Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events December 2024

Funding

Youth Stop Hunger Innovation Grants

Youth Service America

To encourage youth to devise and implement sustainable hunger-relief programs in their community, we're partnering with the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation to launch the new Youth Stop Hunger Innovation Grant! Twelve $2,500 grants will be awarded to cohorts of youth in the United States between the ages of 5 and 25 years old who are looking to fight hunger in their community by addressing its root causes, while also engaging other youth in volunteerism.

Deadline: December 8, 2024 | Learn more >>

GEICO Philanthropic Foundation

Through community funding, the foundation strives to support organizations that provide programs and resources to help strengthen diverse communities across the country. A strong community is one where every individual has access to educational and employment opportunities, can thrive in safe communities, and has the resources to overcome challenges. The Foundation's focus areas include:

• Educating: focusing on educational resources and opportunities supporting diverse communities across the country, as well as groups that focus on STEM, early childhood learning, and safety;
• Engaging the community: supporting organizations through volunteer and outreach efforts related to financial literacy, food insecurity, environmental conversation, animal welfare and advocacy, and health and wellness;
• Promoting Equity: building meaningful relationships with community organizations that support equity, justice, diversity, and inclusion.

Deadline: December 31, 2024 | Learn more >>

Initiative for Students and Youth

JAMS Foundation/Association for Conflict Resolution

This funding supports conflict prevention and dispute resolution programs for K-12 students and for adults working with youth populations in ways that directly transfer Conflict Resolution Education skills from adults to youth. Each year, the Association for Conflict Resolution and the JAMS Foundation identify a specific subject area seeking to address otherwise unresolved issues and unmet needs of both general and target youth populations, based on current research and feedback from leaders and stakeholders in the dispute resolution and education fields. Funding contexts for selected subject areas will vary, and may include community-based organizations, alternative education settings (online education, charter schools), after-school programs, court- or juvenile justice-connected programs, as well as programs operating in traditional K-12 school districts.

Deadline: January 10, 2025 (Initial Project Description) | Learn more >>

AmeriCorps 

AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, improves lives, strengthens communities and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. AmeriCorps provides opportunities for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to serve their communities and country. More than two million Americans will serve through these programs to support thousands of national and community nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, schools, and local agencies to meet community needs in economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, veteran and military families and other critical areas. National and community service programs work closely with partner organizations to broaden, deepen and strengthen the ability of citizens to contribute to their communities and our nation.

Learn More >> | Deadlines:

• State and National Grants - January 23, 2025
• VISTA Request for Concept Papers - March 27, 2025
• National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) Traditional - December 31, 2025
• National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) Traditional Disaster Response - December 31, 2025
• National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) FEMA Corps - December 31, 2025

Peace Development Fund

The Peace Development Fund makes grants to community-based organizations working for social justice. It believes that the change in values needed to establish a more just and peaceful world can come about only if it is strongly rooted in local communities that value the importance of building movements to create systemic social change. These are communities that view everyone, especially young people, as a vital force in the transformation of society. We recognize young people's ability to reshape our society, not only politically, but also spiritually and culturally. The Peace Development Fund is committed to supporting organizations and projects that recognize that peace will never be sustained unless it is based on justice. We understand peace to be a consequence of equitable relationships-with our fellow human beings and with the natural environment of which we are a part and on which we depend. Funding supports:

• Organizing to shift power
• Working to build a movement
• Dismantling oppression
• Creating new structures

Deadline: January 31, 2025 | Learn more >>

Sky Ranch Foundation

The Foundation is committed to giving at-risk youth a second chance by identifying and offering grants to efficient and effective programs focused on improving the quality of help available to these youth. Its funding interests provide preference to organizations that:

• Serve troubled youth between the ages of 11-18, with a priority for programs that focus on youth between the ages of 11-15
• Focus on preventing youth involvement in the criminal justice system, or provide long-term rehabilitation in a residential or alternative setting.
• Provide comprehensive support services to youth that may include education, job training, enrichment activities, counseling and case management.

The Foundation provides general operating, capital and capacity-building. The typical grant size will be between $5,000 and $40,000. Grants outside of this range will be considered at the discretion of the Directors.

Deadline: January 31, 2025 | Learn more >>

Looking Out Foundation

The Looking Out Foundation (LOF) amplifies the impact of music by empowering those without a voice. From neighborhood to nation, we help fund causes and organizations that often go unnoticed. Founded in 2008 by multiple Grammy winning artists Brandi Carlile, Tim and Phil Hanseroth, we band together with fans, non-profits and female LGBTQ+ owned businesses to translate voices of song to voices of action. Program interests include, but are not limited to: disadvantaged youth, public health, women, the environment, the arts, the hungry and the homeless. The average grant allocation is between $1,000 and $5,000.

Deadline: February 1, 2025 | Learn more >>

Student Support Service: Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Partnership Grants

Department of Education

The GEAR UP program encourages eligible entities to provide support, and maintain a commitment, to eligible students from low-income backgrounds, including students with disabilities, to assist the students in obtaining a secondary school diploma (or its recognized equivalent) and to prepare for and succeed in postsecondary education. An eligible applicant is a partnership consisting of one or more local educational agencies (LEA) and one or more degree-granting institutions of higher education (IHE), which may include not less than two other community organizations or entities, such as businesses, professional organizations, State agencies, institutions or agencies sponsoring programs authorized under subpart 4 or other public or private agencies or organizations. Applications must be submitted by an eligible entity (LEA or IHE) and the partnership must consist of at least an LEA and IHE.

Deadline: February 3, 2025 | Learn more >>

Bringing Youth Outdoors Together and Environmental Steward Program

Department of Interior National Park Service

This Program focuses on youth development, recreation, service, social and environmental responsibility, and healthy living that emphasizes the value and significance of natural and cultural resources in nearby parks and communities. The program provides young people--particularly youth from underserved communities in urban, rural, military, and native settings -- with outdoor experiences and excursions to their local national park. The program opportunities offered should build confidence in participants to engage with national parks, public lands, and waterways throughout their lifetime. Types of programming opportunities offered should fit into four main focus areas for children and youth up to age 18 years old: recreation, education, volunteerism, and career exploration.

Deadline: February 8, 2025 | Learn more >>

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP)

Department of Health and Human Services

The program goal is to support community-based projects to improve access to one or more of the following in underserved communities: children’s behavioral health screening and referrals, children’s immunizations, and adolescents’ well-visits. The program objectives to be accomplished during the period of performance include: 

• Implement an evidence-informed or evidence-based preventive clinical or public health community-based project with at least one measurable outcome that aligns with your selected child health topic. 
• Build or strengthen at least three partnerships with maternal and child health (MCH) programs, including one partnership with a HRSA Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant recipient. 
• Engage people with lived experience in the advisory board and project activities. 
• Develop a sustainability plan to support MCH population health improvements that includes at least three community partnerships and at least one funding strategy. 

Deadline: March 17, 2025 | Learn more >>

Challenge America

National Endowment for the Arts 

Challenge America supports arts projects from a range of arts and non-arts organizations in artistic disciplines that include Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Film & Media Arts, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts. Projects must extend the reach of the arts to underserved groups/communities, those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited relative to: geography, ethnicity, economic status, or disability. At least one of these characteristics must be evident in the proposed project. Project activities may include, but are not limited to:

• Arts programming, including the commissioning or presentation of artists or artwork;
• Audience and community engagement, including educational activities;
• Marketing and promotional activities; and
• Organizational planning.

Deadline: April 24, 2025 | Learn more >>

Free Webinars and Trainings

Conversations with Youth: Youth Townhall Series
MENTOR
December 19, 2024
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Getting Your Grants Program "AI" Ready
GrantStation
January 6, 2025
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10th Anniversary of the OVC "Faces of Human Trafficking" Video Series
Office of Victims of Crime
January 8, 2025
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National Day of Racial Healing
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
January 21, 2025
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Events

Innovation Summit On Youth Advocacy & Direct Cash Transfers
Point Source Youth
January 14-15, 2025
Portland, OR
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National Mentoring Summit
MENTOR
January 29-31, 2025
Washington, DC
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Sharing Power: Building Inclusive Communities
Freedom Network USA
March 26-27, 2025
Virtual
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Inspiring Change, Igniting Progress
Child Welfare League of America
April 9-11, 2025
Washington, DC
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Supportive Housing Summit
Corporation for Supportive Housing
April 23-25, 2025
Chicago, IL
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Global Intergenerational Conference
Generations United
June 25-27, 2025
Louisville, KY
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Jobs

• Director of Individual Giving & Others | The Bridge for Youth | Minneapolis, MN
• Community Education and Engagement Specialist & Others | Children's Aid Society of Alabama | Birmingham, AL
• Finance Manager | Covenant House Michigan | Detroit, MI
• Deputy Director & Others | Urban Peak | Denver, CO
• Housing Stabilization Coordinator | Los Angeles LGBT Center | Los Angeles, CA