Nonprofit Funding, Jobs, & Events September 2024

Funding

Under Pressure Challenge

Young Futures

Drawing upon learnings from our Youth Listening Tour, partners and experts across the youth wellbeing ecosystem, and in collaboration with the Center for Digital Thriving, the Under Pressure Challenge is a $1 million commitment and open funding call for early-stage organizations and/or solutions focused on alleviating the pressures teen feel growing-up in a tech driven world. The Under Pressure Challenge is sponsored by Pivotal Ventures, the Susan Crown Exchange, and The Goodness Web. It is the second of several high-need thematic challenges that Young Futures will issue over the next few years. All challenges seek to help (pre)teens ages 10-19 thrive in a tech-driven world. Up to 10 grant recipients, aka Young Futures Innovators (YF Innovators), will join the Young Futures Academy, a five-month program designed to help level-up their organization and amplify their impact.

Deadline: October 1, 2024 | Learn more >>

Defending Basic Freedoms Grants

The Herb Block Foundation

The Foundation is committed to defending basic freedoms, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice and improving the condition of the poor and underprivileged. The Defending Basic Freedoms program helps safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in our Bill of Rights, to help eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and to assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public.

Deadline: Letter of Inquiry due on October 2, 2024 | Learn more >>

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 >>

Attendance Champions Challenge

U.S. 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 >>

State and National Grants

AmeriCorps

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 >>

Free Webinars and Trainings

Engaging Youth to Become Change Agents to Combat Identity-Based Bullying and Hate
Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention
September 25, 2024
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Race/Ethnicity and LGBTQ2S+ Youth Webinar
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
September 25, 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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Should I Hire a Grant Professional or Do It Myself? 
GrantStation
October 7, 2024
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Wellness & Resilience in Mentoring
MENTOR
October 17, 2024
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Building Bridges: Creating Effective Cross-System Partnerships for Youth Housing Providers
Youth Collaboratory
October 23, 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

Breaking Barriers: Overcoming Challenges with Evidence-Based Practices
Empower Community Care
October 9-10, 2024
Virtual Summit
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National Wellbeing & Resilience Alliance Conference
The Spark Initiative
October 9-11, 2024
Tampa, FL
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2024 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Conference
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
October 16-17, 2024
Seattle, WA
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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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State of the Movement
A Way Home America
October 23-24, 2024
Dallas, TX
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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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Jobs

• Deputy Director & Others | Janus Youth Programs | Portland, OR
• Grants Director & Others | Center for Family Services | Voorhees, NJ
• Youth Activities and Events Coordinator & Others | Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands | Omaha, NE
• Housing Case Manager & Others | Maslow Project | Medford, OR
• Development Director & Others | YSS | Ames, IA