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Grant Template
A sample grant template from a project completed by Search Institute with 4 rural Minnesota communities over 3 years.
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Sample Grant
An example grant that you can use to inform your grant writing process.
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Asset Approach to Community Change
Ideas, tips, and strategies for using asset building to engage youth and create change in your community.
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Taking Asset Building Personally: A Guide for Planning and Facilitating Study Groups
This guide will help you use the Taking Asset Building Personally workbook to encourage making a commitment to asset building within study groups.
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Tools for Mentoring Adolescents
Developed by the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota and Search Institute to support and strengthen relationships between mentors and mentees, these resources offer new ideas and insights for mentors and program staff to enhance relationships with teens, and also assist in recruiting more community members to support young people.
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Mentoring Tools (excerpted from Mentoring for Meaningful Results and used frequently by Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities):

What Is My Role as a Mentor?
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My Mentor’s Role in My Life
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Setting and Reaching Goals
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Supporting Your Child’s Relationship with a Mentor
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