SAUGUS ?The Saugus Anti-Drug Coalition is looking for help in netting a $25,000 grant from State Farm Insurance after being picked as a finalist for the award.Dawn Gaffney, co-founder of the Saugus Anti-Drug Coalition, said the group was one of more than 3,000 non-profits from across the country to apply last month, and were recently picked along with 200 other groups to be in the running for the $25,000 Neighborhood Assist grant.Gaffney said 40 groups will be chosen based on votes.?They have a youth advisory board that goes through those 3,000 and what they do is, after they pick the top 200, they put them on Facebook and people can go online and vote,” said Gaffney. “The top 40 with the most votes get grants for $25,000.”The voting starts today and the link can be found on the Saugus-Anti Drug Coalition?s Facebook page and on its website at saugusantidrug.org.Gaffney said voting lasts for 17 days and people can vote up to 10 times per day every day.The State Farm Neighborhood Assist grant is a youth-led program that “empowers people to identify issues in their community,” according to a press release from State Farm. The program connects them with a local nonprofit that can help solve the problem by providing an opportunity to receive one of 40 $25,000 grants.?The beauty of Neighborhood Assist is that it places decision-making power directly in the hands of the public,” said Mary Crego, State Farm Senior Vice President. “We hope the 2013 Neighborhood Assist program is able to increase last year?s widespread positive impact on U.S. and Canadian communities.”Jeannie Meredith, who also helped start the Saugus Anti-Drug Coalition, said if they win, the money will go toward a “comprehensive curriculum program” for grades K through 12.?We?d like to see K through 12, but if we can only do fourth through eighth or ninth grade and target those ages where you can really head it off,” she said. “We have to work out those details with the school. It depends on what the School Committee and superintendent want to do ? We?d really like to do a lot of different things. We?d like to do more throughout the whole year, and involve the elementary schools and the middle school more.”Some of the winning causes from last year include helping an animal shelter replace its rescue van, assisting organizations that support the homeless and impoverished, and six neighborhood park improvements, said the release. More than 65 percent of the causes directly impacted youth.The cause that received the most votes in 2012 was Skate for Change, a group of skateboarders that help the low-income and homeless in Lincoln, Neb., according to State Farm.The Saugus Anti-Drug Coalition will be meeting on April 8 at the Youth and Recreation Center at 7 p.m.Matt Tempesta may be reached at [email protected]