Peace Corps Partnership Grants
Total Donated: $31,850 to 53 Projects
Grant Program Guidelines
The Tennessee Returned Peace Corps Volunteers group aims to support Peace Corps Volunteers through the Peace Corps Partnership program. The TNRPCV group sometimes issues grants to Peace Corps Partnership proposals. The TNRPCV Board gives preference to Peace Corps Partnership proposals by Volunteers whose home state is Tennessee, but the Board can consider other proposals.
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Featured Projects
CAMP GLOW
TONGA
$500 was donated in August 2015 to help Kayla Callicutt run a week-long camp (Girls Leading Our World) for 25 female 9th grade students. The sessions will cover topics such as goal setting, leadership, water safety, public speaking, conflict resolution, sexual health, the rights of women and children, sexual harassment and domestic abuse, nutrition, food sanitation, and environmental responsibility.
LET GIRLS LEARN
CAMP MODEL UNITED NATIONS
UKRAINE
$625 was donated in June 2017 for E. Keane's project where high-school age campers from all over Ukraine got to interact with Americans and Ukrainians who they had never met before. They gained an understanding of different cultures not only through the lessons and debate sessions, but also through the interactions and relationships formed during the camp.
LET GIRLS LEARN
SALOUM GIRLS' LEADERSHIP & EMPOWERMENT CAMP
SENEGAL
$625 was donated in June 2017 to help Lisa Wheatley lead a camp for 40 high-achieving secondary school girls across central Senegal to be catalysts for positive change in their communities.