Ezra Jack Keats Foundation: Mini-Grant Program

The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation offers Mini-Grants to public schools, public libraries, and public preschool programs in the United States and its territories.

Grants of up to $500 are provided for creative, innovative projects that provide an enriched learning experience either supporting or extending the basic curriculum.

Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grants have been used in a number of successful school and library programs, including:

• an ongoing pen pal project bringing together disparate communities;
• a multicultural portrait project;
• an art project culminating in an art show, a mural, or a quilt;
• bookmaking;
• creating and performing a puppet show;
• an intergenerational journal or activity;
• a theater production; and,
• a newspaper or other publication.

Grants are not provided for general operating or administrative costs, salaries, or fees.

Private schools, parochial schools, and charter schools are not eligible to apply.

Note: The Foundation also offers the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Awards For Children's Books, and the Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition. Visit the website for more information.

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