Fund Your Gap Year: Finding the Money to Travel

If you’re wondering how you’ll possibly find the money you need to fund your Gap Year, this post is the place to start. It’s an excerpt from the fantastic and FREE GapYear30 planning resource, provided by BootsnAll. There’s a parent’s version too! When considering fundraising for your Gap Year, take a three pronged approach to[…]

Gap Year Safety: How to Stay Alive on Your Trip

I attended the near drowning of a Gap Year traveler one week ago today. It was, by far, the most terrifying experience of my life to date and I’m extraordinarily glad to have been present, and that he is alive. While travel is, statistically speaking, a safe endeavor, deaths do occur abroad; just like they[…]

Funding Your Child’s Gap Year: Should You Help?

It’s likely that among your first concerns, when your young person brought up the idea of traveling for a year, was cost. I know it is always my first question when my teens have approached us with the dream of a summer hopping trains across Europe, or buses across America, or crossing the Mediterranean and[…]

Announcing the Travel Access Project Grant for Gap Year Travel

$3000 USD for Gap Year Travel 2017-18 Apply Here! Do you have a dream of taking a Gap Year to travel and learn? Do you want to take a break between high school and college to experience the real world, expand your skill set and gain clarity towards your career path forward? Perhaps you’re just[…]

Scholarships, Grants & Funding for Gap Years

Planning a Gap Year but worried about money? Are you interested in a Gap Year but want to know how to fund it? Want to get more information about scholarships and grants for Gap Years? To find out how you can fund your Gap Year, watch this show “Scholarships, Grants, & Funding for Gap Years!”[…]

The Arts & Adventure Education: A Dance Gap Year

It no longer comes as a surprise that art funding and program implementation has become less of a focus in secondary schools. This means that many of our youth, especially those underrepresented will either receive little to no exposure of the arts. Meanwhile, the decline of artist jobs can make any student think twice about[…]