Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events May 2024
FUNDING
Mentoring for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Misuse
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth impacted by opioids and other substance misuse. This program supports mentoring programs to reduce juvenile delinquency, substance misuse, and problem and high-risk behaviors such as truancy.
This program supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth who are currently misusing or dependent on substances (including opioids, stimulants, and other licit or illicit substances), youth at risk for misusing substances, and youth with family members who are currently misusing or dependent on substances. Mentoring services can be one-to-one, group, peer, or a combination.
- Category 1: Mentoring Strategies for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Misuse (Project Sites)
- Eligible organizations are those that have been in existence for at least 3 years at the time of application, and have been directly delivering a structured mentoring program model.
- Category 2: Statewide and Regional Mentoring Strategies for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Misuse
Deadline: Grants.Gov: May 21, 2024; JustGrants: June 3, 2024 | Learn more >>
Arts Programs for Justice-Involved Youth
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support and strengthen collaborations between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems to develop, expand, or enhance promising and effective interventions that provide access to high-quality arts programs with and for current or previous justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors. OJJDP defines justice-involved youth as those participating in court-ordered diversion programs in detention, correctional, or other residential facilities, and/or are on probation due to a delinquency finding by juvenile court.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: May 21, 2024; JustGrants: June 4, 2024 | Learn more >>
Kentucky Fried Wishes
The KFC Foundation
The KFC Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that has provided over $31 million to support, empower and serve joy to more than 9,300 KFC restaurant employees, students and community non-profits across the U.S. The funder is looking for tangible, actionable projects that are feasible to accomplish with the $10,000 grant and will make an immediate impact in the community. Projects should be timely, with preference given to those that can be completed within a 6-12 month period.
Deadline: May 31, 2024 | Learn more >>
Native Youth and Culture Fund
First Nations
First Nations believes that Native youth represent the future of Native communities and that investing in youth and giving them a sense of place and tradition in the community ensures a future of bright and capable leaders. We seek programs that meet youth where they are, support them in accomplishing their goals and dreams as future leaders, and shape pathways that prepare them for an empowered adulthood guided by their cultures and families.
In 2002, First Nations launched the Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF) to support tribes and Native American-led organizations that work with Native youth through programs that provide learning, leadership building, and intergenerational mentoring. In 2024, through this Fund, two-year grants ranging from $20,000 to $60,000 will be awarded to Native youth programs and projects that focus on increasing youth leadership and providing opportunities for intergenerational transfer of knowledge.
Deadline: June 5, 2024 | Learn more >>
Basic Center Program
Administration for Children and Families
The Basic Center Program (BCP) provides temporary shelter and counseling services to youth who have left home without permission of their parents or guardians, have been forced to leave home, or other homeless youth who might otherwise end up in the law enforcement or in the child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems. BCPs work to establish or strengthen community-based programs that meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth and their families. BCP award recipients provide youth under 18 years of age with emergency shelter, food, clothing, counseling and referrals for health care. BCP award recipients can provide up to 21 days of shelter for youth and seek to reunite young people with their families, whenever possible, or to locate appropriate alternative placements. Additional services may include: street-based services; home-based services for families with youth at risk of separation from the family; drug abuse education and prevention services; and at the request of runaway and homeless youth, testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
Deadline: June 7, 2024 | Learn more >>
Street Outreach Program
Administration for Children and Families
The Street Outreach Program (SOP) provides street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to or are at risk of being subjected to sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of human trafficking in persons. These services, targeted in areas where street youth congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and providing them access to shelter as well as basic needs, including food, hygiene packages and information on a range of available services.
Deadline: June 7, 2024 | Learn more>>
Maternity Group Home Program
Administration for Children and Families
The Maternity Group Home (MGH) program provides safe, stable, and appropriate shelter for pregnant and/or parenting youth and young adults ages 16 to under 22 who have runaway or are experiencing homelessness, and their dependent child(ren), for 18 months and, under extenuating circumstances, up to 21 months. Service providers must accommodate for the needs and safety of the dependent children to include facility safety standards for infants and children on the premises. MGH services include, but are not limited to, parenting skills, child development, family budgeting, and health and nutrition education, in addition to the required services provided under the Transitional Living Program to help MGH youth and young adults realize improvements in four core outcome areas. The MGH combination of shelter and services is designed to promote long-term, economic independence to ensure the well-being of the youth and their child(ren).
Deadline: June 7, 2024 | Learn more >>
Transitional Living Program
Administration for Children and Families
The Transitional Living Program (TLP) provides safe, stable, and appropriate shelter for runaway and homeless youth ages 16 to under 22 for up to 18 months and, under extenuating circumstances, can be extended to 21 months. TLPs provide comprehensive services that supports the transition of homeless youth to self-sufficiency and stable, independent living. Through the provision of shelter and an array of comprehensive services, TLP youth will realize improvements in four core outcome areas (i.e., safe and stable housing, education/employment, permanent connections, and social and emotional well-being).
Deadline: June 7, 2024 | Learn more >>
Prevention Demonstration Program
Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF); Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF); Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) supports organizations and communities that work every day to end youth homelessness and adolescent pregnancy. FYSB's Division of Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) is accepting applications for the RHY Prevention Demonstration Program (RHY-PDP). RHY-PDP supports the design and delivery of community-based demonstration initiatives to prevent youth from experiencing homelessness. Through the development and coordination of partnerships with youth and young adult service providers, community organizations, and private and public agencies, the RHY-PDP will 1) identify young people at risk of experiencing homelessness; 2) design and develop a comprehensive community-based prevention plan to prevent youth homelessness; and 3) implement robust, holistic prevention services tailored for youth and young adults to respond to the diverse needs of youth who are at risk of homelessness and their families.
Deadline: June 7, 2024 | Learn more >>
Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support communities to assist girls age 17 and younger who are at risk of involvement and/or 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: May 28, 2024; JustGrants: June 10, 2024 | Learn more >>
Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based
Office of Justice Programs
With this solicitation, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based community-based violence intervention and prevention programs. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.
OJP's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is administering the opportunity, working in partnership with OJP's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). This collaborative approach will help ensure jurisdictions have access to expertise to address community violence that involves youth, young adults, and adults, both as the individuals responsible for perpetrating this violence and as those who are victims of it. Awards made under this solicitation may be managed by BJA, OJJDP, or OVC, depending on the nature of the project.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: May 30, 2024; JustGrants: June 10, 2024 | Learn more >>
Mentoring Programs for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to implement and deliver mentoring services to youth populations that are involved in the juvenile justice system (including those youth currently placed within a juvenile correctional facility or those who have recently been released from a juvenile facility). This program supports mentoring programs to reduce juvenile delinquency, truancy, drug abuse, victimization, and other problems and high-risk behaviors.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: May 28, 2024; JustGrants: June 11, 2024 | Learn more >>
Specialized Services to Abused Parents and their Children (Demonstration Projects)
Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services
The Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services program (OFVPS) Discretionary Grant Program under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA): Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Their Children (Demonstration Projects) will support fifty (50) demonstration projects. These projects will focus on expanding the capacity (of coalitions, local programs, and community-based programs) to prevent future family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence by appropriately addressing the needs of children exposed to domestic violence, and the potentially co-occurring impacts of child abuse and neglect.
Deadline: June 12, 2024 | Learn more >>
STOP School Violence Program Competitive Solicitation
Bureau of Justice Assistance
The STOP School Violence Program is designed to improve school safety by providing students, teachers, and staff with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and prevent acts of violence.
With this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to increase school safety by implementing solutions that will improve school climate. Solutions include school-based behavioral threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks among students, technological innovations that are shown to increase school safety such as anonymous reporting technology, and other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: June 12, 2024; JustGrants: June 20, 2024 | Learn more >>
Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Competitive NOFO
Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) initiative makes Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) assistance available to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) in partnership with Public Child Welfare Agencies (PCWAs). Under FYI, PHAs provide housing assistance on behalf of:
Youth at least 18 years and not more than 24 years of age (have not reached their 25th birthday) who left foster care, or will leave foster care within 90 days, in accordance with a transition plan described in Section 475(5)(H) of the Social Security Act, and are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless at age 16 or older.
As required by statute, an FYI voucher issued to such a youth may only be used to provide housing assistance for the youth for a maximum of 36 months unless the youth meets the requirements to receive an extension of assistance under the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities (FSHO) amendments. FSHO provides an FYI youth an extension of the 36-month time limit for up to an additional 24 months if they meet certain requirements.
In addition to providing up to 36 months of rental assistance, the PCWA must provide or secure the youth supportive services to assist the young person on their path to self-sufficiency.
Deadline: June 17, 2024 | Learn more >>
General Departmental Sexual Risk Avoidance Education
Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families' Family and Youth Services Bureau announces the anticipated availability of funds under the General Departmental Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (GDSRAE) Program. The purpose of the GDSRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teach participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The services are targeted to participants that reside in areas with high rates of teen births and/or are at greatest risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The goals of GDSRAE are to empower participants to make healthy decisions, and provide tools and resources to prevent pregnancy, STIs, and youth engagement in other risky behaviors. Successful applicants are expected to submit program plans that agree to: use medically accurate information referenced to peer-reviewed publications by 1) educational, scientific, governmental, or health organizations; 2) implement sexual risk avoidance curricula and/or strategies with an evidence-based approach integrating research findings with practical implementation that aligns with the needs and desired outcomes for the intended audience; and 3) teach the benefits associated with self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention, healthy relationships, goal setting, and resisting sexual coercion, dating violence, and other youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking or illicit drug use without normalizing teen sexual activity.
Deadline: June 24, 2024 | Learn more >>
Competitive Personal Responsibility Education Program
Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families' Family and Youth Services Bureau will be accepting applications from eligible local organizations and entities, including faith-based organizations or consortia, for the development and implementation of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) in states that do not accept FY2024 allocations for State PREP. The purpose of this program is to support projects that educate youth, between the ages of 10 and 19 years, and pregnant and parenting youth under age 21, on abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV/AIDS. Projects are also required to implement at least three of the following six adulthood preparation subjects: healthy relationships, adolescent development, financial literacy, parent-child communication, educational and career success, and healthy life skills. The estimated award amount is based upon FY 2023 funding available for Competitive PREP awards and is subject to change.
Deadline: June 24, 2024 | Learn more >>
Mentoring for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support services for mentoring organizations that specifically work with the children of incarcerated parents (COIP) population. This program supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services for COIP.
OJJDP will fund transformative group, one-on-one, community, or school-based mentoring services that promote family engagement and community connectedness or a combination of these types. Applicants must provide mentoring services to the COIP population 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 program design and support mentoring matches with this population, but it can also support existing mentoring matches through program completion. This program supports the implementation and delivery of COIP mentoring services.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: June 10, 2024; JustGrants: June 24, 2024 | Learn more >>
Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K-12th grade only). The goals of the program are to (1) reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and (2) prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: June 10, 2024; JustGrants: June 24, 2024 | Learn more >>
Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program
Office on Violence Against Women
As people harmed by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking seek expanded options to address the harm they have experienced, communities have continued to strengthen and improve their responses, approaches, and services. One such approach is restorative practices. Restorative practices incorporate an understanding of trauma and are intended to repair and address the harm experienced while providing meaningful accountability for the harm-doer. An effective restorative practices program is completely voluntary for the person harmed, promotes their autonomy, and prioritizes their safety, while promoting meaningful justice, accountability, and community safety.
This Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program is a 60-month funding opportunity seeking to support, strengthen, enhance, and expand existing restorative practice programs that prevent or address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, in accordance with the "restorative practices" definition at 34 U.S.C. § 12514(a)(3), and build evidence for victim-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive restorative practices addressing these harms.
Deadline: June 25, 2024 | Learn more >>
Youth Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks applications for funding to support cross-system collaboration to improve responses and outcomes for youth under the age of 18 or youth under the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system with mental health disorders (MHD) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs) who come in contact with the juvenile justice system. This program supports public safety efforts through partnerships with youth justice, mental health, and substance use agencies to enhance responses to justice-involved youth with MHD and MHSUDs.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: June 18, 2024; JustGrants: July 2, 2024 | Learn more >>
Supportive Effective Interventions for Youth With Problematic or Illegal Sexual Behavior Program
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding to communities to develop intervention and supervision services for youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior, and to provide treatment services for their victims and families/caregivers. Under this initiative, successful applicants are expected to have an established multidisciplinary team that (1) supports a comprehensive holistic approach to treating youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior and (2) provides support services to victims and families/caregivers.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: June 18, 2024; JustGrants: July 2, 2024 | Learn more >>
Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding to communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to help children and their families who are exposed to violence build resilience, restore their safety, heal their social and emotional wounds, and prevent future violence and delinquency. Funding can be used to develop and/or enhance support services for children exposed to violence to reduce the adverse impact of violence on youth, families, and communities, and to help family-serving organizations better recognize and help families at risk for exposure to violence.
Deadline: Grants.Gov: June 24, 2024; JustGrants: July 8, 2024 | Learn more >>
Multistate Mentoring Programs Initiative
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to fund mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for 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 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.
Eligibility
- Category 1: Mentoring Organizations (1 state)
- Category 2: Mentoring Organizations (2 to 10 states)
- Category 3: Mentoring Organizations (11 to 44 states)
Deadline: Grants.Gov: June 24, 2024; JustGrants: July 8, 2024 | Learn more >>
Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education
Administration for Children and Families
The purpose of the Title V Competitive SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. Successful applicants are expected to submit plans for the implementation of sexual risk avoidance education that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity, with a focus on the future health, psychological well-being, and economic success of youth. Applicants must agree to: 1) use medically accurate information referenced to peer-reviewed publications by educational, scientific, governmental, or health organizations; implement an evidence-based approach integrating research findings with practical implementation that aligns with the needs and desired outcomes for the intended audience; and 2) teach the benefits associated with self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention, healthy relationships, goal setting, and resisting sexual coercion, dating violence, and other youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking or illicit drug use without normalizing teen sexual activity. The Title V SRAE legislation requires unambiguous and primary emphasis and context for each of the A-F topics to be addressed in program implementation. Additionally, there is a requirement that messages to youth normalize the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity.
Deadline: July 8, 2024 | Learn more >>
Supporting Tribal Youth: Training and Technical Assistance and Youth Leadership Development
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding for the development and implementation of comprehensive and culturally relevant training and technical assistance designed to support Tribal efforts to create, enhance, and/or sustain programs, services, and supports for youth in Tribal communities.
Funding Categories:
- Category 1: Tribal Youth Resource Center
- Category 2: Tribal Youth Leadership and Partnerships Initiative
- Category 3: State, Local, and Tribal Partnerships To Support Justice-Involved Youth
Deadline: Grants.Gov: July 1, 2024; JustGrants: July 15, 2024 | Learn more >>
Workforce Pathways for Youth Rounds 4 and 5
Department of Labor
The applicant must be a national OST non-profit (501(c)(3)) organization, that proposes to serve youth that have been historically underserved and marginalized. This includes Black, Latino, and Indigenous persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality; in addition to youth with barriers to employment including, but not limited to, foster youth, parenting youth, homeless youth, and youth who are justice impacted. For purposes of this FOA, a national organization is defined as an organization that has affiliates operating in at least three states. Note that while the organization must be a national OST organization, the applicant has the option to select the geographic scope (statewide or multi-state; please refer to section 1.I.B: Program Authority, Geographic Scope) in which it chooses to operate this grant. An OST organization is a non-profit that operates a supervised program that young people regularly attend when school is not in session. This can include before- and after- school programs on a school campus or at facilities located outside of a school campus such as academic programs (e.g., reading or math focused programs), specialty programs (e.g., STEM, arts enrichment), and multipurpose programs that provide an array of activities.Applicants which received funding from the FY 2023 Workforce Pathways for Youth grant [FOA-ETA-23-06] are not eligible to participate in this competition and their applications will be considered non-responsive. Eligibility will be determined based on applicants' Employer Identification Numbers.
Deadline: July 15, 2024 | Learn more >>
Child Welfare Foundation
American Legion
The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation (CWF) accepts grant funding proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects which meet the Foundation's basic purpose: To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children and youth; to aid in research, programs, and activities that benefit the welfare of children and youth. Support is also provided for research aimed at discovering and interpreting facts or revisions of accepted philosophies to create new or revised theories that benefit the welfare of children and youth. Grants must have the potential to help children nationally or at least in a large geographic area. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.
Deadline: July 15, 2024 | Learn more >>
FREE WEBINARS AND TRAININGS
Credible Messenger and Lived Experience Mentoring
National Mentoring Resource Center
June 5, 2024
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Housing-Focused Interventions Across the Continuum
HUD
June 6, 2024
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State of Developmental Assets
Search Institute
June 26, 2024
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Mental Health Peer to Peer Learning
RHYTTAC
June 27, 2024
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Voting While Experiencing Homelessness
National Low Income Housing Coalition
July 1, 2024
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Facilitating Collaborative Meetings
Collective Impact Forum
July 16-17, 2024
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EVENTS
2024 State of the Movement
A Way Home America
June 12-13, 2024
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National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness
Point Source Youth
June 24-26, 2024
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National Wellbeing & Resilience Alliance Conference
The Spark Initiative
October 9-11, 2024
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National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education
National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement
October 21-25, 2024
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JOBS
- Health Services Specialist + Others | Youth Services of Tulsa | Tulsa, OK
- Residential Program Manager + Others | Bridge Over Troubled Waters | Boston, MA
- Match Support Specialist - Bilingual | Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters, Inc. | Lawrence, KS
- Youth and Young Adult Coordinator + Others | Bellefaire JCB | Ohio
- Community Outreach Specialist + Others | Evergreen Youth and Family Services | Bemidji, MN
