Running Strong for American Indian Youth is excited to announce the fifth year of the Dreamstarter grant program!

Do you know a Native young person with a dream?

Running Strong is giving away fifty $10,000 grants over five years to jumpstart the dreams of Native American youth
http://www.indianyouth.org/dreamstarter . Over the past four years, we’ve given out grants to forty incredible Native young people and witnessed their dreams come to life. Our first four classes have tackled projects around the themes of wellness, arts & culture, education, and science & the environment. Each one of our Dreamstarters has an amazing story, and we’re blown away by their success.

On October 14, 2018, the anniversary of our co-founder Billy Mills’ historic gold medal win, applications will officially open for our fifth class of Dreamstarters around the theme of entrepreneurs. We’ll choose ten outstanding Native young people (ages 14 – 30) with inspiring projects to give back to their communities and make their dreams come true.

We count on you to help us spread the word to find the next class of Dreamstarters. http://www.indianyouth.org/dreamstarter

We know our next ten talented Dreamstarters are out there, and we need your help to find them. We want to get a diverse and highly qualified applicant pool, so please help us spread the word! Attached you’ll find text you can use in a newsletter or e-blast to your audiences, as well as share images and sample Tweets and Facebook posts to go along with them.

Do you know a young person with a dream project that fits the entrepreneurs theme? Put us in touch.

We’re always happy to share more information about Dreamstarter with potential applicants. If you know someone who might make a great Dreamstarter, please nominate them by sending an email to [email protected]. We’ll send them all the information they’ll need to apply.

I encourage you to also consider joining a Dreamstarter applicant as a mentor organization. Mentors travel with Dreamstarters to Dreamstarter Academy in Washington, D.C. and help manage the grants and bring the projects to life. You’ll also be eligible to apply for an additional $50,000 for previous Dreamstarter projects at the end of the five-year grant period.

For more details about the program and eligibility requirements, please visit http://www.indianyouth.org/dreamstarter, or get in touch with me and the Running Strong staff.

Thank you so much for helping us get out the word.

Sincerely,

Lauren Haas Finkelstein

Executive Director

Running Strong for American Indian Youth

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(Many thanks to Linda T. for sharing)