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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Coming
Up Taller Awards Program Seeks Nominations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:black'>Columbia, S.C. – The Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS) in partnership with the President’s Committee on the Arts
and the Humanities (PCAH) invites nominations for the 2010 Coming Up Taller
Awards. The program, now in its thirteenth year, honors excellence in
afterschool, out-of-school, and summer arts and humanities programs for
underserved children and youth. Other program partners include the National
Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=copy><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Each year, the Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and reward
exceptional programs that cultivate character development and life skills in
young people. Award recipients receive $10,000 each, an individualized plaque,
and an invitation to attend the annual Coming Up Taller Leadership Enhancement
Conference in Washington, D.C. The Coming Up Taller Awards ceremony has
traditionally been held in the fall at the White House, with the awards
bestowed by the President’s Committee’s Honorary Chairman, First
Lady Michelle Obama.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>At the Coming Up Taller awards ceremony held at the White House
last month, Mrs. Obama called the Coming Up Taller awardees’ achievement
in the arts and humanities “a bridge to achievement in life.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>The deadline for nominations is Friday, January 29,
2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>For application information, visit </span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.cominguptaller.org"><span style='color:black'>www.cominguptaller.org</span></a><span
style='color:black'> or call (202) 682-5409.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Curtis
R. Rogers, Ed.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Communications
Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/">South Carolina State Library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>POB
11469, 1430 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>ph:803-734-8928
fax:803-734-8676<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Have
You Joined SCLA Yet for 2010? </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> If not, please do! The
Association needs you as an active member in 2010! Click on <a
href="http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership">http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership</a> and
join today. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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