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Members of ALAN may apply to the ALAN Foundation for funding (up to $1,500)
for research in young adult literature. Proposals are reviewed by the five most
recent presidents of ALAN. Awards are made annually in the Fall and are announced
at the ALAN breakfast during the NCTE convention in November. The application
deadline each year is September 15th.

Click Here for the ALAN Foundation Research Grant form.

Gallo Grants

The Gallo Grants were established in 2003 by former ALAN Award and Hipple Award
recipient Don Gallo to encourage educators in their early years of teaching
to attend the ALAN Workshop for the first time. The grants provide funding—up
to $500 each—for two classroom teachers in middle school or high school
each year to attend the ALAN Workshop. (The amount of a grant may be less than
$500 if the applicant lives within commuting distance of the convention location
where airfare and housing would not be necessary.) The Workshop is held at the end of
annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English on the Monday
and Tuesday prior to Thanksgiving Day. Applicants must be teaching full-time;
must have been classroom teachers for less than five years prior to the year
in which they are applying; and must not have attended an ALAN Workshop previously.
Membership in ALAN is not required for consideration, though applicants are
expected to become ALAN members if they receive this grant.

Each applicant must fill out the attached grant application form and submit
an essay of no more than 750 words explaining their interest in Young Adult
Literature, what they hope to gain by attending this year’s ALAN Workshop,
and how they hope to use the experience in their classrooms in the future. A
letter of support must also come from the applicant’s school system. The
deadline for submission is September 1. Applicants will be judged on their ability
to articulate their understanding of the value of Young Adult Literature as
well as their explanation of how they intend to use YA books and the information
they gather at the Workshop in their own classrooms.

For further information about this grant, contact ALAN Executive Secretary
Gary Salvner at gsalvner@ysu.edu or 330-941-3414. Information about the ALAN
Workshop may be obtained from the ALAN Website—http://www.alan-ya.org/.
Information about the NCTE Convention may be obtained on the NCTE Website—http://www.ncte.org/–or
by writing to NCTE Headquarters at 1111 West Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801.

Click Here for the Gallo Grant form.