Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events October 2024

Funding

Syringe Services & Community-Based Harm Reduction Program Grants

Comer Family Foundation

Funding supports syringe services programs and community-based harm reduction programs that improve the health and wellness of people who use drugs. These programs provide free sterile syringes, safer smoking and snorting kits, education, and community wraparound services to reduce opioid overdoses and the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis. Eligibility requirements include:

• Organizations with total organizational budgets less than $600,000
• Organizations grounded in harm reduction principle and practice providing access to sterile syringes, safer smoking, and snorting kits, through syringe services and community-based harm reduction (SSPs)
• Syringe services and community-based harm reduction programs must be in operation for one full year

Deadline: November 1, 2024 | Learn more >>

Community Action Grants

American Association of University Women (AAUW) 

AAUW has led the fight for fair pay and economic opportunity for women. It fights to remove the barriers and biases that stand in the way of gender equity. AAUW's General Operating Support Grants for Community Action provide flexible funding to nonprofit organizations whose primary mission focus is promoting education and equity for women and girls in grades K-12. General operating support grants may be used as organizations see fit, and often offer valuable support for advancing a nonprofit organization's mission, sustainability and its ability to innovate. Since 1972, AAUW has provided support to hundreds of communities across the United States through its Community Action Grants.

Deadline: November 15, 2024 | Learn more >>

Community Partnership Challenge

National Partnership for Student Success

The National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) Support Hub at the Everyone Graduates Center will issue awards designed to create, scale, or pilot evidence-based NPSS aligned student supports-tutors, mentors, student success coaches, wraparound/integrated student support coordinators, and/or post-secondary transition coaches-in communities across the country. Additional points will be given to 1) applicants looking to utilize people-powered supports as part of a larger strategy to address chronic absenteeism in their communities and/or 2) applicants engaging high school students in NPSS-aligned roles (e.g. high school students supporting their younger peers as tutors, mentors, etc.). Priority will also be given to applicants who have been proven conveners in their community and can demonstrate the ability to activate networks to address a common goal. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, school districts, city or state agencies, and higher education institutions.

Deadline: November 15, 2024 | Learn more >>

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 >>

Hearst Foundations Grants

The mission of the Hearst Foundations is to identify and fund outstanding nonprofits to ensure that people of all backgrounds in the United States can build healthy, productive and satisfying lives. Through its grantmaking, the Hearst Foundations support well-established nonprofit organizations that address significant issues within their major areas of focus-culture, education, health and social service-and that primarily serve large demographic and/or geographic constituencies. In each area of funding, the Foundations seek to identify those organizations achieving truly differentiated results relative to other organizations making similar efforts for similar populations. The Foundations also look for evidence of sustainability beyond their support.

Deadline: Rolling | Learn more >>

Youth Sports Grants

All Kids Play 

All Kids Play provides funding to families and communities who lack the resources to pay for youth sports. Grants are available to qualifying families with kids in grade K-12 and not-for-profit community-based recreational sports organizations in low income areas on a need and first-come, first served basis as funds are available. Individual grants can be used for registration, equipment and other associated fees for sports classes, recreational leagues, and travel sports.

Deadline: Rolling | Learn more >>

Angel Philanthropy

Smart Family Fund 

Social entrepreneurs often face significant challenges, especially when their initiatives are still in the early stages. Securing funding for innovative but untested ideas can be particularly daunting without extensive performance data to attract large-scale investors. We are a small family foundation guided by three brothers united in their commitment to fostering social entrepreneurship. Our mission is to discover, support, and mentor emerging nonprofit organizations and their leaders, providing the necessary backing to help them succeed. Each year, we make grants, ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. When we find an organization that is making significant advances, we work with them to grow their programs, and get them ready for more significant funders who can support them through the growth phase.

Deadline: Rolling | Learn more >>

Free Webinars and Trainings

Assessing Kin Caregiver Needs to Provide Responsive Services and Support
Generations United
October 30, 2024
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Rural Youth and Adverse Childhood Experiences
National District Attorney's Association
November 6, 2024
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Write Better Proposals using the "Grants Scorecard"
GrantStation
November 6, 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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Rethinking Protection: Ending Systemic Harm Against Native Families
Futures Without Violence
November 14, 2024
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Data Visioning Session
National Youth Employment Coalition
December 11, 2024
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Events

OJJDP National Conference on Youth Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
November 19-21, 2024
Washington, DC
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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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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

• Development Manager & Others | StarVista | San Carlos, CA
• Housing Case Manager & Others | Ozone House Inc. | Ypsilanti, MI
• Social Service Assistant Supervisor & Others | Looking Glass Community Services | Eugene, OR
• Associate Executive Director & Others | Community Access Unlimited | Elizabeth, NJ
• Policy Advocate & Others | Waypoint | Concord, NH