Via the ARRL: East Coast Amateur Radio Service Offers Support for Amateur Radio-Related Initiatives

The East Coast Amateur Radio Service, Inc (ECARS) has announced that it can provide financial support for worthy amateur radio related initiatives.

“The focus of this grant program is to support amateur radio and other non-profit organizations with programs to educate, license and otherwise support amateur radio activities — with emphasis on youth-based projects,” ECARS said.

ECARS routinely supports scholarship grants through the ARRL Foundation and has awarded other grants to organizations for youth programs or for emergency assistance. “We actually get far fewer requests than we have expected from this program,” said ECARS President Vic Klein, WA4THR.

Information on applying for an ECARS grant is on the organization’s website. Preference is also given to requests that benefit the ECARS service area and to groups IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations.

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