Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events February 2023

Funding

Youth Service America’s Hershey Heartwarming Young Heroes
Youth Service America (YSA) is searching for Heartwarming Young Heroes with creative ideas to foster meaningful connections, promote inclusion, and teach empathy. With support from Hershey's Heartwarming Project, YSA will award up to $50,000 in grants for youth-led service projects and community-building activities during Global Youth Service Day (April 28-30). All youth ages 5-25 in the United States (including U.S. territories and military bases & DoD schools) and Canada are eligible to apply. 

Deadline: March 5, 2023 | Learn more >>

Third Wave’s Mobilize Power Fund
​Through the Mobilize Power Fund, Third Wave resources time-sensitive projects including community organizing and mobilization, healing justice work, conflict resolution, community accountability, transformative and restorative justice work, direct action, and more. This Fund prioritizes organizations that are led by young women of color (transgender and cisgender), and trans, queer, gender non conforming and intersex young people of color under 35, led by and for communities directly impacted by the issues they focus on, have an intersectional gender justice lens, and have a total organizational budget under $500k​. Groups do not need 501c3 of fiscal sponsor status to apply.

Deadline: March 7, 2023 | Learn more >>

Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration Growth Opportunities
Through the Growth Opportunities grant program, the Department will introduce and prepare justice-involved youth and young adults for the world of work through placement into paid work experiences. These grants focus on youth and young adults most impacted by community violence, particularly in areas of concentrated crime and poverty as well as communities that have recently experienced significant unrest. This program contributes to the Biden-Harris Administration’s comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and other violent crime, in part, with preventative measures that are proven to reduce violent crime and support public safety and community well-being. The goals of the grant are to: help youth and young adults to increase their conflict resolution skills and develop strategies to prevent and avoid violence; introduce and prepare youth for the world of work; help youth identify career interests, attain relevant skills and gain work experience; and provide income to youth, to start them on the path of earning living wages and obtaining high quality jobs and careers.

Deadline: March 10, 2023 | Learn more >>

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals
The purpose of this program is to provide comprehensive, coordinated, and evidence-based treatment and services for individuals, including youth, and families with substance use disorders (SUDs) or co-occurring mental health conditions and SUDs (CODs) who are experiencing homelessness. This program supports the development and/or expansion of the local implementation of a community infrastructure that integrates behavioral health treatment, peer support, recovery support services, and linkages to sustainable permanent housing. SAMHSA funds will support three primary types of activities:

1. Behavioral health outreach, treatment and recovery-oriented services;
2. Coordination of housing and services to support the implementation and/or enhance long-term sustainability of integrated community systems that provide permanent housing and supportive services; and;
3. Efforts to engage and connect individuals with SUD or COD, who are experiencing homelessness to resources for health insurance, Medicaid, and mainstream benefits programs.

Deadline: March 21, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Violence Against Women’s Grants to Engage Men and Boys as Allies in the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls Program
Funds under this program must be used to develop and/or implement strategies that engage and mobilize men and boys at individual, group, relational, and societal levels to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or sex trafficking through one or more of the following purpose areas: 

1. Develop and/or implement programming to recruit and train men and boys to serve as role models, positive influencers, change agents, and/or mentors to address and prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or sex trafficking. 
2. Integrate education on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or sex trafficking into established support and/or enrichment programs (e.g., mentoring, youth services, sports, fraternal, faith-based, fatherhood, re-entry, and educational programs) to assist men and/or boys in developing healthy relationships, challenging social norms that support violence against women and girls, becoming active bystanders, and understanding the intersection of the above crimes with other types of related violence (e.g., gang initiation, gun violence). 
3. Develop and implement a train-the-trainer program for community organizations or programs, and/or governmental agencies or programs, to incorporate education and/ or training into their existing work with male clients to prevent violence against women and girls.

Deadline: Grants.Gov: March 24, 2023; JustGrants: March 28, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Violence Against Women’s Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program
This Program supports comprehensive, community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking. Applicants may apply for funding under only one of the following purpose areas: 

1. Providing services and Training to Address Children Exposed to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking (within ages 0-10).
2. Creating Safer Communities for Youth: Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, and Response Services for Youth Impacted by Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking (within ages 11-24). 
3. Providing School-Based Services: Prevention, Intervention, and Response to Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking (within ages 5-19). 

Deadline: Grants.Gov: March 24, 2023; JustGrants: March 28, 2023 | Learn more >>

Department of Justice’s Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes
The Second Chance Act (SCA) of 2007, reauthorized by the First Step Act of 2018, provides a comprehensive response to assist in the transition individuals make from prison, jail, or juvenile residential facilities to their communities so that the transition is more successful and promotes public safety. SCA's reentry-focused grant funding is designed to help communities develop and implement comprehensive and collaborative strategies that address the challenges posed by reentry and recidivism reduction. “Reentry” is not a specific program but rather an ongoing process that starts from the moment an individual is initially incarcerated and continues throughout that individual’s transition from incarceration and reintegration into the community. With this solicitation, BJA seeks to improve educational and employment programs that serve individuals during incarceration and throughout their period of reentry into the community. The Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes Program promotes an evidence-based and data-informed approach that will provide meaningful opportunities, interrupt the cycle of unemployment, improve economic mobility, and promote reentry success for formerly incarcerated adults.

Deadline: Grants.Gov: March 28, 2023; JustGrants: April 4, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Violence Against Women’s Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program 
This program supports nonprofit organizations that focus primarily on culturally specific communities and have experience in the area of sexual assault or who partner with an organization having such expertise. The goal of the SAS Culturally Specific Program is to establish, maintain, and expand sustainable, culturally appropriate services that address the unique needs and challenges of victims of sexual assault from culturally specific communities.  Funds under this program must be used to support the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of culturally specific intervention and related assistance for victims of sexual assault. Such intervention and related assistance may include: 

1. 24-hour hotline services providing crisis intervention services and referral.
2. Accompaniment and advocacy through medical, criminal justice, and social support systems, including medical facilities, police, and court proceedings. 
3. Crisis intervention, short-term individual and group support services, direct payments and comprehensive service coordination and supervision to assist sexual assault victims and family or household members. 
4. Information and referral to assist the sexual assault victim and family or household members. 
5. Community-based, culturally specific services and support mechanisms, including outreach activities for underserved communities. 
6. Development and distribution of materials on issues related to the services described above. 

Deadline: Grants.Gov: March 31, 2023; JustGrants: April 4, 2023 | Learn more >>

Gamma Mu Foundation’s Funds Promote Health for the LGBT Community
The Foundation allocates resources in support of the following major goals:

• ensuring the ongoing support of LGBTQ health[2] and social service organizations;
• enhancing the community through support of projects identifying the Foundation as a source of support for the LGBTQ community;
• increasing the grantee’s organizational capacity and resources to assure continued program viability after Foundation support terminates; and
• giving priority consideration to proposals that provide services in rural and/or underserved communities.

Grants are awarded in the following program areas:

• HIV/AIDS Services: These are services and programs benefiting individuals, caregivers, and families directly impacted by HIV/AIDS. It also includes HIV prevention and education programs.
• Community Services: These are services and programs that support LGBTQ sub-populations, e.g., youth, seniors, victims of domestic abuse, etc.
• Research and Public Education: These are services and programs aimed at helping to make the world a more hospitable place for people regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Deadline: March 31, 2023 | Learn more >>

Riley’s Way Foundation’s Call for Kindness
The Call For Kindness offers young changemakers the chance to participate in a dynamic Leadership Development Fellowship and win up to $3,000 in funding for a project of their own that inspires kindness and strengthens their local, national, or global communities. Answer the Call For Kindness by submitting a new or existing youth-led project rooted in Riley’s Way values–kindness, empathy, youth leadership, and inclusive community–that tackles anything from pressing equity and social justice issues to building meaningful connections in your school or community. In addition to our general category, we will select at least 10 projects specifically focused on our 2023 special topic: environmental justice to address the growing need for solutions in this critical space.

Deadline: April 2, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Arts Program for Justice-Involved Youth
OJJDP seeks to support high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors. This project seeks to support and strengthen collaborations between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems to develop, expand, or enhance effective interventions, which may involve emphasizing the unique capability of the art interventions to enhance protective factors and reduce risk factors that lead to justice system involvement, including individual characteristics, social influences, and community conditions.

Deadline: Grants.Gov: April 6, 2023; JustGrants: April 20, 2023 | Learn more >> 

Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Drug Free Communities - Support Program 
The purpose of this Support Program is to establish and strengthen collaborations to support
the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth,
ages 12-18.By statute, the DFC Support Program has two goals: 

1. Establish and strengthen the collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies, as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger).
2. Reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance use among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increases the risk of substance use and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance use.

This funding opportunity will fund applicants who have never received DFC funding.

Deadline: April 11, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
OJJDP will provide funding to communities to support girls age 17 and younger who are at risk of involvement and/or are involved in the juvenile justice system. Funding will support communities to develop, enhance, or expand early intervention programs and/or treatment services for girls involved in the juvenile justice system. The goal of this program is to reduce risk factors and promote protective factors for girls who come in contact with the juvenile justice system, and place them on a path toward success, stability, and long-term contribution to society."

Deadline: Grants.Gov: April 10, 2023; JustGrants: April 24, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Violence Against Women’s Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program 
The Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 added a new Rural Program purpose area on sexual assault forensic medical examination programs and added improving access to quality sexual assault examinations by trained health care providers to the program’s list of required strategies. Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes: 

1. To identify, assess, and appropriately respond to child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities, by encouraging collaboration among domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim service providers; law enforcement agencies; prosecutors; courts; other criminal justice service providers; human and community service providers; educational institutions; and health care providers, including sexual assault forensic examiners;
2. To establish and expand nonprofit, nongovernmental, State, tribal, territorial, and local government victim services in rural communities to child, youth, and adult victims;
3. To increase the safety and well-being of women and children in rural communities, by-- (A) dealing directly and immediately with domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking occurring in rural communities; and (B) creating and implementing strategies to increase awareness and prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking; and, 
4. To develop, expand, implement, and improve the quality of sexual assault forensic medical examination or sexual assault nurse examiner programs.

Deadline: Grants.Gov: April 11, 2023; JustGrants: April 18, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Violence Against Women’s Grants to Enhance Culturally Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program 
This program supports the maintenance and replication of existing successful community-based programs providing culturally specific services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, as well as the development of innovative culturally specific strategies to enhance access to services and resources for victims who face obstacles to accessing more traditional programs. Culturally specific services means community-based services that include culturally relevant and linguistically specific services and resources to culturally specific communities. Culturally specific means primarily directed toward racial and ethnic minority groups, defined as American Indians (including Alaska Natives, Eskimos, and Aleuts); Asian Americans; Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders; Blacks; and Hispanics.

Deadline: Grants.Gov: April 12, 2023; JustGrants: April 18, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Violence Against Women’s Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Program 
This program supports programs that provide 6-24 months of transitional housing with support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance, as a result of a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking; and for whom emergency shelter services or other crisis intervention services are unavailable or insufficient. Funds under this program must be used for one or more of the following purposes: 

1. Transitional housing, including funding for the operating expenses of newly developed or existing transitional housing;
2. Short-term housing assistance, including rental or utilities payments assistance and assistance with related expenses such as payment of security deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to transitional housing; and
3. Support services designed to enable a minor, an adult, or a dependent of such minor or adult, who is fleeing a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking to, (a) locate and secure permanent housing; (b) secure employment, including obtaining employment counseling, occupational training, job retention counseling, and counseling concerning re-entry into the workforce; and (c) integrate into a community by providing that minor, adult, or dependent with services, such as transportation, counseling, childcare services, case management, and other assistance.Participation in the support services shall be voluntary. 

Deadline: Grants.Gov: April 17, 2023; JustGrants: April 20, 2023 | Learn more >>

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Mentoring Program  
OJJDP seeks to fund national mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. This program supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth populations that are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. Mentoring services can be one-on-one, group, peer, or a combination of these types. Applicants must initiate mentoring services to youth who are 17 years old or younger at the time of admission to the program. Mentors must be an adult (age 18 or older), or in cases where peer mentoring models are being implemented, an older peer and under adult supervision. Funding is encouraged to support new mentoring matches, but can also support existing mentoring matches through program completion. Eligible applicants include national organizations, defined as organizations that have active affiliates or subawards in at least 45 states. 

Deadline: Grants.Gov: April 17, 2023; JustGrants: May 1, 2023 | Learn more >>

Administration for Children and Families’ Human Trafficking Youth Prevention Education (HTYPE) Demonstration Program
The HTYPE Demonstration Program’s goal is to fund local education agencies (LEAs) as prime recipients to partner with a non-profit to build the capacity of selected schools to provide skills-based human trafficking prevention education for educators, other staff, and students and to establish a Human Trafficking School Safety Protocol (HTSSP) that addresses the safety, security, and well-being of staff and students. Prime recipients will also have the option to implement skills-based human trafficking prevention education for caregivers. The HTYPE Demonstration Program is informed by the public health approach, which focuses on defining and monitoring the problem, identifying risk and protective factors, developing and testing prevention strategies, and ensuring widespread dissemination.

Deadline: April 27, 2023 | Learn more >>

Administration for Children and Families’ Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities Demonstration (VHT-NC) Program
Program’s goal is to directly fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain organizational and community capacity to deliver services to Native American (i.e., American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and/or Pacific Islanders) adults and minors who have experienced a severe form of human trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, through the provision of direct services, assistance, and referrals. The following activities are required under the VHT-NC Demonstration Program: 

1. Provision of comprehensive, culturally and linguistically responsive case management to Native Americans who have experienced sex and labor trafficking;
2. Outreach efforts to increase identification of Native Americans who have experienced sex and labor trafficking; and
3. Public awareness activities for the local community and organizations that may encounter individuals who have experienced sex and labor trafficking.

Deadline: June 30, 2023 | Learn more >>

Administration for Children and Families’ Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking Services and Outreach (DVHT-SO) Program
The goal of the DVHT-SO Program is to fund organizations that will build, expand, and sustain organizational and local capacity to deliver services to domestic victims of severe forms of human trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended through victim outreach, identification, case management, direct services, assistance, and referrals. Under the DVHT-SO Program, the following activities are required:

1. Comprehensive case management and services to adults and children who have experienced human trafficking; and 
2. Outreach to increase identification of adults and children who have experienced sex and labor trafficking.

The DVHT-SO Program is informed by a whole-family approach that focuses equally and intentionally on services and opportunities for individuals who have experienced human trafficking and their immediate family members living within their households. OTIP encourages community partnerships, meaningful engagement of individuals who have experienced human trafficking, and hiring qualified professionals from the communities being served under the DVHT-SO Program.Recipients will undergo a 12-month project implementation period to establish partnerships, on-board new staff, and develop a victim service protocol and a sustainability plan. Clients must receive direct services and assistance through the DVHT-SO Program during the 12-month project implementation period. In addition, there is a statutorily mandated 25 percent match (cash or in-kind) requirement for each budget period.

Deadline: June 30, 2023 | Learn more >>

Free Webinars and Trainings

Collaborating for Change: Addressing the Intersections Between Juvenile Justice and Youth Homelessness
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
March 7, 2023
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Show Me the Money: Evaluating Compensation Practices
National Human Services Assembly
March 7, 2023
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Is Your Organization Ready?
GrantStation
March 8, 2023
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Summer Youth Employment Program Planning Workshop
National Youth Employment Coalition 
March 16, 2023
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Healing Native American Youth Through Justice Reform
Annie E. Casey Foundation
March 16, 2023
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Events

All Kids are Our Kids: Inclusive Relationships Workshop
Search Institute
April 4-5, 2023
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Transforming Vision into Action: Annual Forum
National Youth Employment Coalition 
April 4-7, 2023
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Global Intergenerational Conference
Generations United
July 26-28, 2023
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Jobs

• Therapist & Healer Cohort 2023 | St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline (SQSH) | St. Louis, Mo
• Social Work Case Manager & Various Other Positions | YMCA Youth and Family Services (YMCA of San Diego County) | San Diego, CA
• Volunteer Coordinator/Event Planner & Various Other Positions | Hope Center for Children | Spartanburg, SC
• Youth Development Specialist & Various Other Positions | Family Resources | Pinellas Park, FL
• Intake Coordinator & Various Other Positions | Center for Family Services | Camden, NJ