The California Department of Education (CDE) will be conducting competitions for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) and 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) after school funds, beginning this fall. To support this effort, the CDE is now seeking 21st Century Grant Competition Reviewers.

The 21^st Century grant application Grant Competition Reviewers should have expertise in providing effective academic enrichment, youth development, and related services to students. The CDE will select Grant Competition Reviewers based on their professional and personal experience as it relates to the goal, purpose, and needs of the 21^st CCLC and ASSETs Programs. Applicants will not be selected if they are submitting a 21^st Century grant application, or are a representative of a grant applicant that has applied for the current 2022–23 cycle. Potential Grant Competition Reviewers must also certify that neither they, nor any member of their immediate family, has a material, personal, or financial relationship in any application under consideration by the 21^st CCLC and/or ASSETs for this application period.

Grant Competition Reviewers must be available to attend a mandatory virtual one-day training on    November 16, 2021. After the training, grant applications will be made available for review from November 16, 2021, through March 16, 2022. The CDE will pay a stipend for the Grant Competition Reviewers reading 21^st Century applications at a rate of $50 per application. All CDE employees are exempt from receiving a stipend.

Reader Applications are due no later than October 1, 2021.

Click here to apply: Reader Information and Application

If you have any questions, please contact the Expanded Learning Division at the RFA mailbox at 21stCCLCandASSETSRFA@cde.ca.gov

Expanded Learning Division

California Department of Education

1430 N Street, Suite 3400

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: 916- 319-0923