National Center for Safe Routes to School Announces 26 Spring 2012 Mini-grant Recipients
**To view this announcement on our [their] website, visit <a href="http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/about-us/newsroom/spring-2012-mini-grants">www.saferoutesinfo.org/about-us/newsroom/spring-2012-mini-grants</a>;.(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) December 21, 2011 — The National Center for Safe Routes to School announced today the selection of its newest mini-grant recipients — a program made possible through the federal Safe Routes to School program. Twenty-six schools, municipalities and organizations from across the country will receive $1,000 to support projects designed to encourage students and their families to safely walk and bicycle to school. The mini-grant activities, many of which are driven by students, will occur during the spring semester of the 2011-2012 school year.
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MARYLAND
--Rodgers Forge Community, Inc. (Baltimore, Md.) will work with Rodgers Forge Elementary School to produce and distribute educational materials that encourage parents to allow their children to participate in walking school buses, to volunteer in walking school buses, and to organize "bike trains" for parents and children in the spring. These education and encouragement materials will also target increases in driver awareness, such as the need for drivers to look both ways for pedestrians and cyclists who may be coming from an opposite direction. Lawn signs will be posted at key locations throughout the community to enhance driver awareness and promote caution for children walking and biking to school. A new bike rack will also be installed in order to accommodate a recent increased demand for bicycle storage.
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