Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events July 2024

Funding

Meeting the Basic Needs of Crime Victims in Underserved Communities

Office for Victims of Crime

OVC is seeking applications from organizations that provide culturally responsive services to crime victims and survivors from communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization. These victims often face barriers that prevent them from accessing critical services. Unaddressed needs can lead to long-term physical, emotional, social, and financial problems for survivors. Through this funding opportunity, OVC will support services for victims by organizations that understand the complex, multilayered, culturally specific challenges that crime victims from these communities face when attempting to access assistance and services. Organizations could use this grant to address these services related to crime victimization:

• a shortage of rental units that provide temporary or transitional housing for victims;
• inadequate funding for food (e.g., grocery gift cards, setting up/stocking a free food pantry);
• lack of funds for bus fare, subway or metro fare, ride-sharing expenses, and other transportation-related services;
• a need for clothing for adults, infants, children, or teens;
• covering expenses for job-readiness such as appropriate work attire, or fees for apprenticeship programs or skill building courses;
• additional staff or staff time to provide and oversee these services; or
• other challenges related to meeting the basic needs of underserved victims.

Special consideration will be given to organizations that have not received OVC funding since 2020.

Deadline: Grants.Gov: July 29, 2024; JustGrants: August 1, 2024 | Learn more >>

Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP)

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 

The purpose of the YHDP is to implement projects that demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless youth age 24 and under can dramatically reduce youth homelessness. HUD will select up to 25 communities to participate in YDHP to develop and execute a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness. Only Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicants may apply for a community under this NOFO. Communities represented by the CoC Collaborative Applicant must include a Youth Action Board (YAB), the local or state public child welfare agency, and a broad array of other partners. The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth. In order to effectively implement a system that addresses the needs of youth experiencing homelessness, CoCs must understand the subgroups of unaccompanied youth and incorporate those understandings into the YHDP CCP and awarded projects. This will require CoCs to use innovative practices to design better projects and strong comprehensive plans to prevent and end youth homelessness.

Deadline: August 29, 2024 | Learn more >>

Microsoft Solutions Grant

Leverage $2,000 (USD) Azure services credits per year and access the complete portfolio of Azure products and cloud services -including Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and more. You don't have to decide on your solutions today, you can choose once you've been officially approved. Learn more>>

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 >>

Free Webinars and Trainings

Youth Voice Series
National Mentoring Resource Center
July 30, August 27, September 24, 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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National Wellbeing & Resilience Alliance Conference
The Spark Initiative
October 9-11, 2024
Tampa, FL
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State of the Movement 
A Way Home America
October 23-24, 2024
Dallas, TX
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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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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

• Grant & Development Manager | New Beginnings | Lewiston, ME
• Youth Alumni Program Coordinator & Others | Los Angeles LGBT Center | Los Angeles, CA
• Operations Coordinator & Others | Brighton Center | Covington, KY
• Program Specialist | Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region | Santa Fe, NM
• Street Outreach Worker & Others | CAPTAIN Community Health Services | Saratoga Springs, NY