The Highlights Foundation to Award More Than $75,000 in Scholarships in 2022 Via a New Application ProcessFebruary 23, 2022 | Highlights Foundation NewsUpdate 3/14/22: The scholarship application period for 2022 is now closed. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, ...
Highlights Foundation to Receive Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Rescue PlanFebruary 5, 2022 | Highlights Foundation NewsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2022 The grant will support Essential Conversations programming to get ...
16 Muslim Storytellers Selected for Two-Year Children’s Literature Fellowship ProgramSeptember 14, 2021 | Essential Conversations, Highlights Foundation News, Muslim StorytellersFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2021 16 Muslim Storytellers Selected for Two-Year Children’s Literature ...
Applications Open for Fellowship to Foster Authenticity and Progress in Muslim Storytelling & Children’s PublishingJune 15, 2021 | Highlights Foundation News, Muslim StorytellersUpdate July 16, 2021 The application period has now closed. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2021 Muslims from all ...
Amplify Black Stories Announces 24-Storyteller CohortApril 26, 2021 | Black Voices, Highlights Foundation NewsEdited to correct spelling of sponsor Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, ...
Celebrating Our Faculty on 2020’s Best ListsDecember 31, 2020 | Asian American Voices, Black Voices, Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News, Latinx Voices, LGBTQIA+ Voices, Nonfiction, Novels, Picture BooksWe thought that a great way to close out our 2020 blog would be to celebrate some of our faculty whose books have ...
The Highlights Foundation Commitment to Sustainable EnergySeptember 25, 2020 | Highlights Foundation NewsThe Highlights Foundation has a big goal: to transform the energy management of our Retreat Center and reach ...
Remembering Peter Jacobi and Clay WintersJanuary 9, 2020 | Highlights Foundation NewsDear Highlights Foundation Friends, We lost two great friends recently: Clay Winters and Peter Jacobi. Both were ...
A Special Message from Meg Medina: Support the Diversity FellowshipDecember 22, 2019 | Highlights Foundation News, Latinx VoicesDear book friends! I’m writing today about supporting the Diversity Fellowship in Children’s Literature at the ...By: Meg Medina
Diversity in Children’s Literature Fellow Pamela Courtney Talks About Her WhySeptember 16, 2019 | Black Voices, Community Good News, Highlights Foundation NewsI'm a teacher who writes and a writer who teaches."—Pamela Courtney We asked Pamela, a 2019-2020 Diversity ...
Diversity in Children’s Literature Fellow Jacqueline Barnes Talks About Her WhySeptember 11, 2019 | Black Voices, Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News“The young person I am creating for is a younger version of me--a black girl that's into black girl ...
Diversity in Children’s Literature Fellow Narmeen Lakhani Talks About Her WhySeptember 11, 2019 | Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News, Muslim Storytellers“When I am writing for kids I am imagining someone who like myself has felt that they were at the intersection of ...