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The Taproot Foundation Service Grant Program

The Taproot Foundation will provide capacity-building services for five New York City-based grantees of the Foundation’s Youth Service Improvement Grants program.

The Taproot Foundation will provide capacity-building services for five New York City-based grantees of the Foundation’s Youth Service Improvement Grants program. These services will focus on improving the organizations in one of the following areas: leadership development, human resources, strategy management and marketing, and information technology.

About This Grant

Principal Investigator Robert Acton, The Taproot Foundation
Co-Principal Investigator Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald, The Taproot Foundation
Grant Period February 2010 – January 2012
Programs Capacity-Building and Communications
Focus Areas Improving Youth Services in New York City
Topics Out of School Time
Grant Amount
$40,000.00

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