Criteria for Proposals To qualify for a HYPE Student Mini Award, projects must: ___ Be planned and implemented by a young person or a group of youth who attend the Minneapolis Public Schools. ___ Address a community need and use youth volunteers to carry out the activity. ___ Have a set of measurable objectives. ___ Meet a real need of youth and communities served by MPS. What doesn’t qualify for funding? The award money cannot be used for capital equipment such as: television sets, computers, cameras, uniforms, etc. The council cannot support ideas that are not related to youth or requests for funding for individuals (the entire award cannot pay for one person). Any one specific project cannot be funded more than 2 consecutive years. Timeline – HYPE Mini Award Cycle 11/19/2018 Student Mini Award applications due. 12/04/2017 Initial screening completed. Early January 2019 Mini Award finalists selected. Award notices sent out. Late January 2019 Kickoff Event – location TBD All projects who receive HYPE awards are to submit a paragraph and picture from their project upon completion of the project or by June 7th , 2019. All funds must have been spent at this time.
Criteria for Proposals To qualify for a HYPE Student Mini Award, projects must: ___ Be planned and implemented by a young person or a group of youth who attend the Minneapolis Public Schools. ___ Address a community need and use youth volunteers to carry out the activity. ___ Have a set of measurable objectives. ___ Meet a real need of youth and communities served by MPS. What doesn’t qualify for funding? The award money cannot be used for capital equipment such as: television sets, computers, cameras, uniforms, etc. The council cannot support ideas that are not related to youth or requests for funding for individuals (the entire award cannot pay for one person). Any one specific project cannot be funded more than 2 consecutive years. Timeline – HYPE Mini Award Cycle 11/19/2018 Student Mini Award applications due. 12/04/2017 Initial screening completed. Early January 2019 Mini Award finalists selected. Award notices sent out. Late January 2019 Kickoff Event – location TBD All projects who receive HYPE awards are to submit a paragraph and picture from their project upon completion of the project or by June 7th , 2019. All funds must have been spent at this time.
hype_mini_award_application_2018-2019.docx