Funding, Job, & Event Highlights for Youth Service Providers
Funding Opportunities
Marion Family Foundation
The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations whose work strengthens communities and improves quality of life. It supports a wide range of organizations working in areas such as youth and family services, healthcare, education, and the arts. It is particularly interested in projects and programs that demonstrate strong local impact and create meaningful, lasting change within the communities they serve. Grantmaking is guided by a commitment to thoughtful, responsive philanthropy and to supporting organizations whose work aligns with the foundation’s values.
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Karma for Cara Foundation's Microgrant
Karma for Cara Foundation (K4C) empowers youth to repair our world. We support developing citizen leaders at a very early age, giving them the foundation to take active roles in community-building through volunteerism and service. Using the power of storytelling and an easily understood real-life example, K4C helps children as young as five recognize their ability to positively impact the world. Students 18 years of age and under may apply for funds between $250 and $1,000 to complete service projects in their communities throughout the United States. Grants fund the nuts and bolts of projects, not including stipends, facility rentals, transportation costs, or gift cards and event prize money.
Deadline: July 1, 2026
Allen Foundation's Grants for Nutrition Projects
The Allen Foundation supports nonprofit projects releated to nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research. It's funding priorities include:
- Supporting programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
- Assisting in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices.
- Encouraging the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits.
- In limited situations to make grants to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems.
Deadline: July 15, 2026
American Legion Child Well-Being Foundation
The Foundation contributes to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children and youth by aiding progress in the field of child welfare through research, studies, surveys, projects, or by supporting programs and activities benefiting the welfare of children and youth. A program is considered an activity or set of activities that seek to achieve or complete specific objectives within a certain time. Research is considered an investigation or experimentation aimed at discovering and interpreting facts or revisions of accepted philosophies to create new or revised theories.
Deadline: July 15, 2026
Free Webinars and Trainings
Why Nonprofits Need Directors and Officers Insurance (Live Q&A)
Blue Avocado
June 11, 2026
Volunteering Redefined: Learning Community Reflection and Future Goal Setting
Partnership for Student Success
June 11, 2026
How to be the Courageous Leader Your Mission Needs Today
Nonprofit Risk Management Center
June 16, 2026
Partnering for Possibility: Smooth Transitions to College and Career for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
National Center for Homeless Education
June 17, 2026
Upcoming Events
Strategic Foresight for Nonprofit Leaders
Stanford Social Innovation Review
June 2, 2026
Virtual
National Independent Living Conference
Daniel
August 18-21, 2026
Reston, VA
Partnership for Student Success Summit
Partnership for Student Success
October 6, 2026
Washington, DC
2026 National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness
Point Source Youth
October 14-15, 2026
Baltimore, MD
National Mentoring Summit
MENTOR
January 28-29, 2027
Washington, DC
Job Openings
- Director of Grant Development | CEDARS | Lincoln, NE
- Foster Care Caseworker + More | YSB | Rockford, IL
- Vice President of Accounting and Controls + More | YMCA of San Diego County | San Diego, CA
- Director of Community Health & Outreach + More | The Night Ministry | Chicago, IL
- Family Peer Advocate + More | Saint Anne Institute | Albany, NY
