Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events November 2024

Funding

Attendance Champions Challenge

Department of Education

The Attendance Champions Challenge aims to elevate the importance of engaging young people in State and local efforts to address chronic absenteeism-an issue that has a direct impact on their academic success. This Challenge invites schools and 501(c)(3) community organizations to engage young people between the ages of 13 and 19 to identify new ways of understanding barriers to school attendance and engagement, as well as propose creative solutions that build on evidence-based strategies. Young people are also invited to directly submit their ideas to the Department. The Department is particularly interested in approaches that engage young people who are disproportionately affected by chronic absenteeism, including students enrolled in alternative education settings, and highly mobile students (e.g., youth experiencing homelessness, foster care, juvenile justice, etc.). There are many ways that entrants can decide to approach this challenge with young people. Below are some examples.

• As part of coursework (e.g., in an English, civics, or psychology class)
• As part of student clubs (e.g., student government, peer leaders)
• Youth participatory action research, a process by which young people investigate and address a problem in their community
• Engaging students on social media
• Youth organizing campaign

Deadline: November 29, 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Free Webinars and Trainings

Cultivating Strategic Partnerships with Funders
GrantStation
December 10, 2024
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Data Visioning Session
National Youth Employment Coalition
December 11, 2024
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Race/Ethnicity and LGBTQ2S+ Youth Part 2: Discussion of Black Girls
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
December 11, 2024
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Conversations with Youth: Youth Townhall Series
MENTOR
December 19, 2024
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Events

National Mentoring Summit
MENTOR
January 29-31, 2025
Washington, DC
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Innovation Summit On Youth Advocacy & Direct Cash Transfers
Point Source Youth
January 14-15, 2025
Portland, OR
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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

• Government Grants Manager & Others | Connections for the Homeless | Evanston, IL
• Student Assistance Program (SAP) Liaison & Others | Centre County Youth Service Bureau | State College, PA
• Grants Writer & Others | Center for Family Services | Camden, NJ
• Mental Health Clinician & Others | New Morning | Placerville, CA
• Business Operations Manager & Others | Big Buddy Program | Baton Rouge, LA