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Community Conversations About Education is pleased to announce that applications for 2013-2014 conversations are posted on the Web site: www.ctconversations.org.   

 

Individuals and organizations receive up to $2500 to organize local community conversations. Sample topics have included: Bullying, School Climate, Skills for the 21st Century, Parental involvement, School Safety, School Readiness. For eighteen years the grants have been supported by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund in 107 Connecticut communities. The conversations bring together diverse groups of local citizens to discuss issues of importance to them. The conversations will be held in fall 2013 through spring 2014.

 

Those interested in using the single topic:  "Looking for Answers Together: How Should We Nurture Children to be Healthy and Make Better Choices?" may apply for a $1500 grant designed to get communities talking about parent access to information.  We are seeking 10 communities to conduct conversations specific to this topic using an “Issues Guide” available at (http://www.discovery.wcgmf.org/lookingforanswerstogether). Five communities' conversations will occur this fall and part of ongoing research. The other five would be held in the spring of 2014 and after the data collection is completed.

 

Applications and guidelines are available on the Community Conversations Web site: www.ctconversations.org. The deadline is August 1, 2013.

For further information contact: Nancy Polk at Npolk@aol.com or Mary Broderick at 203 397 2799 or Mary Broderick at   mary-broderick@att.net.

 

 

 

 

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