyce Patterson or
Amy Bosch for a link to the recording.
Contacts
Joyce Patterson
803-734-8291
jypatterson@ed.sc.gov
Amy Bosch
803-734-8114
abosch@ed.sc.gov
Documents
Request for Proposals (DOCX, 3.08mb -
REVISED 3/15/21)
Online Application
Budget Forecast and Narrative Template (XLSX, 20kb - 3/12/21)
Timeline of Activities Template (DOCX, 14kb - 3/12/21)
Project Weekly Schedule Template (DOCX, 13kb - 3/12/21)
Multi-Year Program Design and Performance Form Template (DOCX, 15kb - 3/12/21)
Program Web Page
21st Century Community Learning Centers Program
