The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation will accept applications from public schools and libraries anywhere in the United States.  Some examples of creative programs funded in the past are:

• Ongoing pen-pal projects briging disparate communities together
• Multi-cultural portrait projects
• Art projects culminating in art shows, murals, or quilts
• Bookmaking
• Creation and performance of puppet shows
• Inter-generational journals

Funds will not be granted for:

• General operating costs
• Administrative costs
• Transportation of the audience
• Purchase of books, tapes, software or equipmnt unrelated to a specific program described

For more information and an application form visit: http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/programs/minigrant.html