Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events August 2024

Funding

The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation Grants

The foundation gives grants to organizations, initiatives, and researchers who are on the cutting edge of advancing economic education. It supports new ideas and approaches to helping people more fully understand how economics can play a role in making their lives, their communities, and the world a more prosperous place.

Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 10, 2024 | Learn more >>

Youth as Solutions Grants

National Youth Leadership Council 

Youth as Solutions (YaS) is creating a generation of citizens who are passionate about making a positive impact in their schools and communities. Through our self-paced service-learning program, Leadership Teams - consisting of at least two young people in grades 6-12 and an adult mentor from a public school, school district, government entity, or nonprofit - positively impact their communities by addressing one of these impact areas: education equity, community health, environmental justice, and civics and democracy.

Deadline: September 13, 2024 | Learn more >>

YouthBuild Grants

Department of Labor

DOL will award grants through a competitive process to organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to opportunity youth, ages 16 to 24, who are performing meaningful work and service to their communities. The YouthBuild program model prepares participants for quality jobs in a variety of careers, in diverse industry sectors, particularly in infrastructure sectors, and includes wrap-around services such as mentoring, trauma-informed care, personal counseling, transportation supports, and employment preparation - all key strategies for addressing violence in communities. YouthBuild applicants must include construction skills training and may include occupational skills training in other in-demand industries. This expansion into additional in-demand industries is the Construction Plus component. DOL will fund approximately 75 projects across the country. Individual grants will range from $700,000 to $1.5 million and require a 25 percent match from applicants, using sources other than federal funding. The grant period of performance for this FOA is 40 months, including a four-month planning period and a twelve-month follow-up period.

Deadline: September 16, 2024 | Learn more >>

The Herb Block Defending Basic Freedoms Grants

The Foundation is committed to defending 
basic freedoms, combating all forms of 
discrimination and prejudice and improving the condition of the poor and underprivileged. The Defending Basic Freedoms program helps safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in our Bill of Rights, to help eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and to assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public.

Deadline: Letter of Inquiry due on October 2, 2024 | Learn more >>

AmeriCorps State and National Grants

AmeriCorps improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. AmeriCorps brings people together to tackle some of the country's most pressing challenges through national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps members serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities and those serving. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is a person who does community service through AmeriCorps. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits. After successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.

Deadline: January 24, 2025 | Learn more >>

Free Webinars and Trainings

Accessing Remaining COVID Funds Before it's Too Late
NonProfit Times
August 28, 2024
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Criminal Background Barriers to Foster Home Licensing for Kin Caregivers
Generations United
August 29, 2024
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Youth Voice Series
National Mentoring Resource Center
September 24, 2024
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McKinney-Vento School Selection Rights
National Center for Homeless Education
September 5, 2024
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Blocking the Backlash: The Positive Impact of DEI in Nonprofit Organizations
Building Movement Project
September 10, 2024
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Nonprofit Civic Infrastructure: A Recipe for a Thriving Nation
Annual Symposium on Public Policy for Nonprofits
September 30, 2024
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Wellness & Resilience in Mentoring
MENTOR
October 17, 2024
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Sustained Recovery: Don't Make Aftercare an Afterthought
Center for Children and Family Futures
November 12, 2024
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Events

2024 Youth Days in Washington D.C.
National Youth Employment Coalition
September 12-13, 2024
Washington, D.C.
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Breaking Barriers: Overcoming Challenges with Evidence-Based Practices
Empower Community Care
October 9-10, 2024
Virtual Summit
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State of the Movement
A Way Home America
October 23-24, 2024
Dallas, TX
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National Wellbeing & Resilience Alliance Conference
The Spark Initiative
October 9-11, 2024
Tampa, FL
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2024 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Conference
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
October 16-17, 2024
Seattle, WA
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National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education
National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement
October 21-25, 2024
Denver, CO
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OJJDP National Conference on Youth Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
November 19-21, 2024
Washington, DC
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RHY National Grantee Training
Runaway and Homeless Youth Training, Technical Assistance, and Capacity Building Center
December 4-6, 2024
Atlanta, GA
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Jobs

• Program Specialist - Victim Services & Others | PREVAIL | Stockton, CA
• Clinical Social Worker/Therapist II - Family Partners | Children's Aid Society of Alabama | Birmingham, AL
• Big Futures Match Support Specialist | Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana | Fort Wayne, IN
• Resource Navigator & Others | Urban Peak | Denver, CO
• Transitional Living Youth Case Manager & Others | Listening Ear Crisis Center | Mt. Pleasant, MI