In order to receive a grant, a high school must:

• Agree to start and document a business‐side development program;
• Demonstrate that its student newspaper is either struggling to exist or has ceased to exist;
• Have a high proportion of minority students OR be located in and draw its students from a rural area.

Applications for the Young Publishers grant are accepted on a rolling deadline and must be submitted at least five weeks before the program starts.

Applicants must have a mentor to help throughout the project. Applicants under 18 must also have their parent/guardian's permission to apply.

Specific targeted areas of research include:

• Biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological, lifestyle factors, environmental, social, economic, institutional and cultural and family influences;
• Studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and
• Studies that test and evaluate the comparative effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in traditional and nontraditional settings.